93-836 International Perspectives on Managing Arts and Heritage
6 units, Carnegie Mellon University
Arts management faces enormous differences in contexts across the world. While systematically detailing these differences would require a whole program on its own, this course will provide a basic understanding of the variety of contexts within an international comparative view, providing some basic analytical tools and developing skills to deal with these aspects. The focus will be on countries other than the US assuming that CMU students already get a deep knowledge of the domestic reality based on extensive field research in the last two decades, case studies provided are outside the realm of influence of the common law and commonwealth tradition. A first set of differences refers to ways in which management itself is conceptualized and taught, with a different emphasis given to some basic notions e.g. the notion of leadership as opposed to a view of management as social practices the role of goals versus processes. Moreover, serious variations in managing are related to the different role played by philanthropy, the market or the state elements of public administration are needed to interact with these different contexts different meanings assumed by cultural polices also need to be understood. Finally, cultural heritage in particular represents an important chapter in arts management in countries that place a greater emphasis on history and cultural traditions. Dealing with heritage requires additional knowledge and skills e.g. interacting with archaeologists, historians, museologists and attention to delicate issues of balance between preservation and uses, fragile issues of long term sustainability, and soft implications in terms of identity building.
Prerequisites: none listed
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