Description du projet
Œuvrer pour des GLAM plus forts et durables
La pandémie de COVID-19 a obligé le monde à agir rapidement pour faire face aux défis extraordinaires qu’elle a engendrés. Les institutions culturelles – galeries, bibliothèques, archives et musées (GLAM en anglais) – n’ont pas été épargnées. À vrai dire, les GLAM étaient déjà en difficulté en raison du manque de financement, de l’augmentation des coûts d’exploitation et d’entretien et de problèmes liés au tourisme. La question s’est posée: Comment les GLAM peuvent-ils organiser et articuler la production et la consommation culturelles? Le projet GLAMMONS, financé par l’UE, apportera des réponses en s’appuyant sur la théorie des biens communs: la notion selon laquelle les ressources partagées sont indûment épuisées par ceux qui recherchent un gain à court terme. Cette nouvelle approche conceptuelle proposera une analyse et une évaluation approfondies de la dynamique du GLAM et passera en revue les pratiques susceptibles de mener à la durabilité du secteur.
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The outbreak of the pandemic created unprecedented challenges for galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs), which were already struggling during the last years with issues of underfunding, increased maintenance and operational costs and challenges imposed by over-tourism. The COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call to rethink how cultural production and consumption are organized and articulated with different sets of actors and local contexts, towards safeguarding sustainability, access and the well-being of the sector, its workforce and surrounding communities. Long before the pandemic crisis, European cultural policy encouraged museums to embrace participatory governance and digitisation (European Commission, 2010 ), become more financially self-reliant and diversify their income-generating activities. It is thus vital to map pre-pandemic practices across the sector, to fully account the pandemic effects on the sector and to explore novel solutions that will inform GLAMs response and adaptation to the post-pandemic era, under a new conceptual paradigm that will advance GLAMs as the agents of change. GLAMMONS project aims to provide answers to the above challenges, fill gaps and advance research and policy employing the theory of the commons to i) provide an in-depth analysis and evaluation of ongoing shifts (with a specific focus on both pandemic-driven transformations and digitalisation) in the field of GLAMs, ii) explore and assess practices (concerning management, finance and participation) that emerge around small scale, community-led GLAMs and the possibility of transferring relevant knowledge to more “established” and traditional ones to provide more sustainability to the sector. Rooted in a track record of internationally recognized research excellence and world-leading practice, GLAMMONS will deliver an ambitious work programme, mainly through a novel conceptual approach: the GLAMs of the commons.
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