PILLAR 1: INTRODUCTION TO PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE
Description
LECTURES
19. 9. / 10 – 11:30 h
Pascal Gielen — Commoning Politics: Art, Civil Action and the Aesthetics of Vulnerability
22. 9. / 10 – 11:30 h
Natalija Majsova — Cultural Policies & the Implications of Thinking in Terms of Creative Participation
PANEL DISCUSSION
21. 9. / 17:15 – 18:45 h
Katarina Pavić — Advocacy in the field of participatory governance in culture
READING GROUP
20. 9. / 12 – 13:30 h
Tihana Pupovac — Democracy, Participation, Institutions
PILLAR 2: DEMOCRATIZATION OF CULTURAL PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE: PUBLIC GOODS / COMMONS
Current concentration of economic power directly linked to the concentration of political power demands the creation of new forms of organization and governance which would ensure the radical democratisation of society in all spheres. In this respect, the progressive forces in the region should focus on the experiments and the initiatives that shift the balance of power and make a path for much-needed transformation that would democratise control over public resources and offer alternatives to further privatization and commodification of public goods. Thus, the main focus of this pillar will be in discussing/rethinking perspectives for the democratization of the cultural infrastructures by establishing new forms of governance models based on the participatory principles and the discourse of commons. The aim is to strive for a new understanding of commons based cultural infrastructure and to support the emergence of the initiatives and practices that use the power of culture to revitalize democracy.
LECTURES
19. 9. / 16 – 17:30 h
Dea Vidović — Democracy and Cultural Policy
19. 9. / 12 – 13:30 h
Iva Čukić — Democratization of cultural public infrastructures: Urban Commons
PANEL DISCUSSION
23. 9. / 10 – 11:30 h
Valeria Graziano — Autonomous Centers
READING GROUPS
20. 9. / 12 – 13:30 h
Valeria Graziano — Commons
20. 9. / 12 – 13:30 h
Katarina Pavić — Decentralised Internationalism and Horizontalism
PILLAR 3: PRACTICES OF CIVIC-PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE
Civic-public partnership represents a joint and collaborative effort and dialogue between the public and civil sector with the aim to implement a more quality, effective and efficient management of public resources in relation to conventional, traditional approaches. By sharing governing responsibilities and by creating meaningful partnerships and connections between the civil and public sector, a new model of structuring and organizing the use of public spaces is being established. This is particularly important in Southeast Europe countries that have largely seen a very poor transition between two political systems that left public resources (old military complexes, old/run down hospital buildings, abandoned factories, brownfields etc.) either badly managed/mismanaged, given to private actors who closed those resources off for further public use or gained access to them via clientelistic and/or corruptive practices. This is why public-civil partnership, one that ensures transparent and quality governance of public infrastructure is of vital importance in SEE.
LECTURE
20. 9. / 10 – 11:30 h
Željka Tonković — Practices of civic-public partnerships in Southeast Europe
PANEL DISCUSSION
20. 9. / 15 – 16:30 h
Davor Mišković — Civic-public partnerships: Presentation of cultural centers JADRO, POGON and ANIBAR
READING GROUP
20. 9. / 12 – 13:30 h
Matija Mrakovčić — Civic-public partnerships
PILLAR 1: INTRODUCTION TO PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE
Description
LECTURES
19. 9. / 10 – 11:30 h
Pascal Gielen — Commoning Politics: Art, Civil Action and the Aesthetics of Vulnerability
22. 9. / 10 – 11:30 h
Natalija Majsova — Cultural Policies & the Implications of Thinking in Terms of Creative Participation
PANEL DISCUSSION
21. 9. / 17:15 – 18:45 h
Katarina Pavić — Advocacy in the field of participatory governance in culture
READING GROUP
20. 9. / 12 – 13:30 h
Tihana Pupovac — Democracy, Participation, Institutions
PILLAR 2: DEMOCRATIZATION OF CULTURAL PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE: PUBLIC GOODS / COMMONS
Current concentration of economic power directly linked to the concentration of political power demands the creation of new forms of organization and governance which would ensure the radical democratisation of society in all spheres. In this respect, the progressive forces in the region should focus on the experiments and the initiatives that shift the balance of power and make a path for much-needed transformation that would democratise control over public resources and offer alternatives to further privatization and commodification of public goods. Thus, the main focus of this pillar will be in discussing/rethinking perspectives for the democratization of the cultural infrastructures by establishing new forms of governance models based on the participatory principles and the discourse of commons. The aim is to strive for a new understanding of commons based cultural infrastructure and to support the emergence of the initiatives and practices that use the power of culture to revitalize democracy.
LECTURES
19. 9. / 16 – 17:30 h
Dea Vidović — Democracy and Cultural Policy
19. 9. / 12 – 13:30 h
Iva Čukić — Democratization of cultural public infrastructures: Urban Commons
PANEL DISCUSSION
23. 9. / 10 – 11:30 h
Valeria Graziano — Autonomous Centers
READING GROUPS
20. 9. / 12 – 13:30 h
Valeria Graziano — Commons
20. 9. / 12 – 13:30 h
Katarina Pavić — Decentralised Internationalism and Horizontalism
PILLAR 3: PRACTICES OF CIVIC-PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE
Civic-public partnership represents a joint and collaborative effort and dialogue between the public and civil sector with the aim to implement a more quality, effective and efficient management of public resources in relation to conventional, traditional approaches. By sharing governing responsibilities and by creating meaningful partnerships and connections between the civil and public sector, a new model of structuring and organizing the use of public spaces is being established. This is particularly important in Southeast Europe countries that have largely seen a very poor transition between two political systems that left public resources (old military complexes, old/run down hospital buildings, abandoned factories, brownfields etc.) either badly managed/mismanaged, given to private actors who closed those resources off for further public use or gained access to them via clientelistic and/or corruptive practices. This is why public-civil partnership, one that ensures transparent and quality governance of public infrastructure is of vital importance in SEE.
LECTURE
20. 9. / 10 – 11:30 h
Željka Tonković — Practices of civic-public partnerships in Southeast Europe
PANEL DISCUSSION
20. 9. / 15 – 16:30 h
Davor Mišković — Civic-public partnerships: Presentation of cultural centers JADRO, POGON and ANIBAR
READING GROUP
20. 9. / 12 – 13:30 h
Matija Mrakovčić — Civic-public partnerships
MONDAY, 19 / 9 / 2022
LECTURE — DVORANA OHRID / 10 – 11:30 H
PASCAL GIELEN
Commoning Politics: Art, Civil Action and the Aesthetics of Vulnerability
Since the financial crisis started at the end of 2007 a lot of governments do budget cuts in the cultural and artistic field. Inspired by the critical social theory of Herbert Marcuse (1964), these policy decisions are understood within an ideological framework as ‘repressive liberalism’. That is a (cultural) politics that on the one hand proclaims individual freedom, stimulates cultural entrepreneurship and embraces the creative city, but on the other hand develops a large-scale decentralized control apparatus that strongly restricts individual and artistic freedom. Within this cultural policy creative labor itself can also be ‘instrumentalized’ as a repressive tool. In his lecture Pascal Gielen analyses the relationship between art, politics and the public space in the creative city. He also looks at how activists and creative ‘workers’ respond to this policy by organizing themselves in alternative, ‘commoning’ ways based on an aesthetics of ambiguity and universal vulnerability. The lecture will be based on Gielen’s books ‘The Art of Civil Action’, ‘Interrupting the City’, ‘Commonism’ and ‘The Aesthetics of Ambiguity’.
