Lublin 2016 – Appendix - Kultura Enter

Methodologies for ECC project
methodology
THREE GENERAL ASPECTS WILL BE HIGHLIGHTED IN OUR THINKING ABOUT THE
PROJECTS’ DEVELOPMENT:
• Cultural production has been given priority over the mass import of cultural commodities – this
concerns both local artists and famous international practitioners invited to Lublin to cooperate and
partner with local artists and communities.
• Cultural participation is expected to increase but it will also be accompanied by the growth of cultural
competence and knowledge. Ambitious cultural programmes sometimes overestimate the existing
interest and the absorption capacity of local communities. In other cases, cultural producers focus
solely on their own creative processes at the expense of audiences. Hence, we recognise the importance
of cultural education for the public, which will foster the development of cultural competence
and interest in culture.
• Resource activation requires the ongoing training of managers and other culture professionals who
will organise the sale of cultural commodities, foster the development of the art market, cultivate
partnerships with the private sector, develop ambitious cultural tourism, and pursue a strategy
of cultural export.
LTG management
LTG organise their work and select their team independently. The structure or the rules are not imposed
but should be defined and published.
LTG turn projects into programmes developing activities for the years 2011-2015, culmination in 2016,
and continuation after 2020.
The programmes are created in close cooperation with culture operators and individuals (not only from
Lublin and the region)
Special attention should be paid to interdisciplinary projects that merge themes of the application and
require cooperation between LTGs
• participation in projects created by specialists, scholars, and university teachers (Culture of Knowledge
Laboratory)
• international cooperation and exchange (Facing East Laboratory – Eastern Partnership and Russia,
cooperation with Spain)
• interregional cooperation (the region, Eastern Poland, Poland) – participation of cultural operators
from the region; sharing the project, artists and drivers with cities, towns and villages in the region
(City and Region Laboratory)
• remembrance and anticipation in projects of other LTGs
• emphasis placed on cultural education and social communication
• projects addressed to given social groups (senior citizens, disabled, students, discriminated, excluded)
• students’ participation in LTG
• participation of the representatives of business, law, administration, sport, recreation, tourism and
other groups
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