Culture for Development Directory

The impact of civil society models on museum management and leadership

Lord, Gail Dexter | ca. 2004]
  • Author(s): Lord, Gail Dexter
  • Publisher: Lord cultural resources
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: museology, civil society, management research
A discussion of reasons for museums to move to a civil society model in which museums are directly accountable to social networks. Examples of museums where this is implemented, characteristics of these museums with a look at management and leadership.

From cultural resources to cultural capital

Lord, Gail Dexter | [2010]
  • Author(s): Lord, Gail Dexter
  • Publisher: Lord cultural resources
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: museums, cultural heritage, culture, economic development
In this keynote presentation, the museum planner Gail Dexter Lord will draw on her firm's experience of more than 1,800 cultural projects in 45 countries over 30 [year]s to elaborate a scientific approach to the development of museums in this period of unprecedented cultural change.

The impact of cultural change on museums, museum planning & museum studies

Lord, Gail Dexter | 2011
  • Author(s): Lord, Gail Dexter
  • Publisher: Lord cultural resources
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: cultural dynamics, museums, culture, organizational structure
A presentation of Gail Dexter Lord at the Japan Museum Management Academy (JMMA) conference, which took place at the National Tokyo Museum on February 20, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan.

Museums outside-in : the second Stephen E. Weil memorial lecture

Lord, Gail Dexter | 2007
  • Author(s): Lord, Gail Dexter
  • Publisher: Lord cultural resources]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: museology, museums
Second in the Stephen E. Weil Memorial lecture series, this paper discusses how more and more museums are operating on a civil society model and what the implications of this are.

Culture and development : a new paradigm

Losito, Cristina | 2000
  • Author(s): Losito, Cristina
  • Publisher: Community arts network (CAN)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: cultural development, cultural co-operation, cultural exchanges, theory of knowledge
This article analyses the meaning of the expression \"cultural development\" as it is currently understood in Europe following the publication of two seminal texts: Our Creative Diversity and In from the Margins, respectively produced by UNESCO and the Council of Europe.
 

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