LECTURE — DVORANA OHRID / 12 – 13:30 H
IVA ČUKIĆ
Democratization of cultural public infrastructures: Urban Commons
This lecture will address both the theoretical and empirical position of urban commons emphasizing the concept of democratization of cultural public infrastructures. It will put forward the theoretical and interpretive framework that stems from the critical theory of the commons, which built further on Elinor Ostrom’s work (1990), and embedded the concept of the commons into a wider socio-economic context, producing normative criteria that politicize this form of collective ownership, use and governance – fair access, sustainable use and collective control. Rather than romanticizing the concept, the presentation will address the powerful political paradigm of urban commons through the particular cases, addressing the issues of collectivity, governance, inclusion/exclusion, power and political values and principles.
LECTURE — DVORANA OHRID / 16 – 17:30 H
DEA VIDOVIĆ
Democracy and Cultural Policy
The rhetoric of contemporary cultural policy implies the role of culture as the foundation of an open and democratic society. But opposite to this proclamation, cultural policy adjustments to structurally sustaining this claim of openness and democracy are out of balance. Namely, the principles of democracy are present as a part of the horizon but they are not positioned at the centre of our cultural policy realities and policy implementation. Therefore, in cultural policy practice there is a chronic lack of absorption of a whole spectrum of voices as well as normative opportunities for anticipation of new systemic and institutional frameworks for artistic and cultural practices that can be opposed to dominant cultural development paradigm characterised by a rigid, bureaucratic and hierarchical form of organisation that are built on discrimination. This lecture will focus on the relation between democracy and cultural policy and explore cultural policy (with Croatian examples) that could sustain and support democracy through more open, flexible, socially responsive and inclusive policy structures and governance schemes in culture.
PRESENTATION — DVORANA OHRID / 17:45 – 19:15 H
MARIJA KRNIĆ ~ moderator
TIHANA PUPOVAC ~ speaker
VULLNET SANAJA ~ speaker
SOURCE BOOK I: HOW TO BUILD NETWORKS AND WHY?
From Resilience towards Sustainability
From the 1990s onwards the cultural space of the former Yugoslavia, specifically, its independent cultural sector, has been making a significant contribution to the development of collaborative practices and to the overall understanding of participation and organising. While since the 1980s there has been a strong development of networking practices in the broad European cultural space, and much has been written about this phenomenon from different perspectives, the phenomenon of networking and organising in the territory of the former Yugoslavia has remained under-researched. This summer, Koperativa has, together with partners, published the book entitled HOW TO BUILD NETWORKS AND WHY?: From Resistance to Sustainability, the publication which represents a significant contribution to the inclusion of often neglected Yugoslav experiences and practices of networking, cooperation, and horizontal organising to our knowledge of contemporary networking practices. The publication of the book is an occasion for a conversation on the networks and models of organising with Vullnet Sanaja, the member of the book’s editorial team and Tihana Pupovac, the coordinator of Kooperativa. The discussion will be moderated by Marija Krnić.
TUESDAY, 20 / 9 / 2022
LECTURE — DVORANA OHRID / 10 – 11:30 H
ŽELJKA TONKOVIĆ
Practices of civic-public partnerships in Southeast Europe
Participatory governance models and civic-public partnership are increasingly changing the cultural landscape of cities across Southeast Europe. Initiated by collective action and based on different models of partnership with local authorities, socio-cultural centres are becoming key actors who encourage changes in established models of cultural policy. This lecture will give an overview of the existing situations, focusing on the selected examples of socio-cultural centres at different levels of development. Drawing on the rich tradition of sociological research, the lecture will also tackle the issue of cultural participation and inequalities in access to culture. In this perspective, a special emphasis will be given to the importance of innovative approaches to programming and governance in culture and their role in fostering community engagement and building inclusive society in a post-pandemic world.
READING GROUP I — DVORANA OHRID / 12 – 13:30 H
TIHANA PUPOVAC
Democracy, Participation, Institutions
Drawing on the work of French philosopher Jacques Ranciere and his famous statement that „democracy cannot be institutionalised“ we will approach the question of participatory governance from the point of view radical democratic transformation of the concept of institutions. Progressive social movements seldom fail in their attempt to maintain open non-hierarchical governance once they establish or take over institutions. At the same time if they do succeed in establishing non-hierarchical procedures of governance they seldom do not stand the test of time. Why is this? And what do the internal aporias of the process of institutionalisation of progressive movements teach us about the nature of governance and democracy? These are some of the questions we will set off with in our investigation through international and local examples of autonomous, horizontal and community led institutions.
READING GROUP II — DVORANA OHRID / 12 – 13:30 H
VALERIA GRAZIANO
Commons
The concept of the commons has become a key category of contemporary political discourse, opposing both the market logic of enclosure, extraction and commodification, and the top-down bureaucratisation of the state. Acts of commoning have been crucial to emerging political imaginaries and formations in the face of the global economic, political, and climatic crises. Taken together, commoning & the commons offer a potent paradigm to communities, cultural workers and broader social networks to develop tools for both a democratic self-governance, reciprocal care and a shared management of resources. In this reading group, we will depart from Massimo De Angelis’ recent text ‘The Strategic Horizon on the Commons’ (2019) to look at some of the most influential theories of the commons that emerged in the last decades and to activate these perspectives for transforming our organising practices.
READING GROUP III — DVORANA OHRID / 12 – 13:30 H
KATARINA PAVIĆ
Decentralised Internationalism and Horizontalism
Mark Fisher (1968 – 2017) theorist and writer was an indispensable influence in contemporary British culture, noted for his threading between cultural and political critique tackling erosion of class solidarity, relentless commodification of culture, privatisation of mental stress and lack of better future for the forthcoming generations. Equally melancholic and witty Fisher’s writings involved literary, film and music essays and commentaries that will remain relevant in years to come. Possibly less familiar were Fisher’s musings on organising in the cultural and political field, where he concentrated on questions of effective alternatives to global dominance of neoliberal orthodoxy.
For this occasion we shall read two short Fisher’s texts: in Peripheral Proposals (2013) co-published with Nina Möntmann authors discuss potential of decentralised internationalism of independent cultural organisations. In Some Misgivings About Horizontalism (2013) Fisher discusses problems of authority in organisation, pitfalls of horizontalist organisational structures and possible advantages of adopting elements of hegemonic institutional struggle.
READING GROUP IV — DVORANA OHRID / 12 – 13:30 H
MATIJA MRAKOVČIĆ
Civil-public partnerships
Public-civic partnerships represent a new hybrid form of institutional arrangements wherein the democratic agency of citizens is coupled with the institutional stability of public administration. Depending on their selection of proposed literature, participants of the Reading group will prepare a brief report on the possibilities and challenges that different practices of public-civic partnerships impose on their stakeholders. Reports will be presented in a wider forum through a moderated discussion.
