The Value of Arts and Culture for Regional Development

A Scandinavian Perspective

Lisbeth Lindeborg, Lars Lindkvist

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781136760877
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Negocios y empresa
• Subtopic: Negocios en general

In this new volume, 28 Scandinavian researchers and others who are active in arts and culture seek to answer the questions: What has been the effect of regional and local investment in arts and culture? And what positive and negative experiences have there been? This book describes and analyzes the extent to which cultural investments at local and regional levels have stimulated development and led to essential processes of change for the community in general.

Of special interest is how different places manage to "turn the tide". What do their development processes involve? Which ways and means do they use to go forward in order to change their paths and start anew? These are just a few of the important questions addressed in this book. One of the most important findings is that while you can never transfer the successful renewal of one place to another like a blueprint, certain common patterns in the cultural processes are discernible.

The contributors to this book show the breadth of theoretical tools that can be used to increase awareness of the significance of culture for regional development. Throughout the book readers will find a multitude of theoretical concepts, from entrepreneurship theory, organizational institutionalism and cultural economy, to cultural planning and art management. This book will appeal to scholars and practitioners of urban and regional studies, and cultural and creative economics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 En Route in the Cultural Society: An Introductory Dialogue
• 2 Nordic Culture: An Asset with Many Facets
• 3 Turning the Tide with ‘Woman on a Cart’: The Amazing Case of Holstebro
• 4 The Role of Culture Festivals in Regional Development: The Festival of Tordenskiold in Frederikshavn
• 5 Culture as a Generator of Regional Development and Economic Growth: Skagen and Horsens
• 6 The Roskilde Festival and its Importance for Regional Industrial and Cultural Development
• 7 Translating Global Ideas into Local Practices: Creative Tampere Programme
• 8 Great Expectations: Turku as the European Capital of Culture 2011
• 9 The Essential Power of Culture: Museums and the Archipelago Trail in the Southwest Finland Archipelago
• 10 Creativity and Post-Original: Maritime Centre Vellamo and Kotka-Hamina Region
• 11 How to Develop a Region through Culture and Creativity: The Foundation Cultiva in Kristiansand
• 12 Site-Specific Strength: The Regional Power of Historical Plays and Place Sponsoring
• 13 In Culture we Trust: Beliefs in Culture as an Instrument for Development in the Stavanger Region
• 14 Culture and Value Creation: An Economic Analysis of Vara Concert Hall and the Nordic Watercolour Museum
• 15 Brilliant Combinations of Art and Nature: Learning Points from the World of Opera and Classical Music
• 16 An Innovation Lost: The Ice Dome Concert Hall Project in Piteå
• 17 ‘Finding the Spiritus Loci’: Cultural planning in the Kronoberg Region
• 18 Cultural Entrepreneurship and Creative Points of Intersection: The Island of Furillen
• 19 Fragile Creativity: Lessons from the Rise and Fall, and Rise Again, of Sweden’s Biggest Rock Festival
• 20 ‘Where the Roads Begin’. A Northern Renaissance Around the Barents Sea: The Barents Euro-Arctic Region
• 21 The Role of Arts and Culture in Regional Cooperation: Mid-Scandinavian Regions Jämtland and Tröndelag
• Index