RECHARGE Diary
In this section you will read updated contents and news about our project and its implementation.
Here is a taste of the willow workshops held by the Hunt Museum as part of their Living Lab. These workshops served to connect people with an ancient heritage craft, using a natural material native to Ireland. They would do this while learning new skills, and learning about biodiversity – and then taking home a beautiful objects they made themselves!
On August 17, a part of the RECHARGE team went on tour to Limerick, to take part in The Hunt Museum RECHARGE Living Labs business model testing process: a willow weaving workshop.
The workshop was structured as an all-day drop-in session, where people could come, register and take part in the activity experienced willow artist Lynn Kirkham devised for the audience: weaving a reproduction of a significant object part of the museum collection: a Mhuc Dhubh, a fantastic animal - a black pig - that held a central role in many Celtic legends and in the irish Samhain, the season when real and under w...
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The 22nd International Conference on Cultural Economics, organized by the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI) on a biennial basis, is consolidated as the main academic forum in the field of Cultural Economics.This year, the event took place in Bloomington, Indiana, US, with the Centre for Cultural Affairs of Indiana University as the local organizer. The scientific program was coordinated by Luis César Herrero, President-Elect of the ACEI and head UVA team in the RECHARGE project.
More than 150 academic papers were presented on a wide range of topics, from economic valuation...
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Participation is one of the key components of RECHARGE’s practices aimed at involving communities in defining the most viable and valuable business model for a specific institution.
Participation refers to taking an active part in a project, an activity, or a process in which the participants’ contribution has an influence on the process and/or the outcomes of the entire endeavour. Participation can take a form of various levels of involvement — from small short-term contributions, through larger involvement over a longer period of time, to long-standing relationships between the institution a...
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