Arts and the Market: Volume 14 Issue 1

Guest editorial: The uses and misuses of the evaluation of cities and capitals of culture

Alexandra Oancă, Franco Bianchini, Juliet Simpson, Enrico Tommarchi, David Wright

Creating the baseline: data relations and frictions of UK City of Culture evaluation

Daniel Ashton, Ronda Gowland-Pryde, Silke Roth, Fraser Sturt

Socioeconomic aims and impacts are an explicit part of the UK City of Culture (UKCoC) application, bidding, delivery and evaluation stages. This article engages with existing…

Towards an “Evaluation Dilemmas Model” – designing an evaluation scheme for a European capital of culture

Hans-Peter Degn, Steven Hadley, Louise Ejgod Hansen

During the evaluation of European Capital of Culture (ECoC) Aarhus 2017, the evaluation organisation rethinkIMPACTS 2017 formulated a set of “dilemmas” capturing the main…

Reading relationally: a proposal for relational-comparative research concerning city/capital of culture events

Barbara Grabher

García and Cox (2013) have clarified that there is an urgent need for comparative studies of city/capital of culture (COC) events. With the ambition to foster exchange and…

Participant-oriented evaluation through participatory action research: a case study of a community engagement approach

Szilvia Nagy

This article explores the applicability of participatory action research (PAR) on two levels: on the one hand, as a participatory evaluation method for community engagement and…

Measuring the changes: how can a perceived cultural mega-event evidence its “value”? Insights from implementing evaluation methodologies for Coventry 2021

Mark Scott, Jonothan Neelands, Haley Beer, Ila Bharatan, Tim Healey, Nick Henry, Si Chun Lam, Richard Tomlins

It is well known that culture is a catalyst for change, helping economies respond to societal problems and demands and that culture is where people turn to in moments of crisis…