Glammons

Online Workshop: Commons-Based Practices in Cultural and Creative Sectors: An Introduction to Skills-Building by Glammons

📅 September 17th, 2025 | ⏰ 3 PM CET | Online

At a time when cultural & creative sectors face huge shifts — social change, digital disruption, declining trust, rampant commercialization & sustainability pressures — how can we redefine them to better serve our communities? 🤝

Join us for an interactive workshop to explore:

➡️ How to develop models that involve sharing responsibility and management practices with the community?
➡️ What are the obstacles in institutional transformation and how to overcome them?
➡️ How can we build sustainable relationships of trust in our communities or between audiences and organisations?
➡️ What skills do we need for co-management and collaborative practices in cultural production and how do we get them?

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⚡Exciting News ⚡
Our podcast is out now!

GLAMMONS – Towards the GLAMs of the Commons explores how galleries, libraries, archives & museums can become true spaces of the commons and now you can listen to exciting examples from our case studies!

In our first episode, we dive into the inspiring case of Cultural Center Magacin in Belgrade through an interview with Olja Nikolić Kia. Together, we explore how Magacin challenges traditional management by embracing collaborative governance and co-leadership. As a vibrant cultural Commons, Magacin is collectively run by its users – artists, activists, and community members – who decide together how to shape and sustain the space. Tune in to hear firsthand how this decentralized model fosters creativity, inclusivity, and shared responsibility in the heart of Serbia’s cultural scene!

You can listen to the episode here:

Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/78DVmkqHZPcpKmZc9msQQd?si=e0b931b1b9b64f43
Soundcloud – https://on.soundcloud.com/dJa6mGYh98rhSnz5s0
Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/glammons-towards-the-glams-of-the-commons/id1825099788

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Tomorrow, Lyudmila Petrova (Creare NL) will be presenting at Philea - Philanthropy European Association webinar on "The Heart of Culture: Measuring Value Beyond Statistics".

Why do arts and culture matter? With the artistic and cultural fields coming under increasing scrutiny comes the need to spell out and justify the value of arts and culture. The 2024 State of Culture report demonstrates how the “intrinsic” value remains challenging to articulate in policy terms yet the instrumentalisation of culture, recognised as a driver for non-cultural issues, is a major growing trend across European and national policies.

“As cultural policy is tuned to serve multiple external goals, cultural activities and practices have come under the quantitative measurement” - State of Culture. Artists and cultural institutions are increasingly pressured by funders to demonstrate their achievements at the conclusion of a project, which fails to capture the long-term effects of arts and culture.

How is philanthropy tackling the challenge of recognising the value of arts and culture beyond quantitative data? Are funders contributing to expressing art’s impact in numbers? What are the practices in terms of monitoring, evaluation and learning that foundations can implement to avoid instrumentalising the field and putting their partners in the complex position to predict and calculate the transformative effect of their work?

She will present the value-based approach methodology and its application in the GLAMMONS.



Technische Universität Berlin; Πάντειον Πανεπιστήμιο, Πρύτανις - Panteion University, Rector; Mazomos Landscape & Heritage Consultants; European Creative Hubs Network; Nova Iskra; BSB - Burgundy School of Business; Creare NL

Arts and Culture Funders Forum - The Heart of Culture: Measuring Value Beyond Statistics - Philea The Arts and Culture Funders Forum will host “The Heart of Culture: Measuring Value Beyond Statistics”, online on 15 April, the second webinar in the new “Cultural Philanthropy in Action” series. Why do arts and culture matter? With the artistic and cultural fields coming under increasing sc...