We invite cultural professionals and researchers interested in the analysis of relations between various entities creating urban culture. The aim of the workshop is to collectively reflect on the qualitative methods and tools that can be used to research and evaluate cultural projects, especially those created in cooperation with various cultural ctors (institutional and non-institutional), their relationship with the public, especially in projects carried out jointly by the entities of different profile and organizational and financial structure.
The report “Terra (in) cognita. European Capital of Culture in the perspective of Wroclaw’s cultural institutions ” – prepared by a research team lead by Ewa Banaszak from the University of Wrocław – will serve as a point of reference for the workshop. You can reade the report online (it’s available in Polish only).
Workshop will be conducted in Polish and you can participate for free after you will register online via e-mail: praktycykultury@strefakultury.pl with “Culture practitioners Workshop: in the subject of the e-mail. Registering to the event equals giving your consent to the processing of your personal data.
Introduction:
Ewa Banaszak – alumnus of sociology the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, PhD in the sociology, adjunct at the Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław. Co-editor of several works on the body, corporeality, and gender, as well as the author of the monograph entitled “Eksperiencje nagości” (2017, [Experientiae of the Nudity]). Currently engaged in the research connected with the evaluation of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016 and everyday dress (Wrocław Fashion Project).
Workshop leaders:
Aleksandra Janus – researcher and activist focused on bringing institutions closer to their audiences. She specialises in audience research and visitor studies, she promotes open models of sharing resources and participatory strategies in exhibition design and collecting. She is involved in numerous initiatives supporting these ideas in the GLAM sector. She is a co-founder of a research group Kierunek zwiedzania, curator of Laboratorium muzeum and a head of the Open Culture Lab at Centrum Cyfrowe. She was a speaker at i.a.: the MuseumNEXT conference (Barcelona 2012), (Cape Town 2012), Inclusive Museum Conference (Los Angeles 2014) and Museums and Their Publics at Sites of Conflicted History (Warsaw 2017).
Anna Buchner – PhD, Member of the Department of Research Methods in Cultural Studies in the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw (ISNS UW), member of The Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN). She belongs to the Network of Flying Digital Sociologists for Association of Creative Initiatives “ę”. She participated in nationwide and international research projects exploring i.a. institutions of culture, new media, teachers, canons of beauty, lifestyles and polish religiosity. She also has experience in evaluation projects, a.i. activity of regional centers of European Social Fund and Cultural Animators Non-congress.
