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Culturefighter in Kosice
"Culturefighter is a project of the Košice-based independent film company partizanfilm and urban advocate NGO Východné pobrežie, which started out with a curiosity about the experience with large cultural initiatives and culture-led regeneration programmes after Kosice became the European Capital of Culture 2013"
They wished to overcome obstacles when trying to find out what happened in other ECoC cities. Realizing this entails coverage of "a wide-range of different experiences", they created a database of experiences themselves.
Method:
- in-depth interviews, each focussing on a concrete case study, find out and map the experiences made by concrete cultural initiatives in a variety of places.
- the database freely is available to the public i.e. "serves as an interactive textbook for anyone wanting to implement their ideas in the creative field."
Culturefighter wishes to find out more about:
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the concrete effects cultural initiatives, cultural policies and the creative industries have had on concrete places in Europe
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the impacts of cultural and culture-led regeneration projects (such as the European Capital of Culture as well as smaller scale grassroots initiatives)
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the factors that influenced these impacts
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the positive and critical assessments of these impacts by practitioners
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the importance of culture in the lives of European cities and regions and their people, and
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the rationale for public and private investments in culture and creativity.
"Culturefighter explores these issues through interviews with practitioners, activists, researchers, academics, and policy advisors, focussing on concrete examples of practices from a variety of environments (e.g. Western and Eastern Europe, large and small cities etc)."
"Culturefighter produces original content in a variety of media (video, audio and text)."
The website has following list of contents:
http://www.culturefighter.eu/about
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