An art-based approach to sustainability enables us to discover conditions that are important and overlooked
Culture Program - Prosperity through Arts, Culture, and Sports (PACS)
A Three-pronged Program
The Cultural Program Prosperity through Arts Culture and Sports (PACS) responds to the need for a resource center for the arts and culture industry. And much more. The development of the centre, or the programme, has taken place over two years, in collaboration with the stakeholders and municipalities. The aim is for all municipalities to be given the prerequisites to be a resource centre. With enough capacity to act, measure and learn together with others.
Action
By bringing the program to the local communities where the needs and opportunities exist, we achieve at least two things. Firstly, we ensure a local wood creation. In addition, we create live examples that can be evaluated and shared with others through the program's network.
Measuring
What effect do the arts and cultural actors have on local development and welfare? Without having a method to measure and value it is difficult to know what works. In choosing the method, we have aimed to further develop traditional planning and budgeting with an emphasis on alternative forms of "social capital".
Learning
Through action and measurement set into a system, we have laid a foundation for practical learning. Leaders and key people are invited to these learning arenas who, by virtue of their roles, can adjust local goals and measures, while at the same time facilitating broad participation.
Oppdal in front.
We learn from those who succeed, and repeat what works in new places
Oppdal was the first municipality to become part of the Culture Programme, and was chosen because the municipality already has measurable effects from a holistic investment in culture and sport, is doing far better than most smaller inland municipalities in Europe, and has established university municipality cooperation with NTNU.
