At the kick-off event of the Factor K [link in German] research line of the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE), everything revolved around exchange and networking. Over the next three years, 22 projects will identify conditions for success and success factors for art, culture and creative work in rural areas, strengthen cultural networks together with regional actors and raise the potential of culture as a resource for coping with transformation processes.
The projects focus on a wide range of topics - from cultural ideas and images of the rural to the influence of intangible cultural heritage on rural development and the role of cultural administrations in rural areas.
Together with its partner, the Department of Empirical Cultural Studies/Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bonn, the Institute for Rural Structural Research is part of the Faktor K project family with the AMuRaKK project.
In the project Actor Networks and Multifunctional Spaces of Art, Culture and Creative Work in Rural Regions, we are investigating how actor constellations from cultural work, administration and civil society design and use multifunctional spaces (e.g. converted empty spaces or multifunctional houses) in rural areas, and how an exchange and cultural participation of different actor groups is made possible in these places.
The projects are funded by the BULEplus programme of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL).
Contact persons at the IfLS: Dr Ulrich Gehrlein (gehrlein[at]ifls.de), Oliver Müller (mueller[at]ifls.de)