PANEL DISCUSSION — DVORANA OHRID / 15 – 16:30 H
DAVOR MIŠKOVIĆ ~ moderator
VULLNET SANAJA ~ panelist
JANJA SESAR ~ panelist
JANA KOCEVSKA ~ panelist
Civil-public partnerships
Civil-public partnerships cannot be simply codified, but the basic idea evolves depending on the circumstances. The basic idea is the joint management of civil and public actors over certain resources, usually space. Circumstances that affect the kind of partnership that will develop depend on the managed resources, the legal framework, the capacities and density of civil actors, as well as the capacities of the public administration. That is why in practice we have different forms of civil-public partnership, which we will discuss with the panelists who implement them in practice.
WEDNESDAY, 21 / 9 / 2022
WORKSHOP I — DVORANA OHRID / 15 – 17 H
ISKRA SUKAROVA
NDA Advocacy methodology
Nomad Dance Advocates is meant to be a gathering of artists and policy and decision makers where they can communicate and exchange experiences in a different, more direct and positive way. The idea behind this is to show the world of contemporary dance to the decision makers from a different perspective. Through the performative and less formal communication and discussions, games and art works, the representatives of ministries of culture, city administrations and other decision making bodies encounter artists, discover the world behind the stage and get a better insight into the potentials of contemporary dance in today’s cultural scape.
Since 2012 Nomad Dance Advocates have met in Skopje, Sofia, Belgrade and Ljubljana. Every gathering engaged all the participants and guests into imagining the future where dance would not be an incident, but a social practice which brings people together and creates space in which we can understand and support each other.
Important part of it is the physical – dance training that helps the participants who are not familiar with dance to understand this practice better, to reconnect with their bodies and minds and to forget about their roles as politicians, representatives, delegates, officials…. The goal is to make them all be equal people who are happy to be together and exchange their knowledge so that these encounters bring beneficial fruits for the dance sector.
The physical part of the workshop will consist of a warm up, after which we will use improvisational methods to interact as a group with each other in the space we inhabit. We will work in groups and then demonstrate the physical outcomes of the improvisational tasks. The aim of the practical workshop is to focus on everyday movement vocabulary and personal dynamic qualities that we can analyse and use for further physical investigation within in our bodies in relation to the space.
WORKSHOP II — DVORANA OHRID / 15 – 17 H
AJETE KËRQELI & NITA ZEQIRI
Employing arts and culture in advocacy processes
This workshop session will explore a variety of steps essential to the practice of everyday cultural activism with particular focus in public spaces. It will provide the fundamentals necessary to kick-start advocacy practices employing arts and culture in order to create inclusive public spaces that in turn lead to social change. Throughout the working sessions we will explore arts and culture practices that engage citizens of all genders in public life through meaningful participation opportunities and develop partnerships that expand the community’s participation in the public life as well as work with central and local public institutions and organizations to create synergies for shared priorities.
WORKSHOP III — DVORANA OHRID / 15 – 17 H
NIKA KOVAČ
Grassroots campaigning: case study of water referendum, go out and
vote and yes means yes campaign
How to do campaigning without money and resources? Through the analysis of three case studies (water referendum, go out and vote and yes means yes campaign) we will tackle the importance of language, personal life testimonies and maintaining a progressive agenda in campaigning.
We will find the answers through the following questions:
~ How to mobilize your volunteers?
~ How to work with the media?
~ What are the secrets of crowdfunding?
~ How to increase democratic participation?
~ What are the biggest mistakes we made in our campaigns?
WORKSHOP IV — DVORANA OHRID / 16 H
IVAN MERCH
The Art of Protest: Werking on Countercultural Transformation
Most societies honour their living conformists and their dead troublemakers. It would be cool to find ways of dissenting, resisting and paving the way towards new futures, and not be fucked over and marginalised by dominant oppressor culture, right?
A mature counterculture understands that we shape our tools and in turn they shape us. Therefore the ways in which we organise, the ways in which we live and work and love are all advocating a political perspective. Embodied role-modeling alongside creative campaigning. We birth new cultures by living them out authentically, and culture eats strategy for breakfast. Planning, intentions, metrics are all secondary to the vibes with which imbue our communities. And art is an amplifier. Of values and ambitions and the collective zeitgeist. Installations, radio shows, murals, movies, community lunches, street demos – what it all boils down to is stories being showcased in different forms and ‘form follows function’.
This participatory werkshop invites you to explore ways in which art can be used to channel ideas from the sidelines into the mainstream, but also how protest and political organising can be elevated into an artform. We are living through an age where paradox is ever more obvious. The hurrier we go, the behinder we get. So we slow down to savour the process of artistic activism and find which media can support us in imagining and building radically different realities.
Time to werk the system, sisters.
The medium is still the message.
PANEL SESSION — DVORANA OHRID / 17:15 – 18:45 H
KATARINA PAVIĆ ~ moderator
MARIE LE SOURD ~ panelist
INGA REMETA ~ panelist
MIRELA TRAVAR ~ panelist
Advocacy in the field of participatory governance in culture
Context in which cultural workers operate is completely invisible and at the same time rather complex. Yet, more than just occasionally advocacy as a topic gets entangled in schematic and naive simplifications of dialoguing with the institutions without real ambitions to touch up on the intricacies that are the real deal such as the contentious political struggles and cultural wars, realistic timelines of events that sometimes extend over decades of hard work with little tangible results. Finally, potentially the most difficult question: how to ensure that we have not omitted important pieces of the puzzle while trying to push for change and thus contributing to the exacerbation of already dire conditions in which many in society live, including artists and cultural workers.
THURSDAY, 22 / 9 / 2022
LECTURE — DVORANA OHRID / 10 – 11:30 H
NATALIJA MAJSOVA
Cultural Policies & the Implications of Thinking in Terms of Creative Participation
What does it mean to think about culture starting with the notions of creative participation and governance, rather than production and consumption? And how can we use the principle of participation to open up the field of cultural policies? This lecture foregrounds the implications of thinking through the notion of participation in various dimensions of the cultural sector: production, distribution, consumption, governance, and facilitation. Focussing on selected issues that characterize cultural participation and engagement in the present moment (notably, technological and ICT advances), and foregrounding specific case studies, the aim of the lecture is to highlight the implications and challenges that sociocultural transformations entail for cultural policymakers on the one hand, and for the various stakeholders affected by these policies on the other.
DISCUSSION GROUPS — DVORANA OHRID / 12 – 13:30 H
TIHANA PUPOVAC ~ moderator
MIRELA TRAVAR ~ moderator
AJETE KËRQELI & NITA ZEQIRI ~ moderators
Challenges and obstacles in your context
Working in the field of culture, especially tackling advocacy in culture, is a taunting undertaking.
Many cultural workers and artists have great, even visionary ideas, but implementing them in the real, day-to-day context, is the real challenge. We see the goal, we see the benefits it will provide us, our communities and beneficiaries, but the obstacles that come our way are more often than not daunting, sometimes even discouraging. Advocacy in the field of culture, especially advocacy in the independent cultural scene is very often a marathon and a process that demands much of our time, energy and patience – we hit upon walls of systems that don’t comprehend innovative ideas in cultural policy or simply crash into the misunderstandings of stakeholders of what it is we do and why it’s important to a broader community.
