Evaluation – François Matarasso

‘Write this down’

It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us

Evaluation has become a dominant preoccupation in participatory art in the past generation. It’s a fascinating field, and I’ve played

Last week, I participated in a round table discussion organised by the Cultural Value Scoping Project at Tate Modern. The

There’s a lot of interest at the moment in the value of culture and cultural value (not the same thing),

‘What are you going to do, then?’ I asked. ‘To smoke,’ he answered. ‘It is quite a three pipe problem,

‘We all began with the best of intentions, and then ran slap into reality. Very quickly, it was evident that

The McMaster Review Fashions sometimes change quickly in the arts, and in arts policy too. In July 2007, the then

On the face of it, it’s an odd question. After all, we know what a baker, a dentist or a

How can you describe a cultural programme that has extended over 14 years, 9 countries and 3,000 projects? How do

Learning about evaluation Fifteen years ago, at the end of Use or Ornament?, I rather naively raised the possibility of