Created in March 2007, the Forum d’Avignon is a think tank and also an international meeting place in the service of culture and its dialogue with the economic and digital fields. Its mission is to re-emphasize that culture is simultaneously a financial, collective, and individual investment and not a cost, and through its basic characteristics — artistic, economic, and social — culture participates directly in the development of economy and territories.
As the only organizational opportunity for all the cultural and creative sectors in Europe to link up and hold discussions, it brings together an important network of artists and creators, entrepreneurs and institutions, politicians and academics, international consultancy firms, and students from about 15 European schools and universities, thanks to the support of some 50 private partners, businesses and individuals.
Bringing concrete proposals to meet the artistic, economic and social stakes of culture. The think tank gathers all year long partners and experts in working sessions and public interventions several times a month to develop the future of the cultural and creative sector around three fields of research:
Fostering the public debate. Since its creation, the think tank has:
Every area of work is the subject of studies, interviews, argued and quantified proposals and op-eds. Its Scientific board allows to link these working sessions to academic research.
The think tank creates every year thematic working sessions involving personalities from all horizons of its community, with the mission of generating innovative reflections and to make programmatic proposals at the attention of cultural leaders as well as of the general public.
Its exclusive international studies or surveys rely on hundreds of interviews, comparisons and cartographies, intended to encourage the public debate on topical issues or prospective societal questions, relayed at the national and international levels.
Consumer surveys: every year, the Forum d’Avignon produces consumer surveys that allow determining trends in the field of culture and cultural industries.
L'Atelier BNP Paribas: Big Data: Big Culture?
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The imperative of moving towards business-model hybridisation
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Generation #hashtag : a new wave of content in the age of digital natives
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The question of ownership of personal data is at the heart of this year’s Forum d’Avignon.
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Instantaneity, hyper-choice, innovation.
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How does sharing data contribute to improving the way we experience our day-to-day lives in the city?
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Create, share and protect.
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The age of curation : From abundance to discovery
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Culture, territories and Powers - The spirit of Atlas
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How harmony can triumph over cacophony.
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Cultural behavior and personal data
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After the Big data revolution comes a second centered upon Open data and sharing
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Creators, producers, distributors Who really has overall control ?
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Update of the first report published in 2010.
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