What are the challenges and obstacles that you face in your context? How are you trying to deal with them? How do you keep on working and pushing despite them? These are the questions and issues that we will discuss, as well as try to find that common space of mutual understanding and support that we can take with us.
We will discuss these questions in three smaller groups, each moderated by a different expert.
PLENARY SESSION — DVORANA OHRID / 15 – 16:30 H
TIHANA PUPOVAC & MIRELA TRAVAR ~ moderators
Feedbacking and Common Ground
Halfway through our summer school we will open up the space to reflect on the discussions, lectures, reading groups, panels, non-formal and informal learning processes. As the inaugural summer school on participative governance, it is important to open a space for common deliberation on the ideas and knowledge gained at the school. Moreover, we wish to encourage all of us to bring our own experiences in relation to what has been heard and discussed at the school up to this point. This way we will map out common values, issues, struggles and principles of work at the same time providing space for new connections and joint endeavours to emerge.
FRIDAY, 23 / 9 / 2022
PANEL DISCUSSION — DVORANA OHRID / 10 – 11:30 H
VALERIA GRAZIANO ~ moderator
SANJICA BURLOVIĆ ~ panelist
KAĆA KRSMANOVIĆ ~ panelist
KIKE ESPAÑA ~ panelist
Autonomous centers
A panel discussion about autonomous cultural centers and the possibilities opened by the innovative policy framework of civil-public partnerships.
In the last decades, a new breed of cultural institutions established itself as the cornerstone of emergent contemporary practices and new audiences. These new cultural hubs can be described in a variety of ways, including “from below”, “off”, and “independent.” Their animators engage in a wide range of ongoing activities, fostering worldwide connections while promoting research and productions, drawing in students and scholars, amateurs and artists. Sound and media art, experimental music, dance and performance, but also radio, design, citizens’ science and relational arts are only a few of the diverse languages and practices that cross them. By exposing new and varied audiences to the cultural tools required to understand the societal, technical, and environmental accelerations of our times, these independent cultural institutions create pathways to full citizenship and cultural democracy. Yet, institutional acknowledgement and support for these experiences is still lacking. The recently introduced “civic-public partnerships” is a policy framework that could help remedying this situation.
WORKSHOP I — DVORANA OHRID / 12 – 14 H
LYDIA CHATZIIAKOVOU & BILAL YILMAZ
Creative Craft Platform — Building Creative Communities and Networks around Crafts
In the context of their project Creative-Craft Platform, artist Bilal Yilmaz and curator Lydia Chatziiakovou aim to establish networks and communities of crafts and creatives in the post-industrial society. Based on an art-for-social-change approach, they design tools to create a collective dynamic archive of craft culture through participatory action research; offer a platform for creatives to think and take action on the potential of crafts; transform the creative cumulative actions to build a basis for authorities to introduce cultural craft policies; and document transformation of crafts’ know-how in the contemporary context.
The workshop will introduce Creative Craft Platform, the overall approach, background and experiences behind the project.
“Craft is a wedge that reveals stark distinctions within ideologies of taste and value. Craft polarises and collapses theoretical positions about what making means today. Craft is contemporary because it is the pivot between art and commerce, between work and leisure, between past and future. There is no such thing as ‘the contemporary’, and there is no such thing as craft. With all its complexities, with all its different registers of meaning across history, across class, across gender, across institutions, craft is all of these things, some of these things, none of these things.”
Julia Bryan-Wilson, “Eleven (Contradictory) Propositions in Response to the Question: What is Contemporary Craft?”, in Craft, ed. Tanya Harrod, Whitechapel Gallery, 2018, p. 68.
WORKSHOP II — DVORANA OHRID / 12 – 14 H
IVA ČUKIĆ
Governance models in common spaces
Bearing in mind all challenges and questions in regard to urban commons, the ambition with this workshop will not be to offer any definite answers to all of them, but to rather give an overview of possible perspectives and frameworks that will spark current and future debates on governance models in commons spaces. It will discuss potential spatial practices and governance models that can be examples of collective actions which are challenging the existing capitalist regime and power relations.
WORKSHOP III — DVORANA OHRID / 12 – 14 H
ARBA HATASHI & VULLNET SANAJA
Building Communities
In this workshop we will be looking at practical approaches to building active communities of cultural spaces through program design. We will be working in designing inclusive bottom up education and cultural programs that respond to the needs of the immediate communities surrounding the cultural centers. We will be exploring the relationship between spaces, communities and artistic tools and means that contribute to the democratization of cultural public infrastructure.
EVENING LECTURE — DVORANA OHRID / 16 – 17:30 H
BRANISLAV DIMITRIJEVIĆ
Beyond representation: art as a research-based social intervention
Although traditionally understood in connection to the notions of mimesis (imitation) and diegesis (narration), one feature of contemporary artistic practices is an attempt to go beyond this representational confinement. Also, instead of continually revising and reaffirming the very notion of “art”, in contemporary art there is a motion towards art understood as a social tool: instead of an inquiry into what art is, the weight is set on the question what can we do with it. However, if we simply narrow down artistic practices to their social functionality, the distinction between art and social activism may get indistinct, the artistic valorisation may become obsolete, and the notion of the autonomy of art could become redundant. This talk will address the question how to maintain art as an autonomous mode of thinking and acting without subsuming it to its representational role, and how to draft new models of cultural policy that would support emancipatory and research-based cultural processes.
MONDAY, 19 / 9 / 2022
LECTURE — DVORANA OHRID / 10 – 11:30 H
PASCAL GIELEN
Commoning Politics: Art, Civil Action and the Aesthetics of Vulnerability
Since the financial crisis started at the end of 2007 a lot of governments do budget cuts in the cultural and artistic field. Inspired by the critical social theory of Herbert Marcuse (1964), these policy decisions are understood within an ideological framework as ‘repressive liberalism’. That is a (cultural) politics that on the one hand proclaims individual freedom, stimulates cultural entrepreneurship and embraces the creative city, but on the other hand develops a large-scale decentralized control apparatus that strongly restricts individual and artistic freedom. Within this cultural policy creative labor itself can also be ‘instrumentalized’ as a repressive tool. In his lecture Pascal Gielen analyses the relationship between art, politics and the public space in the creative city. He also looks at how activists and creative ‘workers’ respond to this policy by organizing themselves in alternative, ‘commoning’ ways based on an aesthetics of ambiguity and universal vulnerability. The lecture will be based on Gielen’s books ‘The Art of Civil Action’, ‘Interrupting the City’, ‘Commonism’ and ‘The Aesthetics of Ambiguity’.
LECTURE — DVORANA OHRID / 12 – 13:30 H
IVA ČUKIĆ
Democratization of cultural public infrastructures: Urban Commons
This lecture will address both the theoretical and empirical position of urban commons emphasizing the concept of democratization of cultural public infrastructures. It will put forward the theoretical and interpretive framework that stems from the critical theory of the commons, which built further on Elinor Ostrom’s work (1990), and embedded the concept of the commons into a wider socio-economic context, producing normative criteria that politicize this form of collective ownership, use and governance – fair access, sustainable use and collective control. Rather than romanticizing the concept, the presentation will address the powerful political paradigm of urban commons through the particular cases, addressing the issues of collectivity, governance, inclusion/exclusion, power and political values and principles.
