As citizen participation and participatory governance have become central concepts in the cultural policies at EU level, we are interested in understanding what this entails in practice. While, generally speaking, participation has been deeply scrutinized in political science and public administration literature, how citizens become participants in a process of co-creation of culture, who benefits […]
This paper investigates Participatory Cultural Initiatves (PCIs) and patterns of learning and knowledge sharing among participating actors. We highlight Participatory Cultural Initiatives (PCIs) and their impact on communities, cities, and regions. PCIs create material and immaterial outcomes through the presence of cultural artefacts and the exchange of ideas, thoughts and feelings among participants. In particular, […]
The aim of this paper is to investigate participatory cultural initiatives (PCI) and their impact on communities, cities, and regions. The notion of impact exceeds the notion of outcome insofar, as it includes subjective feelings and joint intuitions. PCIs create material and immaterial outcomes through two crucial inputs: human creativity and human intellectual activity. In […]