2003-06-13
Cultural Commons
On June 2, 2003, the Center for Arts and Culture launched the Cultural Commons, an online space for networking, information exchange, community building and issue identification in cultural policy.
The Center's experience with its Cultural Policy Network and its Cultural Policy Listserv has illuminated a continuing communications divide between researchers and practitioners. The Cultural Commons is designed as a web space through which different kinds of information and data can be sorted and accessed: news, events, opportunities within the field, and research.
The Center's experience with its Cultural Policy Network and its Cultural Policy Listserv has illuminated a continuing communications divide between researchers and practitioners. The Cultural Commons is designed as a web space through which different kinds of information and data can be sorted and accessed: news, events, opportunities within the field, and research.
The Center began to form its Cultural Policy Network in 1998, with the support of the Ford Foundation, and later, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. This initial foray into community building provided valuable lessons about the kinds of information the field of cultural policy deemed important and relevant for its work. Through its Cultural Policy Network and the simultaneous independent development of sites of study at colleges and universities across the country, cultural policy research networks are better established than they were when the Center was founded. A list of current members of the Network and other academic sites will be a core part of the new Cultural Commons.
There are no comments for this content yet.