LECTURE — DVORANA OHRID / 16 – 17:30 H
DEA VIDOVIĆ
Democracy and Cultural Policy
The rhetoric of contemporary cultural policy implies the role of culture as the foundation of an open and democratic society. But opposite to this proclamation, cultural policy adjustments to structurally sustaining this claim of openness and democracy are out of balance. Namely, the principles of democracy are present as a part of the horizon but they are not positioned at the centre of our cultural policy realities and policy implementation. Therefore, in cultural policy practice there is a chronic lack of absorption of a whole spectrum of voices as well as normative opportunities for anticipation of new systemic and institutional frameworks for artistic and cultural practices that can be opposed to dominant cultural development paradigm characterised by a rigid, bureaucratic and hierarchical form of organisation that are built on discrimination. This lecture will focus on the relation between democracy and cultural policy and explore cultural policy (with Croatian examples) that could sustain and support democracy through more open, flexible, socially responsive and inclusive policy structures and governance schemes in culture.
PRESENTATION — DVORANA OHRID / 17:45 – 19:15 H
MARIJA KRNIĆ ~ moderator
TIHANA PUPOVAC ~ speaker
VULLNET SANAJA ~ speaker
SOURCE BOOK I: HOW TO BUILD NETWORKS AND WHY?
From Resilience towards Sustainability
From the 1990s onwards the cultural space of the former Yugoslavia, specifically, its independent cultural sector, has been making a significant contribution to the development of collaborative practices and to the overall understanding of participation and organising. While since the 1980s there has been a strong development of networking practices in the broad European cultural space, and much has been written about this phenomenon from different perspectives, the phenomenon of networking and organising in the territory of the former Yugoslavia has remained under-researched. This summer, Koperativa has, together with partners, published the book entitled HOW TO BUILD NETWORKS AND WHY?: From Resistance to Sustainability, the publication which represents a significant contribution to the inclusion of often neglected Yugoslav experiences and practices of networking, cooperation, and horizontal organising to our knowledge of contemporary networking practices. The publication of the book is an occasion for a conversation on the networks and models of organising with Vullnet Sanaja, the member of the book’s editorial team and Tihana Pupovac, the coordinator of Kooperativa. The discussion will be moderated by Marija Krnić.
TUESDAY, 20 / 9 / 2022
LECTURE — DVORANA OHRID / 10 – 11:30 H
ŽELJKA TONKOVIĆ
Practices of civic-public partnerships in Southeast Europe
Participatory governance models and civic-public partnership are increasingly changing the cultural landscape of cities across Southeast Europe. Initiated by collective action and based on different models of partnership with local authorities, socio-cultural centres are becoming key actors who encourage changes in established models of cultural policy. This lecture will give an overview of the existing situations, focusing on the selected examples of socio-cultural centres at different levels of development. Drawing on the rich tradition of sociological research, the lecture will also tackle the issue of cultural participation and inequalities in access to culture. In this perspective, a special emphasis will be given to the importance of innovative approaches to programming and governance in culture and their role in fostering community engagement and building inclusive society in a post-pandemic world.
READING GROUP I — DVORANA OHRID / 12 – 13:30 H
TIHANA PUPOVAC
Democracy, Participation, Institutions
Drawing on the work of French philosopher Jacques Ranciere and his famous statement that „democracy cannot be institutionalised“ we will approach the question of participatory governance from the point of view radical democratic transformation of the concept of institutions. Progressive social movements seldom fail in their attempt to maintain open non-hierarchical governance once they establish or take over institutions. At the same time if they do succeed in establishing non-hierarchical procedures of governance they seldom do not stand the test of time. Why is this? And what do the internal aporias of the process of institutionalisation of progressive movements teach us about the nature of governance and democracy? These are some of the questions we will set off with in our investigation through international and local examples of autonomous, horizontal and community led institutions.
READING GROUP II — DVORANA OHRID / 12 – 13:30 H
VALERIA GRAZIANO
Commons
The concept of the commons has become a key category of contemporary political discourse, opposing both the market logic of enclosure, extraction and commodification, and the top-down bureaucratisation of the state. Acts of commoning have been crucial to emerging political imaginaries and formations in the face of the global economic, political, and climatic crises. Taken together, commoning & the commons offer a potent paradigm to communities, cultural workers and broader social networks to develop tools for both a democratic self-governance, reciprocal care and a shared management of resources. In this reading group, we will depart from Massimo De Angelis’ recent text ‘The Strategic Horizon on the Commons’ (2019) to look at some of the most influential theories of the commons that emerged in the last decades and to activate these perspectives for transforming our organising practices.
READING GROUP III — DVORANA OHRID / 12 – 13:30 H
KATARINA PAVIĆ
Decentralised Internationalism and Horizontalism
Mark Fisher (1968 – 2017) theorist and writer was an indispensable influence in contemporary British culture, noted for his threading between cultural and political critique tackling erosion of class solidarity, relentless commodification of culture, privatisation of mental stress and lack of better future for the forthcoming generations. Equally melancholic and witty Fisher’s writings involved literary, film and music essays and commentaries that will remain relevant in years to come. Possibly less familiar were Fisher’s musings on organising in the cultural and political field, where he concentrated on questions of effective alternatives to global dominance of neoliberal orthodoxy.
For this occasion we shall read two short Fisher’s texts: in Peripheral Proposals (2013) co-published with Nina Möntmann authors discuss potential of decentralised internationalism of independent cultural organisations. In Some Misgivings About Horizontalism (2013) Fisher discusses problems of authority in organisation, pitfalls of horizontalist organisational structures and possible advantages of adopting elements of hegemonic institutional struggle.
READING GROUP IV — DVORANA OHRID / 12 – 13:30 H
MATIJA MRAKOVČIĆ
Civil-public partnerships
Public-civic partnerships represent a new hybrid form of institutional arrangements wherein the democratic agency of citizens is coupled with the institutional stability of public administration. Depending on their selection of proposed literature, participants of the Reading group will prepare a brief report on the possibilities and challenges that different practices of public-civic partnerships impose on their stakeholders. Reports will be presented in a wider forum through a moderated discussion.
PANEL DISCUSSION — DVORANA OHRID / 15 – 16:30 H
DAVOR MIŠKOVIĆ ~ moderator
VULLNET SANAJA ~ panelist
JANJA SESAR ~ panelist
JANA KOCEVSKA ~ panelist
Civil-public partnerships
Civil-public partnerships cannot be simply codified, but the basic idea evolves depending on the circumstances. The basic idea is the joint management of civil and public actors over certain resources, usually space. Circumstances that affect the kind of partnership that will develop depend on the managed resources, the legal framework, the capacities and density of civil actors, as well as the capacities of the public administration. That is why in practice we have different forms of civil-public partnership, which we will discuss with the panelists who implement them in practice.
WEDNESDAY, 21 / 9 / 2022
WORKSHOP I — DVORANA OHRID / 15 – 17 H
ISKRA SUKAROVA
NDA Advocacy methodology
Nomad Dance Advocates is meant to be a gathering of artists and policy and decision makers where they can communicate and exchange experiences in a different, more direct and positive way. The idea behind this is to show the world of contemporary dance to the decision makers from a different perspective. Through the performative and less formal communication and discussions, games and art works, the representatives of ministries of culture, city administrations and other decision making bodies encounter artists, discover the world behind the stage and get a better insight into the potentials of contemporary dance in today’s cultural scape.
