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31 January 2013 Essays

‘All in this together’

The de-politicisation of community art in Britain, 1970-2011 The term ‘community art’ came into use in Britain at the beginning

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8 December 2012 Talks

Old maps and new projections

In Flanders (Belgium) there has been much recent debate about cultural governance. The central issues are about the best models

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21 October 2012 Thinking

Those who get it, and those who don’t

As the crisis sapping the Western economies continues, the division between those who get it and those who don’t becomes

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31 August 2012 Talks / Thinking

Evidence, politicians and the value of debate

A meeting of cultural researchers was held in Lefkosia (Nicosia) this week, under the auspices of the Cyprus Presidency of

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3 March 2012 Talks

The Shoreline and the Sea

What is the difference between culture and heritage? It’s a question that has often arisen in my work and which,

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12 February 2012 Essays

Culture and the crisis

It’s nearly five years since bank defaults burst the neoliberal economic bubble and the world – or at least the

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23 January 2012 Research

Stories and Fables: Culture in Orkney

Download the report Stories and Fables – Culture in Orkney 2012 Orkney is an archipelago set in the wild seas of the

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20 January 2012 Evaluation

On ‘the very idea of measuring cultural value’

There is a new blog on the DCMS website by Claire Donovan, an academic at Brunel University who has been

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François Matarasso

François Matarasso

I'm a community artist, writer and researcher, working in Europe. My latest book, 'A Restless Art' (London 2019), is about the history, theory and practice of participatory art.

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