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Background CulturalBase is a social platform funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 framework Programme 2014-2015 “Europe in a changing world: inclusive, innovative and reflective societies”. As a social platform CulturaBase has undertaken innovative research by experimenting with a participative process. It has encouraged the active participation of a large number of stakeholders, bringing together […]

1. Workshop rationale The European Union is at yet another crossroad after the Brexit referendum’s results, the overall rise of the Far Right in several EU countries, and while another migrant and refugee flows crisis is still looming. Indeed the EU once more needs an Escape to the Future – it needs to creatively rethink […]

Summary Executive Summary The Cultural Base Platform Our Work Main Findings Challenges and Key Messages for the Future Introduction 1.1. Cultural Base as social platform 1.2. Roadmap 1.3. Memory, inclusion and creativity. The three axes of Cultural Base 1.3.a. Cultural memory 1.3.b. Cultural inclusion 1.3.c. Cultural creativity Setting the Scene Per Axis 2.1. Cultural memory […]

Introduction Since the second half of the last century, culture has experienced a profound mutation, through which its position and role in social dynamics have been transformed to constitute an essential basis of today’s society. Cultural digitization and globalization have radically altered the cultural ecosystem and intensified the relationship between cultural identity, cultural heritage and […]

Introduction Since the second half of the last century, culture has experienced a profound mutation, through which its position and role in social dynamics have been transformed to constitute an essential basis of today’s society. Cultural digitization and globalization have radically altered the cultural ecosystem and intensified the relationship between cultural identity, cultural heritage and […]

Introduction Since the second half of the last century, culture has experienced a profound mutation, through which its position and role in social dynamics have been transformed to constitute an essential basis of today’s society. Cultural digitization and globalization have radically altered the cultural ecosystem and intensified the relationship between cultural identity, cultural heritage and […]

Introduction Since the second half of the last century, culture has experienced a profound mutation, through which its position and role in social dynamics have been transformed to constitute an essential basis of today’s society. Cultural digitization and globalization have radically altered the cultural ecosystem and intensified the relationship between cultural identity, cultural heritage and […]

Workshop rationale Cultural Base is a social platform funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme 2014-2015 “Europe in a changing world: inclusive, innovative and reflective societies”. Cultural Base aims to address the topic of Heritage and European Identities from a double standpoint, namely, an analytical as well as a public policy perspective. It […]

Matías I. Zarlenga Abstract The purpose of this Vision Document is to go beyond the prevailing view of cultural creativity as one dominated by economic considerations and to look for emergent alternatives. In the present instance, we would like to consider new institutional and practical frameworks of cultural creativity, which are also situated far from […]

Arturo Rodríguez Morató Abstract Cultural diversity and cultural complexity has dramatically increased in Europe in recent times. Cultural hybridization is very important in this context as the relationship between diversity and creativity becomes crucial in assuring social cohesion and progress. However, assimilationist standards predominate in Europe, therefore the potential represented by this increased cultural diversity […]