Since 2012 Nomad Dance Advocates have met in Skopje, Sofia, Belgrade and Ljubljana. Every gathering engaged all the participants and guests into imagining the future where dance would not be an incident, but a social practice which brings people together and creates space in which we can understand and support each other.
Important part of it is the physical – dance training that helps the participants who are not familiar with dance to understand this practice better, to reconnect with their bodies and minds and to forget about their roles as politicians, representatives, delegates, officials…. The goal is to make them all be equal people who are happy to be together and exchange their knowledge so that these encounters bring beneficial fruits for the dance sector.
The physical part of the workshop will consist of a warm up, after which we will use improvisational methods to interact as a group with each other in the space we inhabit. We will work in groups and then demonstrate the physical outcomes of the improvisational tasks. The aim of the practical workshop is to focus on everyday movement vocabulary and personal dynamic qualities that we can analyse and use for further physical investigation within in our bodies in relation to the space.
WORKSHOP II — DVORANA OHRID / 15 – 17 H
AJETE KËRQELI & NITA ZEQIRI
Employing arts and culture in advocacy processes
This workshop session will explore a variety of steps essential to the practice of everyday cultural activism with particular focus in public spaces. It will provide the fundamentals necessary to kick-start advocacy practices employing arts and culture in order to create inclusive public spaces that in turn lead to social change. Throughout the working sessions we will explore arts and culture practices that engage citizens of all genders in public life through meaningful participation opportunities and develop partnerships that expand the community’s participation in the public life as well as work with central and local public institutions and organizations to create synergies for shared priorities.
WORKSHOP III — DVORANA OHRID / 15 – 17 H
NIKA KOVAČ
Grassroots campaigning: case study of water referendum, go out and
vote and yes means yes campaign
How to do campaigning without money and resources? Through the analysis of three case studies (water referendum, go out and vote and yes means yes campaign) we will tackle the importance of language, personal life testimonies and maintaining a progressive agenda in campaigning.
We will find the answers through the following questions:
~ How to mobilize your volunteers?
~ How to work with the media?
~ What are the secrets of crowdfunding?
~ How to increase democratic participation?
~ What are the biggest mistakes we made in our campaigns?
WORKSHOP IV — DVORANA OHRID / 16 H
IVAN MERCH
The Art of Protest: Werking on Countercultural Transformation
Most societies honour their living conformists and their dead troublemakers. It would be cool to find ways of dissenting, resisting and paving the way towards new futures, and not be fucked over and marginalised by dominant oppressor culture, right?
A mature counterculture understands that we shape our tools and in turn they shape us. Therefore the ways in which we organise, the ways in which we live and work and love are all advocating a political perspective. Embodied role-modeling alongside creative campaigning. We birth new cultures by living them out authentically, and culture eats strategy for breakfast. Planning, intentions, metrics are all secondary to the vibes with which imbue our communities. And art is an amplifier. Of values and ambitions and the collective zeitgeist. Installations, radio shows, murals, movies, community lunches, street demos – what it all boils down to is stories being showcased in different forms and ‘form follows function’.
This participatory werkshop invites you to explore ways in which art can be used to channel ideas from the sidelines into the mainstream, but also how protest and political organising can be elevated into an artform. We are living through an age where paradox is ever more obvious. The hurrier we go, the behinder we get. So we slow down to savour the process of artistic activism and find which media can support us in imagining and building radically different realities.
Time to werk the system, sisters.
The medium is still the message.
PANEL SESSION — DVORANA OHRID / 17:15 – 18:45 H
KATARINA PAVIĆ ~ moderator
MARIE LE SOURD ~ panelist
INGA REMETA ~ panelist
MIRELA TRAVAR ~ panelist
Advocacy in the field of participatory governance in culture
Context in which cultural workers operate is completely invisible and at the same time rather complex. Yet, more than just occasionally advocacy as a topic gets entangled in schematic and naive simplifications of dialoguing with the institutions without real ambitions to touch up on the intricacies that are the real deal such as the contentious political struggles and cultural wars, realistic timelines of events that sometimes extend over decades of hard work with little tangible results. Finally, potentially the most difficult question: how to ensure that we have not omitted important pieces of the puzzle while trying to push for change and thus contributing to the exacerbation of already dire conditions in which many in society live, including artists and cultural workers.
THURSDAY, 22 / 9 / 2022
LECTURE — DVORANA OHRID / 10 – 11:30 H
NATALIJA MAJSOVA
Cultural Policies & the Implications of Thinking in Terms of Creative Participation
What does it mean to think about culture starting with the notions of creative participation and governance, rather than production and consumption? And how can we use the principle of participation to open up the field of cultural policies? This lecture foregrounds the implications of thinking through the notion of participation in various dimensions of the cultural sector: production, distribution, consumption, governance, and facilitation. Focussing on selected issues that characterize cultural participation and engagement in the present moment (notably, technological and ICT advances), and foregrounding specific case studies, the aim of the lecture is to highlight the implications and challenges that sociocultural transformations entail for cultural policymakers on the one hand, and for the various stakeholders affected by these policies on the other.
DISCUSSION GROUPS — DVORANA OHRID / 12 – 13:30 H
TIHANA PUPOVAC ~ moderator
MIRELA TRAVAR ~ moderator
AJETE KËRQELI & NITA ZEQIRI ~ moderators
Challenges and obstacles in your context
Working in the field of culture, especially tackling advocacy in culture, is a taunting undertaking.
Many cultural workers and artists have great, even visionary ideas, but implementing them in the real, day-to-day context, is the real challenge. We see the goal, we see the benefits it will provide us, our communities and beneficiaries, but the obstacles that come our way are more often than not daunting, sometimes even discouraging. Advocacy in the field of culture, especially advocacy in the independent cultural scene is very often a marathon and a process that demands much of our time, energy and patience – we hit upon walls of systems that don’t comprehend innovative ideas in cultural policy or simply crash into the misunderstandings of stakeholders of what it is we do and why it’s important to a broader community.
What are the challenges and obstacles that you face in your context? How are you trying to deal with them? How do you keep on working and pushing despite them? These are the questions and issues that we will discuss, as well as try to find that common space of mutual understanding and support that we can take with us.
We will discuss these questions in three smaller groups, each moderated by a different expert.
PLENARY SESSION — DVORANA OHRID / 15 – 16:30 H
TIHANA PUPOVAC & MIRELA TRAVAR ~ moderators
Feedbacking and Common Ground
Halfway through our summer school we will open up the space to reflect on the discussions, lectures, reading groups, panels, non-formal and informal learning processes. As the inaugural summer school on participative governance, it is important to open a space for common deliberation on the ideas and knowledge gained at the school. Moreover, we wish to encourage all of us to bring our own experiences in relation to what has been heard and discussed at the school up to this point. This way we will map out common values, issues, struggles and principles of work at the same time providing space for new connections and joint endeavours to emerge.
FRIDAY, 23 / 9 / 2022
PANEL DISCUSSION — DVORANA OHRID / 10 – 11:30 H
VALERIA GRAZIANO ~ moderator
SANJICA BURLOVIĆ ~ panelist
KAĆA KRSMANOVIĆ ~ panelist
KIKE ESPAÑA ~ panelist
Autonomous centers
A panel discussion about autonomous cultural centers and the possibilities opened by the innovative policy framework of civil-public partnerships.
