The international conference “Social impact: people at the heart of cultural organisations” took place on December 6, 2023, at the Iscte Grand Auditorium in Lisbon. This recording concerns the presentations by Clara Frayão Camacho, Maria Amélia Fernandes, Flora Maravalhas, José Soares Neves, Catarina Vaz Pinto, Maria de Assis Swinnerton, Manuel Gama.
The conference aims to present and critically discuss the Commitment to the Social Impact of Cultural Organisations (CISOC), a public policy measure in the Strategic Plan of the National Arts Plan. It is a new instrument to support the planning and self-evaluation of cultural organisations that helps to identify their needs and potential, as well as to analyse and monitor the results achieved.
The conference is a time for public sharing of the principles, concepts, themes and methodologies on which CISOC is structured and the options taken, in comparison with ideas and practices in the field of the social impacts of culture, in order to find joint paths for their implementation.
Its main target audiences are political decision-makers; managers and technicians in the cultural sector, heritage institutions and artistic creation and production, namely museums, monuments, libraries, archives, theatres, cinemas, art centres and cultural centres; researchers; members of third sector organisations; teachers and students.
