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Diversity Compass | Insights from the 360° programme

The need for more diversity in cultural institutions is great: cultural institutions have the task of creating cultural participation and an attractive cultural offer for all parts of the heterogeneous urban society. But how can this task best be tackled? What resources must be made available for this? And how do you achieve sustainable change?

These and other questions have been asked since 2018 by the 39 cultural institutions funded in the German Federal Cultural Foundation’s programme “360°- Fund for New City Cultures “. For four years, theaters, museums and libraries have developed measures for more diversity in staff, programme and audience and tested them in their working reality. The empirical findings from this multi-year process are now published in the Diversity Compass on almost 100 pages and made available to the broad cultural landscape in a clear and practical way. 

At the center of the publication is a list of effective measures, which include, for example, the establishment of a staff unit for diversity, the development of external advisory bodies and the further development of communication channels. In addition, diversity officers from three 360° institutions describe how the transformation process can be made effective and sustainable and what role new work cultures and cooperation structures play in this process. Using concrete case studies, the publication shows how individually the implementation of the measures must be shaped on site and how indispensable flexibility, resilience and the willingness to change roles are in the diversity-oriented opening of cultural institutions.

 

 

 

 

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