In the last decades, a new breed of cultural institutions established itself as the cornerstone of emergent contemporary practices and new audiences. These new cultural hubs can be described in a variety of ways, including “from below”, “off”, and “independent.” Their animators engage in a wide range of ongoing activities, fostering worldwide connections while promoting research and productions, drawing in students and scholars, amateurs and artists. Sound and media art, experimental music, dance and performance, but also radio, design, citizens’ science and relational arts are only a few of the diverse languages and practices that cross them. By exposing new and varied audiences to the cultural tools required to understand the societal, technical, and environmental accelerations of our times, these independent cultural institutions create pathways to full citizenship and cultural democracy. Yet, institutional acknowledgement and support for these experiences is still lacking. The recently introduced “civic-public partnerships” is a policy framework that could help remedying this situation.
WORKSHOP I — DVORANA OHRID / 12 – 14 H
LYDIA CHATZIIAKOVOU & BILAL YILMAZ
Creative Craft Platform — Building Creative Communities and Networks around Crafts
In the context of their project Creative-Craft Platform, artist Bilal Yilmaz and curator Lydia Chatziiakovou aim to establish networks and communities of crafts and creatives in the post-industrial society. Based on an art-for-social-change approach, they design tools to create a collective dynamic archive of craft culture through participatory action research; offer a platform for creatives to think and take action on the potential of crafts; transform the creative cumulative actions to build a basis for authorities to introduce cultural craft policies; and document transformation of crafts’ know-how in the contemporary context.
The workshop will introduce Creative Craft Platform, the overall approach, background and experiences behind the project.
“Craft is a wedge that reveals stark distinctions within ideologies of taste and value. Craft polarises and collapses theoretical positions about what making means today. Craft is contemporary because it is the pivot between art and commerce, between work and leisure, between past and future. There is no such thing as ‘the contemporary’, and there is no such thing as craft. With all its complexities, with all its different registers of meaning across history, across class, across gender, across institutions, craft is all of these things, some of these things, none of these things.”
Julia Bryan-Wilson, “Eleven (Contradictory) Propositions in Response to the Question: What is Contemporary Craft?”, in Craft, ed. Tanya Harrod, Whitechapel Gallery, 2018, p. 68.
WORKSHOP II — DVORANA OHRID / 12 – 14 H
IVA ČUKIĆ
Governance models in common spaces
Bearing in mind all challenges and questions in regard to urban commons, the ambition with this workshop will not be to offer any definite answers to all of them, but to rather give an overview of possible perspectives and frameworks that will spark current and future debates on governance models in commons spaces. It will discuss potential spatial practices and governance models that can be examples of collective actions which are challenging the existing capitalist regime and power relations.
WORKSHOP III — DVORANA OHRID / 12 – 14 H
ARBA HATASHI & VULLNET SANAJA
Building Communities
In this workshop we will be looking at practical approaches to building active communities of cultural spaces through program design. We will be working in designing inclusive bottom up education and cultural programs that respond to the needs of the immediate communities surrounding the cultural centers. We will be exploring the relationship between spaces, communities and artistic tools and means that contribute to the democratization of cultural public infrastructure.
EVENING LECTURE — DVORANA OHRID / 16 – 17:30 H
BRANISLAV DIMITRIJEVIĆ
Beyond representation: art as a research-based social intervention
Although traditionally understood in connection to the notions of mimesis (imitation) and diegesis (narration), one feature of contemporary artistic practices is an attempt to go beyond this representational confinement. Also, instead of continually revising and reaffirming the very notion of “art”, in contemporary art there is a motion towards art understood as a social tool: instead of an inquiry into what art is, the weight is set on the question what can we do with it. However, if we simply narrow down artistic practices to their social functionality, the distinction between art and social activism may get indistinct, the artistic valorisation may become obsolete, and the notion of the autonomy of art could become redundant. This talk will address the question how to maintain art as an autonomous mode of thinking and acting without subsuming it to its representational role, and how to draft new models of cultural policy that would support emancipatory and research-based cultural processes.
PILLAR 1: INTRODUCTION TO PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE
READING GROUP
KATARINA PAVIĆ
Decentralised Internationalism and Horizontalism
• Peripheral Proposals, Mark Fisher and Nina Möntmann
• Mark Fisher: Indirect Action: Some Misgivings About Horizontalism; in: Institutional Attitudes: Instituting Art in a Flat World, Pascal Gielen
READING GROUP
TIHANA PUPOVAC
Democracy, Participation, Institutions
• Todd May, Institutions of Equality in „Contemporary Political Movements and the Thought of Jacques Ranciere, 2010, Edinburgh University Press
• Jacques Ranciere, Does Democracy Mean Something in „Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics“, 2010, Continuum
WORKSHOP
LYDIA CHATZIIAKOVOU & BILAL YILMAZ
Creative Craft Platform — Building Creative Communities and Networks around Crafts
• Art for Social Change; Lecture by Dr. Sotirios Bahtsetzis (https://vimeo.com/419854707)
• Post-Industrial Design; lecture by Dr. Sotirios Bahtsetzis (https://youtu.be/kkpwdwt3P60)
• short video about Cuban artist/activist Tania Bruguera’s project on one of her recent art for social change projects at Tate Modern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TI9QSAs9gs&t=4s
• conversation between artists Edmund de Waal and Theaster Gates – whose practices are based on making and -especially for Theaster Gates- on making as a tool to foster community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8pzhjGRgM8
• introduction to the book CRAFT – Edited by Tanya Harrod, published by Whitechapel Gallery
• interview with Bilal Yilmaz on his public space installation Serial Craft and his journey on crafts research
WORKSHOP
ISKRA SUKAROVA
NDA Advocacy methodology
• https://www.culturalmanagement.ac.rs/en/see/organization/nomad-dance-academy-nda
• https://advocatesbelgrade.wordpress.com/about/
• https://www.kinosiska.si/en/dogodek/network-of-residencies-in-south-east-europe-norse/
•http://old.lokomotiva.org.mk/materijali_2012/Photo_2012/Lokomotion_5/PDF_Lokomotion_5/NOMAD_ANG_WEB.pdf
•http://old.lokomotiva.org.mk/materijali_2012/Html_2012/NDA_Advocates.htm
PILLAR 2: DEMOCRATIZATION OF CULTURAL PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE: PUBLIC GOODS / COMMONS
LECTURE AND WORKSHOP
IVA ČUKIĆ
Democratization of cultural public infrastructures: Urban Commons — lecture, 19 / 9 / 2022
Governance models in common spaces — workshop, 23 / 9 / 2022
• Urban Commons in the ex-YU region
• Commons in the South East Europe
• Practices and Tendencies of Participatory Governance in Culture in the Republic of Croatia
• Toolkit for Homes of Commons: https://www.spacesandcities-toolkit.com/
• Model for KC Magacin – download
READING GROUP
VALERIA GRAZIANO
Commons
PILLAR 3: PRACTICES OF CIVIC-PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE
READING GROUP
MATIJA MRAKOVČIĆ
Civic-public partnerships
• Civil-Public Partnership: A Potential for a Transformative Cultural Policy; in: Culture as a Factor in Democratisation: Practices, Collaborations and Work Models of the Independent Cultural Scene (Kurziv, 2021), ed. I. Pejić and M. Mrakovčić; pg. 60-72
• Key terms and concepts for understanding participatory governance in culture; in: Do it Together. Practices and Tendencies of Participatory Governance in Culture in the Republic of Croatia (Kultura Nova, 2018), ed. Dea Vidović; pg. 16-45
• Analysis of the participatory governance models on the examples of socio-cultural centres; in: Do it Together. Practices and Tendencies of Participatory Governance in Culture in the Republic of Croatia (Kultura Nova, 2018), ed. Dea Vidović; pg. 72-84
• Real Democracy in Your Town: Public-Civic Partnerships in Action (Green European Foundation, 2019); Vedran Horvat, Institute for Political Ecology.
