Periodic Reporting for period 1 - GLAMMONS (Resilient, sustainable and participatory practices: Towards the GLAMs of the commons)
Berichtszeitraum: 2022-10-01 bis 2023-09-30
GLAMMONS unpacks its Major Objectives (MO) in three Scientific Objectives (SO) and two Policy Objectives (PO):
MO A: Develop new conceptualizations through the ways that the commons theory and practice can provide a new transformative power for the GLAMS and the local communities
SO1: Develop new understandings about the current and post-pandemic challenges that GLAMs face.
SO2: Develop new approaches about the sustainable financing and resource management of the GLAMs.
SO3: Develop new conceptualizations of the cultural commons perspective for the local communities
MO B: Produce evidence-based policy recommendations for more participatory and inclusive management and more efficient and resilient financing of the GLAMs through arrangements of the commons.
PO1: Define resilient communing practices through evidence-based research
PO2: Produce policy recommendations for the GLAMs of the commons
More specifically, the project addresses the following specific needs:
-Need for new methods and models for the sustainable financing of (under-funded) GLAMs.
-Need to embrace and enable participatory management practices for GLAMs to become more inclusive and relevant to their surrounding communities.
-Need to evaluate the economic and social impact of the pandemic on the GLAMs’ sector.
-Need for GLAMs to become fully embedded in cities’ life through participatory management.
-Need to enhance GLAMs’ role in sustainable regional development
-Need for GLAMs to further promote processes of social value-creation and trauma healing
-Need for a digital commons-based strategy for sharing knowledge and communication through and about objects and collections
-Need for new digital tools for co-creating arts and heritage content with user communities
Against this background, GLAMMONS is expected to deliver the following outcomes:
-Explore new ways of participatory cultural management and sustainable financing for museums and other cultural institutions, during and after times of crises such as the coronavirus pandemic.
-Ensure better access to cultural heritage and engagement with local communities, to preserve and strengthen social cohesion through inclusive and participatory procedures.
-Strengthen the sense of belonging to a common European space while respecting cultural and ethnolinguistic diversity, as well as developing an awareness of cultural pluralism.
-Promote the role of museums and other cultural institutions in well-being, health, resilience, social inclusion and society’s dealing with trauma and post-crisis recovery.
-Foster the role of museums and other cultural institutions in sustainable economic growth and regional development.
-14 Deliverables have been submitted on time
-3 Milestones have been achieved:
M1 – Launch of GLAMMONS
M2 – GLAMMONS web presence
M3 – Ending of analytical phase
B) Scientific:
The GLAMMONS consortium worked on understanding a number of challenges that GLAMs face and attempted to shed light upon the participatory practices in GLAMs, the multiple financial channels of GLAMs and their contribution to regional economies, etc. The project gathered primary quantitative data for most of the above through the GLAMMONS survey, but also through databases, reports and studies, as well as through interviews with GLAMs professionals. Furthermore, the project attempted to theorise the ways GLAMs can be seen through the lens of commons theory leading to a research paper forwarded to Open Research Europe
C) Management:
- The Consortium Agreement was signed by all beneficiaries
- Panteion set a Project Management Office to ensure the PM quality standards and to have the overview of the project’s execution, build the deliverables, monitor activities, and report to the Funding Authority.
- The Consortium set its governance bodies and persons: The Steering Committee; The Coordinator; The Ethics Manager; The Data Manager