This network, which took place from 2017 – 2022 sought to understand the role of arts and cultural managers as intercultural brokers in our context of globalisation, internationalisation and global migration. It argued that intercultural understanding suggests capacity for appreciating, recognising and relating to different world viewpoints and experiences. Historical and empirical research recognises the role arts and cultural objects and expressions, like fine and performing arts and heritage, play in political, cultural and ethnic relations. Yet, little was known about the role of arts and cultural managers, their practice and education, in this process.
Arts and cultural managers shape and structure intercultural exchange. They direct and administer arts and cultural projects between nations, and devise, plan and develop arts and cultural programming to attract and include growing migrant populations as audiences, participants and creators within nations. Global, cultural, post colonial, and intercultural studies show that mechanisms for fostering or hindering intercultural understanding are often based on long standing terminology, institutional structures, and habits upheld by practices and pedagogies within specific professions.
More on the Network Members are available on the links. The network was funded through initial support by the Arts and Humanities Research Council from 2016 – 2018 and subsequently by Heilbronn University and the Wurth Foundation.
Prof. Dr. Raphaela Henze, Co-Founder, MBA, Heilbronn University, raphaela.henze@hs-heilbronn.de
Dr. Victoria Durrer, Co-Founder and Adviser, University College Dublin, victoria.durrer@ucd.ie
