Compared models of contemporary cultural policies launched by the cities of Gothenburg and Barcelona.

Abstract

In this article we are going to compare two proposals for cultural policies recently launched by the cities of Göteborg and Barcelona. Two public plans that present new ways of institutional cultural action. Accepting the challenges presented by the new institutional forms of cultural management that are emerging today, and their associated rights. To do this, we will follow the connection between the social value of culture and cultural rights, central to the Nordic and Mediterranean proposals, and ready to articulate a new institutional culture that can respond to contemporary challenges in public and community management.

We are going to verify that we can address today the issues in the field of cultural policies. Related to the list of institutional issues. We are going to deal with the institutional management of cultural capital, the new heritages and the forms of cultural valuation. Sustainability, health, well-being. (...)