MIAAW.net
Miaaw.net: four monthly series, one a week, audio essays, conversations and discussions about cultural democracy and the commons.
Week 1: Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse
Week 2: Genuine Inquiry
Week 3: A Culture of Possibility
Week 4: Common Practice
What is cultural democracy? How can we move towards it? How likely are we to achieve it? What does it have to do with "the arts"? What does it have to do with a post-digital future? What does it have to do with the commons?
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 284
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
A pre-history of cultural democracy
Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly look back at some of the thinking that led to the development of the idea of cultural democracy, and the ways in which the community arts movement nurtured these ideas.
Beyond the manifesto: a new deal for the arts
Kieran Curran has written an important essay in the online journal New Socialist, that suggests how the Labour Party manifesto of 2017 might be extended and improved in its commitment to culture. …
Reflections on The World Transformed & Social Tools
The World Transformed took place in Liverpool in September 2018, just three days before Social Tools took place in Helsinki. Sophie Hope managed to attend both of them.
Cultural democracy in practice
Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly look at the recent report by 64 Million Artists, and the responses it has drawn; and wonder what they thought they were up to.