To make culture - From fathers to peers
Findings, analyses and proposals to make cultural policies evolve towards the redefinition of their meaning in the contemporary world, towards more democracy
I wrote one of the chapters of this book, “Image 2.0 - Become an author-producer”, which proposes theories and actions to open up the creativity of everyone with digital tools. It is a question of rethinking the very foundations of cultural projects, in a new paradigm of the functions of each, and with a renewed requirement.
The book on the website of the Presses universitaires de Grenoble: www.pug.fr/produit/1956/9782706150111/faire-culture
Book back cover
How cultural policies and the way culture is done are being redesigned
Today, a generation of cultural and arts professionals are finding that the institutions that trained them continue to think of themselves as intermediaries in a pyramid of values, orders, and disciplines, while they become part of a much larger ecosystem.
For these professionals, to work is to “work”. To cooperate is to “make work”, to produce collectively. They meet around field experiences, projects to be produced, moments to make and think, support for public policies, competitive dialogues, European cooperation, public markets... They organize festivals, residencies, they produce stories, they program, they undertake, they map, they survey, they upload and download, they document... They work together. Peer to peer.
These complicities lay the foundation for new forms of public policy, outlining solutions for a sustainable transition. This is what this book addresses thanks to eleven contributions from the experiences of atypical operators acting in various parts of the cultural sector.
Pierre Brini is director of international cultural projects at Laba and associate professor at Sciences Po Grenoble. Emmanuel Vergès is co-director of the observatory of cultural policies Grenoble and cultural engineer at the Office (Marseille).
Contributors to the work: Sylvia Andriantsimahavandy, Laura Aufrère, Céline Berthoumieux, Juliette Bompoint, Alexandra Cohen, Eli Commins, Elisa Dumay, Vincent Guillon, Benoît Labourdette, Saralou Metsch, Agathe Ottavi, Guillaume Soulard, Philippe Teillet.
Presses Universitaires de Grenoble
Summary
- Introduction: Seizing a historical moment and facing exhaustion
- Chapter 1: Cultural arbitrariness and the rural world. Elisa Dumay.
- Chapter 2: In search of the lost taste... Towards the politics of vibration. Saralou Metsch.
- Chapter 3: Associating art to the manufacture of territories. Alexandra Cohen and Agathe Ottavi.
- Chapter 4: The possibility of a work. Emmanuel Vergès.
- Chapter 5: The Europe of culture by its northern face. Pierre Brini.
- Chapter 6 : Interplay, playing between the lines. Sylvia Andriantsimahavandy.
- Chapter 7: From the New Territories of Art to a Cultural Foncière Solidiares. Juliette Bompoint and Laura Aufrère.
- Chapter 8: “Image 2.0” - Becoming an author/producer. Benoît Labourdette.
- Chapter 9: On our computers and smartphones, forgetting does not exist. Eli Commins.
- Chapter 10: What do we have in common?. Guillaume Soulard.
- Chapter 11: The institution: outside, inside? Céline Berthoumieux.
- Chapter 12: Rethinking local cultural policies: vulnerabilities and mutations of a system in pain. Vincent Guillon.
- Conclusion: Policy-making with cultures.
List of contributors
- Elisa Dumay, cultural planner and founder of De l’aire, Crest.
http://www.delaire.eu/ - Saralou Metsch, director of culture of Villefranche-sur-Saône and its agglomeration, in charge of the prefiguration of the third place house Vermorel.
http://www.villefranche.net/index.php/culture-sports-et-loisirs/culture/1055-maison-vermorel.html - Alexandra Cohen and Agathe Ottavi, founders of the cultural urbanism cooperative Cuesta, Rennes/Paris.
http://cuesta.fr/ - Emmanuel Vergès, co-director of the Observatoire des politiques culturelles, Grenoble and cultural engineer at the Office, Marseille.
http://www.loffice.coop - Pierre Brini, director of international cultural projects at Laba, and associate professor at Sciences Po Grenoble.
https://lelaba.eu/ - Sylvia Andriantsimahavandy, director of innovation, La Plateforme and co-founder of the Hive community.
www.laplateforme.io - www.hive-community.io - Juliette Bompoint, former director of Mains d’Œuvres and co-founder of the Scic la Main 9-3.0, co-director of Périfééries (association supporting the candidacy of Saint-Denis, Plaine Commune and the department of Seine-Saint-Denis for the title of European capital of culture 2028).
- Laura Aufrère, doctoral student in management, Sorbonne Paris Nord University; Labex ICCA - Paris Nord Economics Center (UMR CNRS 7234-CEPN).
