Get all the knowledge you need to keep yourself up-to-date on sustainable cultural policymaking, if you were not able to attend the 2022 Academy in person!
The 2022 ENCATC Academy on sustainable cultural policy and management is available in digital version, with a highly instructive programme addressing some of the biggest environmental and social problems of our day. ENCATC has been creating and delivering academies for over 10 years, in collaboration with Goldsmiths, University of London, pioneers in cultural relations policy, and alongside local partners.
In this year’s Academy, a varied programme of lectures, seminars, and specialized discussions with academics, cultural operators, and policy makers aimed at tackling common challenges and creating new and innovative approaches to sustainability in the cultural sector. . The 2022 ENCATC Online Academy with podcasts and video lectures includes:
By ordering this year's academy digital pack, you will enhance your knowledge and learn extensively about sustainability that was put at the very heart of ENCATC's core knowledge-sharing engagements. You will get the latest updates in the field of cultural policy and evidence-based knowledge, highlighting both the theoretical and the practical aspects of a blueprint for environmentally responsible cultural policy-making.
If you want to obtain the 2022 ENCATC Academy in digital format, click here to order.
All the lectures of this digital kit were held from 27 April 2022 to 30 April 2022 in Centrumanagement Maastricht/ Culura Mosae Premises and at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) at Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Here is a detailed outline of the content you will obtain by ordering:
Welcome and official opening of the Academy by Gerald Lidstone (Video lecture)
ENCATC Academy welcoming and opening remarks by Gerald Lidstone, ENCATC President, Director of the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE), Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
Lecture on cultural policy and climate change by Iphigenia Taxopoulou, founding member and General Secretary of the European theatre network mitos21 (Video lecture)
Overview of cultural policies that have incorporated climate concerns, with a particular focus on the exemplar environmental sustainability programme of the Arts Council England and its outcomes after ten years of implementation.
Lecture on sustainable cultural management of museums by Kathy Hopkin, Climate Change and Sustainability Specialist for Museums at Julie's Bicycle (Video lecture)
This lecture aims at understanding and recognizing the interconnectivity of all three pillars of sustainability, establishing culture's role in sustainability from a social lens, learning about how we as individual can make a difference for our audiences, communities, and society, and seeing how social sustainability supports climate action.
Case study Ki Culture by Caitlin Southwick, Founder of Ki Culture (Video lecture)
Through the examination of the critical assessment of the environmental impact of professional practices in the field of culture from which the Ki Culture initiative stemmed, a portrait is painted of how can sustainability empower and revitalize cultural management and cultural projects, for a stronger resilience in the face of the environmental and societal challenges of today and tomorrow.
Heritage as a driving force of sustainable development and the topic of neutrality by Maaike de Jong, Assistant Professor in Cultural Entrepreneurship at the University of Groningen's Center of Religion and Heritage (Video lecture)
This lecture is a case study of Veenhuizen, a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe that was transformed in the 19th century into a residential colony for the disadvantaged and poorest categories. A good way to understand how the management of heritage with a care for sustainability involves a very wide array of topics and competences ranging from creativity to dialogue and negotiation, showing how neutrality is a challenging matter in heritage management.
Lecture on sustainable cultural tourism by Michael Parnwell, Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds (Video lecture)
This lecture explores the relationship between sustainable development policy and cultural tourism, offering an understanding of the opportunities and benefits from cultural tourism for sustainable development, the threats of overtourism and climate change, and policy avenues for mitigation and adaptation to ensure a model of sustainable cultural tourism.
Lecture Cultural heritage and cultural neutrality by Catherine Bottrill, Associate Expert at Julie's Bicycle (Video lecture)
This lecture shares the sustainability journey of Blenheim Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which declared a climate emergency in 2019 and committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2027. From this case, Catherine Bottrill shares the learnings and insights on how cultural organisations can get started in taking climate and environmental action.
International cultural relations and climate change by Aimee Fullman, Founder of Meaningful Engagement, Intl. (Video lecture)
This lecture explores how cultural relations is an underutilised resource in addressing the climate emergency, and how organisations having cultural relations as part of their mission and/or activities have an important part to play. Lines of action developing the use cultural engagement for participation in climate action are explored, focusing on the greening of cultural relations organizations, diversifying cultural engagement interventions, elevating programme evaluations and learning by design.
A series of 5 audio podcasts comes with the Academy pack. The goal of these podcasts is to give its listeners the possibility to learn how become a changemaker for a sustainable future through a day-to-day professional practice in the cultural field. In this podcast series you can hear European leaders working in the broad field of culture present their work, their experience, their solutions to the current challenges and how they have used their digital, managerial and green skills in innovative ways, and thus to ensure a greener future.
The podcasts feature the following speakers: