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Henriette Waal: Funding Creativity Like an Ecosystem

Atelier LUMA co-founder Henriette Waal argues that creative funding should behave like an ecosystem – smaller, local, long-term, backing time, repair and relationships – and that making is a form of research worth recognising and paying for.
BAUTOPIA 7

End Times Narratives Are Becoming Mainstream Again. Can Culture Help Us Go Beyond?

On the last day of the Bautopia festival in Athens Creatives Unite hosts a panel discussion on a relevant and up-to-date topic at the intersection of culture and politics end-times narratives and what culture's role may be in a future that is described...

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Artificial Intelligence

Vladan Joler On Counter Mapping And Creative Agency In The Era of AI

As artificial intelligence reshapes human culture, artist and researcher Vladan Joler uses counter-mapping to reveal the hidden material, labour, and algorithmic structures behind AI, offering a blueprint for how to reclaim creative agency.

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Working Conditions

Report: Public Libraries as Europe's Overlooked Infrastructure

A first-of-its-kind EU report argues that the continent's 67,000 public libraries do far more than lend books — and warns that funding, legal protection and data on them remain dangerously uneven from one member state to the next.

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The Commission Rewrites The Rules for Europe's Capitals of Culture

The European Commission has proposed a sweeping overhaul for the European Capitals of Culture scheme. Starting in 2034, new rules will switch the focus from a single year of festivals toward building long-term community legacies.

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Europe's Artists Are Rebuilding Trust in Fractured Communities. But Who Should Pay For it?

A new study of "socially engaged arts" documents a field that funders and policymakers say they want to support – yet one that consistently falls between arts and social-policy budgets, at a time when both are under pressure across Europe

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