- Benoît Labourdette, filmmaker, educator, expert in new media, cultural innovation and entrepreneur.
www.benoitlabourdette.com - Eli Commins, director of Lieu unique, national stage of Nantes.
www.lelieuunique.com - Guillaume Soulard, artistic and cultural director of the Tjibaou cultural center, Nouméa.
www.adck.nc - Céline Berthoumieux, director of Zinc and co-director of the Chroniques biennial, president of the National Network of Hybrid Arts and Digital Cultures, Marseille.
www.snzn.org - https://hacnum.org/- https://chroniques.org/ - Vincent Guillon, co-director of the Observatoire des politiques culturelles, associate researcher at PACTE, Grenoble.
- Philippe Teillet, lecturer in political science at Sciences Po Grenoble, researcher at PACTE, CNRS, Grenoble Alpes University.
The books I published and the collective books I participated in. To the extent possible, these books can be downloaded here in PDF format.
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Defending culture differently: methods for tomorrow
Free book by Benoît Labourdette (PDF, 520 pages, 2025). BIP Éditions.
Download the book for freeThis book, based on my regular posts on my website, is addressed to those who work daily in the French cultural (…) -
Creating, thinking and writing screenplays today
Guide to screenwriting (free digital book, by Benoît Labourdette).
In our world where artificial intelligences directly create films from the desires of their authors expressed in very few words, in this world (…) -
Fragments-images
Contes philosophiques du quotidien (livre téléchargeable gratuitement).
Images écrites du monde qui évoquent et construisent des pensées philosophiques, glanées au fil des rencontres et des chocs dont la vie est (…) -
To make culture - From fathers to peers
Collective book under the direction of Pierre Brini and Emmanuel Vergès. Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 2021.
Findings, analyses and proposals to make cultural policies evolve towards the redefinition of their meaning in the contemporary world, towards (…) -
Calligrams
Collection of poems (free download).
Musical inspiration and graphic matter. It is the matter of a sound associated with the matter of the handwriting which give birth to the text. (…) -
Notes on moving picture
Essay (free download).
A selection, a collection of notes by Benoît Labourdette on the creation of moving images and on creation in general, gleaned over the course of (…) -
Theorem 29: “Mobiles: artistic and aesthetic issues”
Under the direction of Laurence Allard, Laurent Creton and Roger Odin.
Publication by Benoît Labourdette of the article « The UAV, a creative tool » in the collective book “Theorem 29:”Mobiles: artistic and aesthetic (…) -
Book: “Image education 2.0”
Practical guide (free download).
“Image education 2.0” (under the direction of Benoît Labourdette), practical book of image education in the digital age, published by ACAP. Free (…) -
Book : “Mobile phone and creation”
Collective book to which I contributed, with the article “From economy to the conversation and audiovisual creation”. Publication Date : 19 (…) -
Little Book #2: “Films in the pocket” (Zinc - Friche La Belle de Mai - Marseille / France)
Testimonials (free download).
Bilan-outlook-thoughts on a creative project with mobile phones led in Marseille.Book co-written by Benoît Labourdette and Claire Duport. (…) -
Book : “Shoot a movie with your mobile phone”
The first complete guide to filmmaking with mobile phones, Dixit publishing in 2008, which remains a reference. Free download.Download the (…) -
“Studying your own film: learning and issues”
Master’s thesis (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III - 1995)
My master’s thesis, written at the age of 25, about the audio post-production of my first feature film « Head in the water ». Direction : Pierre (…)
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Reinventing cultural projects with youth? Proposal of questions.
While public cultural action aims to reach people in their great diversity, it is clear that it is often difficult to mobilize youth. However, (…) -
Helping professionals design new types of projects adapted to the needs of young people Laboratory for an original training and project development program.
In the face of young people’s indifference toward institutional culture, I propose exploring an innovative training framework aimed at helping (…) -
For a virtuous dispersal of the cultural sector The end of traditional cultural influence.
The cultural sector is going through a major crisis that reveals a paradigm shift. In my opinion, we must now cultivate culture everywhere, in all (…) -
Cultural data and cultural rights For an inclusive heritage democracy in the digital age.
Citizen cultural data is tomorrow’s heritage. Their recognition and preservation constitute a major democratic challenge for building a (…) -
Cultural Rights and Digital Discoverability For a cultural policy adapted to digital spaces.
Faced with the failure of many institutional digital cultural strategies, cultural rights and its corollary cultural democracy seem to me to be (…)
