Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Culture System

Building Capable, Relevant and Sustainable Cultural Institutions

Av Patrick Duffy, Sara Vuletic

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Beskrivning

Cultural institutions are undermore pressure than ever-to justify their value, broaden participation, remainfinancially viable, andrespond to complex social and civicexpectations. At the same time, they are often expected to do all these usingstructures, habits, and assumptions inherited from a very different era. Culture System argues that thechallenge facing the cultural sector today is not a lack of purpose,creativity, or commitment-but a lack of coherence.This book introduces asystems-based way of understanding how cultural institutions actually work: howleadership, organization design, capability, capacity, governance, and publicvalue interact-often unintentionally-to shape what culture becomes in practice.It shows why effort and goodwill are no longer sufficient strategies and whyresilience must give way to institutional maturity.Written for cultural leaders,boards, funders, policymakers, and practitioners, Culture System blends sectorinsight with organizational rigor. It offers a clear-eyed critique of familiarpressures-burnout, mission stretch, incremental change-while remaining deeplyrespectful of culture's values and civic role.Through cultural leadership andpractice-based insight, practical tools, and accessible frameworks, the bookhelps institutions move from fragmentation to alignment, from aspiration todelivery, and from survival to sustainability. Thisis not a manual for managing culture. It's an invitation to treat culture asseriously as it deserves-as a system that must be designed with care-to remainmeaningful, credible, and publicly trusted.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2026-02-28
Mått: 55 x 85 x 13 mm
Vikt: 303 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 236
Förlag: Vita Viri Publishing
ISBN: 9781919268675

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Sara Vuletic is an art and culture strategistworking at the intersection of cultural production, institutional leadership,and public value. Trained as a musician and curator, she has led and deliveredmajor cultural programmes and large-scale initiatives across Europe and theMiddle East, including a central role in Novi Sad, European Capital of Culture.She has served as UNESCO Media Arts Focal Point and ledinternational programme partnerships, with experience spanning cultural policy,institutional development, and cross-sector collaboration. Trained in Arabiclanguage and literature and cultural policy and management through the UNESCOChair programme, her work focuses on the organizational and governanceconditions that enable cultural institutions to remain credible, relevant, andsustainable.Dr. Patrick Duffy is an organization scientist,advisor, and author whose work focuses on organizational capability,governance, and performance. His career spans senior leadership, consulting,and research roles across services-led companies, public administration, NGOs,and the cultural and heritage sectors.He holds a doctorate in organization science and is knownfor helping institutions diagnose and address capability, capacity, andoperating model challenges through evidence-based design. Duffy worksinternationally with leaders and boards to translate strategy into disciplinedorganizational practice, particularly in complex environments under pressure.

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