Postgraduate Diploma in Cultural Management and Sustainability - 2nd Edition

Presentation

Assuming that the ways of doing things in the artistic and cultural field are currently being questioned and mobilised by ecological issues, this advanced training programme aims to relate environmental and social and human sustainability demands - and the political, ethical and practical challenges they pose - to artistic, programming and cultural management practices.

Based on an exploratory and critical approach, the course serves two correlated purposes: to promote an updating of discourses and practices in terms of cultural policies, and to propose an initial and experimental approach to sustainability, translated into the exploration of concepts and the analysis of practices in the field of eco-dramaturgy, environmental justice or eco-ethical management.

Crossing the fields of artistic studies, creative production and ecology, it constitutes a unique and relatively pioneering training programme, responding to an emerging set of reflexive needs and competences in the cultural sector.

Scientific and Pedagogic Coordination:

Vânia Rodrigues and Fernando M. Oliveira

Main Lecturer:

Vânia Rodrigues

more info: vania.rodrigues@uc.pt

Objectives

- establish links between the multiple contemporary challenges of sustainability, the formulation of cultural policies and projects and the evolving roles of cultural management;

- develop analytical and speculative skills around the possibilities of reconfiguring ways of doing things in the cultural and artistic field in the face of environmental challenges and economic and social inequalities;

- distinguish between the different modes of creative production and arts management, and their implications in the field of internal collaboration, leadership and governance

- learn about and discuss the potential and applicability of the concepts and practices of eco-dramaturgy, eco-performance and eco-production in the processes of creation, production and circulation of the performing arts

- develop research or applied intervention micro-projects in the field of eco-responsible production.

Study Programme

1. Cultural Policies and Environmental and Social Sustainability

- Cultural policies: concepts, delimitations and dynamics;

- New discourses: changing paradigms of contemporary cultural policies.

2. Eco-ethical management and direction of cultural organisations

- Ways of Producing. Regimes of creation, production and organisation in the arts.

- Leadership, management models and eco-ethics;

- Transnational co-operation, networking and mobility of artists and cultural professionals;

- Fair and sustainable practices: cases and experiences.

3. Eco-dramaturgy, eco-performance, eco-criticism

- Eco-criticism and ecological thinking

- Imagination and ecology: between performance and new dramaturgies

- Case studies: guest artists (eco-conscious artistic practices)

4. Laboratory

- Laboratory: framework, methodologies and processes;

- Development of a collective project, under tutorial guidance.

Promoters

RESEARCH CENTRE

Institutional Partnership

Living the Future Academy

Support

Investment RE-C06-i03 - Adult Incentive and Investment RE-C06-i04 - STEAM Youth Incentive as part of the Living the Future Academy Project supported by the PRR - Recovery and Resilience Plan and the Next Generation EU European Funds.