One of the aims of the CICERONE project is to understand the (global) organisation of production in the cultural and creative industries. Due to the pandemic, it has become abundantly clear that this organisation is far from static. In the fashion industry, the COVID-19 crisis...
In February 2020, nobody could possibly imagine how much our lives would change from that point onwards, and in how many different ways. At that time we were travelling to our Horizon2020 CICERONE consortium meeting in Barcelona to meet with our project partners from all...
CICERONE-members Thomas Borén and Dominic Power (both from Stockholm University) have finished the third in a series of WP3-related CICERONE papers which explores whether and to what extent the existing European, national and regional policy frameworks concerning cultural industries (and the wider economy) are appropriate...
Culture and the cultural and creative industries are among the most affected sectors in Bulgaria at the national level in the last months of the crisis caused by COVID-19. As early as March 8, 2020, cultural institutions were closed and cultural events were canceled indefinitely....
Looking into the life-threatening consequences that the virus is having on the cultural sector – on its workers, businesses and cultural diversity – it seems impossible to find a possible bright side of the corona pandemic on the European cultural ecosystem. However, in the face...
It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good as the saying goes. Although the CCIs have been hit very hard on the whole, the Covid-19 situation has benefited some in one way or another, either consciously or accidentally. Simon Uyterlinde just graduated from a Dutch...
The details of how the production networks and the related places are affected by the current pandemic will be studied throughout the CICERONE-project. However, we already now know that the different regulations put in place during the pandemic strikes very differently. In the Swedish case...
The pandemic is clearly affecting the way we work or live. Resilience and adaptation are the new motto these days. This is true for many creative sectors but specially for architecture as it defines and shapes the cities and places of tomorrow. Technology and sustainability...
In 2017, Dorota Ilczuk together with the team of the Centre for Creative Economy Research at the University of SWPS published the "Support for artists and creators. International perspective". It was the first in a series of reports that the experts of the Polish Conference...
Culture is produced, reproduced and consumed in cities. Thanks to the development of dense and diversified (economic and social) networks of relations, cities have always been places where the production of culture concentrates and circulates; the urban experience has always been crucial for the development...