• Rojc Community Centre, Croatia; in: Commons in South East Europe: Case of Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Macedonia (Institute for Political Ecology, 2018); ed. T. Tomašević, V. Horvat, A. Midžić, I. Dragšić, M. Dakić; pg. 85-94
• Kulturni centar Magacin / Cultural Centre Magacin; in: Spaces of Commoning : Urban Commons in the ex-YU region (Ministry of Space, Institute for Urban Politics, 2020), ed. I. Čukić and J. Timotijević; pg. 108-120
• Kinema Jusuf Gërvalla / Jusuf Gervalla Cinema; in: Spaces of Commoning : Urban Commons in the ex-YU region (Ministry of Space, Institute for Urban Politics, 2020), ed. I. Čukić and J. Timotijević; pg. 130-138
• Qendra për komunitet Termokiss / Termokiss Community Centre; in: Spaces of Commoning : Urban Commons in the ex-YU region (Ministry of Space, Institute for Urban Politics, 2020), ed. I. Čukić and J. Timotijević; pg. 138-152
• Pogon – Zagreb Centre for Independent Culture and Youth; in: Toolkit for Homes of Commons, Public-civic partnership (app. 15 July 2022)
PILLAR 1: INTRODUCTION TO PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE
READING GROUP
KATARINA PAVIĆ
Decentralised Internationalism and Horizontalism
• Peripheral Proposals, Mark Fisher and Nina Möntmann
• Mark Fisher: Indirect Action: Some Misgivings About Horizontalism; in: Institutional Attitudes: Instituting Art in a Flat World, Pascal Gielen
READING GROUP
TIHANA PUPOVAC
Democracy, Participation, Institutions
• Todd May, Institutions of Equality in „Contemporary Political Movements and the Thought of Jacques Ranciere, 2010, Edinburgh University Press
• Jacques Ranciere, Does Democracy Mean Something in „Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics“, 2010, Continuum
WORKSHOP
LYDIA CHATZIIAKOVOU & BILAL YILMAZ
Creative Craft Platform — Building Creative Communities and Networks around Crafts
• Art for Social Change; Lecture by Dr. Sotirios Bahtsetzis (https://vimeo.com/419854707)
• Post-Industrial Design; lecture by Dr. Sotirios Bahtsetzis (https://youtu.be/kkpwdwt3P60)
• short video about Cuban artist/activist Tania Bruguera’s project on one of her recent art for social change projects at Tate Modern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TI9QSAs9gs&t=4s
• conversation between artists Edmund de Waal and Theaster Gates – whose practices are based on making and -especially for Theaster Gates- on making as a tool to foster community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8pzhjGRgM8
• introduction to the book CRAFT – Edited by Tanya Harrod, published by Whitechapel Gallery
• interview with Bilal Yilmaz on his public space installation Serial Craft and his journey on crafts research
WORKSHOP
ISKRA SUKAROVA
NDA Advocacy methodology
• https://www.culturalmanagement.ac.rs/en/see/organization/nomad-dance-academy-nda
• https://advocatesbelgrade.wordpress.com/about/
• https://www.kinosiska.si/en/dogodek/network-of-residencies-in-south-east-europe-norse/
•http://old.lokomotiva.org.mk/materijali_2012/Photo_2012/Lokomotion_5/PDF_Lokomotion_5/NOMAD_ANG_WEB.pdf
•http://old.lokomotiva.org.mk/materijali_2012/Html_2012/NDA_Advocates.htm
PILLAR 2: DEMOCRATIZATION OF CULTURAL PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE: PUBLIC GOODS / COMMONS
LECTURE AND WORKSHOP
IVA ČUKIĆ
Democratization of cultural public infrastructures: Urban Commons — lecture, 19 / 9 / 2022
Governance models in common spaces — workshop, 23 / 9 / 2022
• Urban Commons in the ex-YU region
• Commons in the South East Europe
• Practices and Tendencies of Participatory Governance in Culture in the Republic of Croatia
• Toolkit for Homes of Commons: https://www.spacesandcities-toolkit.com/
• Model for KC Magacin – download
READING GROUP
VALERIA GRAZIANO
Commons
PILLAR 3: PRACTICES OF CIVIC-PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE
READING GROUP
MATIJA MRAKOVČIĆ
Civic-public partnerships
• Civil-Public Partnership: A Potential for a Transformative Cultural Policy; in: Culture as a Factor in Democratisation: Practices, Collaborations and Work Models of the Independent Cultural Scene (Kurziv, 2021), ed. I. Pejić and M. Mrakovčić; pg. 60-72
• Key terms and concepts for understanding participatory governance in culture; in: Do it Together. Practices and Tendencies of Participatory Governance in Culture in the Republic of Croatia (Kultura Nova, 2018), ed. Dea Vidović; pg. 16-45
• Analysis of the participatory governance models on the examples of socio-cultural centres; in: Do it Together. Practices and Tendencies of Participatory Governance in Culture in the Republic of Croatia (Kultura Nova, 2018), ed. Dea Vidović; pg. 72-84
• Real Democracy in Your Town: Public-Civic Partnerships in Action (Green European Foundation, 2019); Vedran Horvat, Institute for Political Ecology.
• Rojc Community Centre, Croatia; in: Commons in South East Europe: Case of Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Macedonia (Institute for Political Ecology, 2018); ed. T. Tomašević, V. Horvat, A. Midžić, I. Dragšić, M. Dakić; pg. 85-94
• Kulturni centar Magacin / Cultural Centre Magacin; in: Spaces of Commoning : Urban Commons in the ex-YU region (Ministry of Space, Institute for Urban Politics, 2020), ed. I. Čukić and J. Timotijević; pg. 108-120
• Kinema Jusuf Gërvalla / Jusuf Gervalla Cinema; in: Spaces of Commoning : Urban Commons in the ex-YU region (Ministry of Space, Institute for Urban Politics, 2020), ed. I. Čukić and J. Timotijević; pg. 130-138
• Qendra për komunitet Termokiss / Termokiss Community Centre; in: Spaces of Commoning : Urban Commons in the ex-YU region (Ministry of Space, Institute for Urban Politics, 2020), ed. I. Čukić and J. Timotijević; pg. 138-152
• Pogon – Zagreb Centre for Independent Culture and Youth; in: Toolkit for Homes of Commons, Public-civic partnership (app. 15 July 2022)