COSM 3: Cultural Management and 3 Dimensions of Sustainability: Environmental, Social and Economic (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

0-5

Content scheduling

Content (sessions 1-4) • Thresholds. Social dimensions of sustainability and audience-centric cultural public spaces • Beyond prepositions, assumptions and contradictions. Culture in, for or as Sustainability • Audience engagement, cultural management and sustainability values • Environmental and urban planning dimensions of sustainability and the role of cultural Ecosystems. • Social dimensions of Sustainability - Fair international cooperation - cultural production - cultural policy • Inter-generational aspect of sustainability – cultural management applications • Economic sustainability through cultural management lenses – global and local perspective • Cultural Tourism, Creative Tourism and Sustainability • Aesthetics and Sustainability • Cultural matters on the edge of protection and free access, conservation and change

Objective

Students are able to acknowledge, adapt and strengthen their role as cultural managers in supporting the general sustainability movement, impacting people’s and industries’ pro-ecological behaviours, assisting all types of attempts to make our life on Earth more sustainable, ethical, responsible or balanced – in environmental, social and economic sense.

Content

- Beyond prepositions, assumptions and contradictions. Culture in, for or as sustainability - Environmental and urban planning dimensions of sustainability and the role of cultural ecosystems - Cultural tourism and sustainability - Social dimensions of sustainability, cultural audiences and culture and arts professionals - Public health policies and cultural organisations – the pandemic lesson - Inter-generational aspect of sustainability – cultural management applications - Economic sustainability through cultural management lenses – global and local perspective - Cultural matters on the edge of protection and free access, conservation and change

Location and time

14.1 Tue, 13:00-17:00 EET (hybrid, Ilkantie in Helsinki and zoom session option) 21.1. Tue, 13:00-17:00 EET (online zoom session) 4.2 Tue, 13:00-17:00 EET (online zoom session) 25.2 Tue, 13:00-17:00 EET (hybrid, Ilkantie in Helsinki and zoom session option)

Materials

Hoodle platform content: texts and videos.

Teaching methods

As a blended learning process, it comprises of (a) 4 sessions with international and Finnish guest lecturers, facilitated by the host lecturer of the course, Dr Marcin Poprawski; (b) the access to the interactive Hoodle platform with the content to be studied by participants. The platform gives access to literature files, video materials, and digital sources. Webinars 1 and 4 (that gives a hybrid learning option) are organised in the classroom of Humak UAS in Helsinki and broadcasted life online as a zoom session, for those who can't attend it in the classroom. Webinars 2 and 3 are entirely online zoom webinars.

Employer connections

Students are able to acknowledge, adapt and strengthen their role as cultural managers in supporting the general sustainability movement, impacting people’s and industries’ proecological behaviours, assisting all types of attempts to make our life more sustainable, ethical, responsible or balanced – in environmental, social and economic sense. The course aim is to activate different streams of students' activity regarding culture & sustainability values: interaction, cooperation, reflection, written argumentation and dialogue in conversation. The course is a safe space for questioning the answers and providing solutions regarding cultural professionals’ role in balancing their ecosystems. It's above all about confronting cultural management practice with environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability. After completion of the course the participant: • can recognize unsustainable practices in cultural production and cultural management activities, • can share in her/his professional environment the essential questions, dilemmas, values, and content related to sustainability issues in cultural managers work, including environmental, social, and economic dimensions, • strengthens her/his role of cultural manager in supporting the general sustainability movement, impacting people’s and industries’ pro-ecological behaviours, assisting all types of attempts to make our life more sustainable, ethical, responsible, or balanced – in environmental, social, and economic sense, • can propose sustainability-oriented solutions, interact, fairly cooperate, reflect, write, and advocate regarding key sustainability related issues in cultural production practice in domestic and international contexts, • can provide sustainability-oriented proposals related to the intergenerational transmission of cultural values. • can recognise the key challenges of economic, social, and environmental sustainability in cultural and creative sectors, • can apply in cultural workplace some sustainability-oriented audience centric solutions with the use of audience development logic and terminology