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COST IS 007 Investigating Cultural Sustainability (2011-2015)
European research network: Not a research project, but allows co-ordination of nationally funded research activities in the field
24 European COST – countries, Australia, New Zealand, Canada
90 members from variety of diciplines: sociology, anthropology, geography, environmental studies, policy, tourism, arts, museum and cultural studies, communication and media studies, philosophy
COST action Chair: Dr. Katriina Soini, Jyväskylä University, Finland
What are the main aims of the action? Approaches, methodological challenges,
working methods Activities and outputs Bulgarian Participation in the COST Action:
challenges and lessons
Aims
Aims to explore:
What does culture mean in sustainable development?
How to incorporate culture in sustainable development framework and policies?
How to assess the impact of culture in sustainable development?
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Mailstones of the Action2011-
• Inventory and mapping
2012-
• Analysis and comparisons
2013-
• Synthesis
2014-
• Recommendations
2015
• New collaborative research projects
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Clustering of thematic fields
HeritageGovernanceHuman-natureTerritorial development Arts, creativity and events Tourism Theories and conceptsParticipation MobilityMethodologiesEducationPlanningOthers
I Arts and creativity
II Heritage, memory and identity
III Place-based developoment
IV Human-Nature Interface
”Keywords”
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”Arts and creativity”
”Heritage, memory
and identity”
”Place-based
approaches”
”Human-nature
interface”
WGs, other small groups established during the Action
Thematic working spaces , ”laboratories”
mapping and
analysing....
analysing and
summarizing
Networking and mapping
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WGs, clusters, interactive exercises ”Who’s who” -book,
Joint research papers
Thematic books
Joint research papers
A theoretical bookPolicy
recommendations
Curriculums Joint
research projects
WORKING FORM WORKING FORUMS OUTPUTS
Academic discourse on cultural sustainability
Cultural sustainabilit
y
Conservative
Heritage
Cultural vitality
Neoliberalist
Economic viability
Communitarian
Diversity
Locality
Environmental
Eco-cultural resilience
Cultural evolution
Storylines
Contexts
Soini, K. & Birkeland, I. 2013. Exploring the scientific discourse on cultural sustainability. A paper to be published in Geoforum.
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I Selfstanding: Culture as a fourth pillar of sustainability
Ecological
Social
Cultural
Economic
Cultural aspects need to be considered in addition to the ecological, social and economic ones, in order to achieve sustainability.
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II Transversal: Culture as an instrument in sustainable development
Culture is not only an additional aspect, but its role is intermediating between the various dimensions of sustainability. I.e. culture drives, processes and translates the drawbacks and benefits of ecological, economic and social development.
economic
social
ecological
Culture
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III Fundamental: Culture as a new paradigm of sustainability
Cultural transition or “eco-cultural civilzation” is needed to achieve more sustainable society.
Sustainable Culture
Economic
Social
Ecological
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List of main Activities
Workshops or conferences (2 per year) Research Exchange (4-6 Shot term scientific missions – STSMs - in the
year) Training School(s)
Place-based approaches in regional development, Ghent, February, 10-14, 2014
A cutting edge research event: The Cultural Dimension of Sustainable Development on the European Research Agenda, Brussels 14 November
Working groups and Panels in Conferences, e.g. International Conference of Cultural Policy, Barcelona 2012 International Conference of Tourism, 2013 European Society for Rural Sociology, Firenze, 2013 International Conference of Cultural Memory , Skopje 2013
National workshops and publication activities
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List of main outputs
Book series ”Culture, sustainability and development” (working title) published by Routledge (TBC) Four thematic books Three books in ”pipeline”
”White paper”: summary of the results International Master Course in Cultural Policy Special issue in International Journal of
Cultural Policy Research Strategy Joint research papers
Bulgarian participation in COST actions: challenges and lessons
The art of international networking The challenge for mobilization of the national
resources Cutting-edge knowledge and professional
expertise English proficiency Logistical capacities Institutional support: the capacity for
cooperative action at international and national level – how many joint papers; how many interuniversity projects and university consortiums; how many partnerships with local NGOs, local authorities and local businesses?
The main challenge: the culture of joint action
Innovation scoreboard 2013; the decline of Bulgaria innovation performance most dramatic after launching the
Strategy Europe 2020 – with -18.7%.
Progress since the launch of the Europe 2020 strategy
Country groups: innovation performance per dimension
Bulgarian inputs Imagining Europolis: Roles of Culture for
a Sustainable Urban Future (TBC)Editors: Svetlana Hristova, Milena Dragicevic-Sesic, Nancy Duxbury
The Sustainable City – Sofia, February 2015
