Arts Institutions and the Future of Civic Learning

波罗的海是通过英国艺术委员会(ACE)的一项战略而出现的，该战略旨在创建东北之门，其职责是接触该地区的社区，向他们介绍当代艺术，并成为更广泛的城市复兴战略的一部分。在REACH将重新思考，在当前东北的经济和政治背景下，当代艺术和文化如何为该地点及其社区提供代理、机会和享受。这项研究将考察波罗的海这样的组织可能如何修改模型，从‘接触’到成员，再到‘接触’，以审查和重新配置文化机构政策、协议和决策过程。这项研究将探索特定社区的文化生产的替代模式--寻找社区将他们的知识、创造力和想象力发挥到桌面上的方法，从外到内、自下而上创造更有效的网络。

The Baltic emerged through an Arts Council England (ACE) strategy to create a Tate of the North East with a remit to reach out to communities in the region to introduce them to contemporary art and was part of a wider urban regeneration strategy. In Reach will rethink, in the current economic and political context of the North East how contemporary art and culture offers the location and its communities agency, opportunity and enjoyment. The research will examine how organisations like Baltic might revise the model from 'reaching out' to constituents to 'reaching in' to examine and reconfigure cultural institutional policies, protocols and decision-making processes. This research will explore alternative models of cultural production in specific communities - to find ways in which communities can bring their knowledge, creation and imagination to the table, creating more effective networks from the outside in, and bottom up.