Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- An Introduction to Cultural Policy in the Polder
- A Well-Balanced Cultural Policy: An Interview with Minister of Culture Ingrid van Engelshoven
- 1 Legal Aspects of Cultural Policy
- 2 An International Perspective on Dutch Cultural Policy
- ‘A Subsidy to Make a Significant Step Upwards’: An Interview with Arjo Klingens
- 3 The Framing Game: Towards Deprovincialising Dutch Cultural Policy
- 4 Values in Cultural Policymaking: Political Values and Policy Advice
- An Exercise in Undogmatic Thinking: An Interview with Gable Roelofsen
- 5 Towards a Cultural Policy of Trust: The Dutch Approach from the Perspective of a Transnational Civil Domain
- 6 Dutch Media Policy: Towards the End of Reflective Diversity?
- ‘A More Holistic Approach to Problems’: An Interview with Hans Poll and Jacqueline Roelofs
- 7 Cultural Education Policy: Its Justification and Organisation
- 8 Culture for Everyone: The Value and Feasibility of Stimulating Cultural Participation
- ‘A Strong Field Needs Variation and Experimentation’: An Interview with Saskia Bak
- 9 The People's Palaces: Public Libraries in the Information Society
- 10 Cultural Policy at a Crossroads?: How the Matthew Effect, New Sociocultural Oppositions and Digitalisation Challenge Dutch National Cultural Policy
- ‘Production is Preceded by Talent Development’: An Interview with Sandra den Hamer
- Epilogue: A Systemic View of Dutch Cultural Policy in the Next 25 Years
- Overview of Dutch Ministers of / Secretaries for Culture and their most important Cultural Policy Documents
- Appendix: Facts and Figures on Culture and Cultural Policy in the Netherlands
- Authors’ Biographies
- Index
‘A More Holistic Approach to Problems’: An Interview with Hans Poll and Jacqueline Roelofs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- An Introduction to Cultural Policy in the Polder
- A Well-Balanced Cultural Policy: An Interview with Minister of Culture Ingrid van Engelshoven
- 1 Legal Aspects of Cultural Policy
- 2 An International Perspective on Dutch Cultural Policy
- ‘A Subsidy to Make a Significant Step Upwards’: An Interview with Arjo Klingens
- 3 The Framing Game: Towards Deprovincialising Dutch Cultural Policy
- 4 Values in Cultural Policymaking: Political Values and Policy Advice
- An Exercise in Undogmatic Thinking: An Interview with Gable Roelofsen
- 5 Towards a Cultural Policy of Trust: The Dutch Approach from the Perspective of a Transnational Civil Domain
- 6 Dutch Media Policy: Towards the End of Reflective Diversity?
- ‘A More Holistic Approach to Problems’: An Interview with Hans Poll and Jacqueline Roelofs
- 7 Cultural Education Policy: Its Justification and Organisation
- 8 Culture for Everyone: The Value and Feasibility of Stimulating Cultural Participation
- ‘A Strong Field Needs Variation and Experimentation’: An Interview with Saskia Bak
- 9 The People's Palaces: Public Libraries in the Information Society
- 10 Cultural Policy at a Crossroads?: How the Matthew Effect, New Sociocultural Oppositions and Digitalisation Challenge Dutch National Cultural Policy
- ‘Production is Preceded by Talent Development’: An Interview with Sandra den Hamer
- Epilogue: A Systemic View of Dutch Cultural Policy in the Next 25 Years
- Overview of Dutch Ministers of / Secretaries for Culture and their most important Cultural Policy Documents
- Appendix: Facts and Figures on Culture and Cultural Policy in the Netherlands
- Authors’ Biographies
- Index
Summary
‘Embracing the future’ is the main goal of the Groninger Forum, the new cultural centre in the heart of the city which will be completed by the middle of 2019. The impressive building will host a range of cultural institutions and functions, including the city library, a movie theatre, Storyworld (a museum of comic strips, animation and games) and debates. The marketing and programme director, Hans Poll: ‘The Groninger Forum is to become an easily accessible meeting place for curious people of all ages and backgrounds. The programming will focus on three domains: current affairs & society, popular culture, and knowledge & technology. With our programming, we want to prepare people for the future by giving them an opportunity to get acquainted with the many new developments that are facing us. Themes that will be covered include nanotechnology, robotisation, artificial intelligence and popular image culture. Our principle is that it's better to have a future that you can see coming than a future that happens to you.’
The aim is to achieve integral programming whenever possible, combining the strengths of the individual functions in the shape of workshops, playgrounds, courses, exhibitions, lectures and master classes. Poll remarks that they are ‘always playful and accessible, because fun is a condition for success.’ There are literally no walls between the library, exhibition space, debate area and movie theatre. ‘We are a single organisation and not a kind of multi-tenant office building. That makes it possible to highlight themes in a joined-up and multidisciplinary way,’ he explains.
It is not only the Forum's programming that is geared towards meetings and interaction but also the striking new building. There will be activities aimed especially at audiences who are less likely to visit the city centre, such as families with children. ‘It's no longer at the football club that we meet each other but at the library and soon also at the Groninger Forum,’ says Poll. ‘We have deliberately opted for an easily accessible building with a transparent column in the centre of an entrance hall which works its way up ten floors in the shape of an apple corer.’ Attached to this column are multiple ‘plazas’ providing space for the library, interactive installations or workshops. ‘And catering facilities, of course’.
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- Cultural Policy in the Polder25 Years Dutch Cultural Policy Act, pp. 165 - 168Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2018