On December 15th, Italian urban and cultural practitioners, as well as economic academics, gathered together online to participate in the DISCE workshop “Institutionalizing culture-led urban regeneration: risks and potentials for policy-makers and cultural practitioners”. The event was joined by Francesco Campagnari (Researcher, Trans Europe Halles), Silvia Tagliazucchi (Urban regeneration officer, Ovestlab and Lo stato dei Continue Reading
On December 10th, the city of Nicosia, Cyprus, welcomed the DISCE workshop “A way forward: Cultural Policies for shifting gear or shifting ground?”. Within the context of DISCE, NiMAC – Nicosia Municipal Arts Center presented a panel discussion joined by Yiannis Toumazis (Director of NiMAC and Professor in Art History and Theory at Frederick University), Continue Reading
In the context of the DISCE project, our partner Trans Europe Halles is launching a new initiative, The DISCE P2P Recovery Programme (PRP), to support the European cultural and creative sectors in this time of unprecedented challenge due to Covid 19. PRP is designed to engage with stakeholders within Cultural and Creative Industries coherently with Continue Reading
Even if physical meetings are still limited, the DISCE team aims to be close to our Cultural and Creative Economy stakeholders and to create opportunities to come together, discuss experiences and find solutions to current challenges. That’s why we are planning 3 national workshops in Cyprus, Italy and Spain. In December, we’ll have the possibility Continue Reading
New research by DISCE is now available on our site! The DISCE first policy brief “Managing Creative Economies as Cultural Eco-Systems” is touching upon the issues creative sector has to face during the COVID-19 crisis for the first time as well as those being exposed by the pandemic. The central problem addressed in this brief, Continue Reading
Tamsyn Dent, King’s College London What do we mean by ‘who cares’? “But remember that words are signals, counters. They are not immortal” (Brian Friel, Translations, 1980) Working on a collaborative research project that involves partners from across Europe including Spain, Italy, Finland, the UK, Latvia, Sweden, Turkey and beyond, New Zealand and Jamaica, who Continue Reading
In the first of our DISCE Webinars Dr. Roberta Comunian, DISCE researcher, presented some of her work (with colleague Dr. Lauren England at King’s College London) on the impact of Covid-19 on creative and cultural workers. The article “Creative and cultural work without filters: Covid-19 and exposed precarity in the creative economy” has now been Continue Reading
DISCE researcher Dr Roberta Comunian (Comunian et al. 2020) with co-authors at King’s College and Nanyang Technological University Singapore has recently collaborated on a special issue of the Social Enterprise Journal on “Social Enterprises, Social Innovation and the Creative Economy.” Their editorial (available to read and download via open access from the Social Enterprise Journal) is provocatively entitled “The Continue Reading
CUMEDIAE and Trans Europe Halles, partners of the DISCE Consortium, are organising a webinar series (2 episodes) on the current and immediate state of creative economies in the context of COVID-19 crisis. We will be exploring with CCI´s stakeholders how does COVID-19 affect the creative economies in the EU and how can we thrive through Continue Reading
As we prepare to celebrate the International Workers’ Day (for some Labour or May Day) on the 1 st of May, an international celebration of people in waged labour and working classes, DISCE launches a new survey across Europe asking the important question of Who cares about creative and cultural workers in Europe? Researching for Continue Reading