pilot example of how to use the benchmark

Multilingual Library of the Year

Pilot example of how to use the benchmark

Vision and Policy

•Financing?

Project funding (random) Ear marked resource

•Documentation?

Visibility of policies

Visitors/Audiences •Gather data and statistics?

How do you learn to know your visitors and community

•Encourage participation?

Focus groups, dialogues

Partners •Who are your partners and networks?

Formal and informal

Staff How do you ensure the competence in your staff?

Feedback

•Complex tool

•Adapt it to your needs

•Develop question

•Criteria for assessment instead of gut feeling

Sweden in numbers •Population 2014: 9 728 498

• 28 % has a foreign background • Immigration mainly from the Nordic countries, 50% from Finland • 14 % from Africa, Asia or South America • In Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö approx. 60% has a foreign background and between 40-55% of the young population • In the municipalities of Botkyrka and Malmö the majority of the inhabitants has foreign background

Source: Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB)

Normcritical voices diversity controllers

Museerna och Mångfalden av Riksutställningar

An analysis of the museum sector, how the sector can support and include the potential of diversity in Sweden.

Professor Joanna Rubin Dranger – The power of visual images

Complexities • Stereotypes visible in culture

• Increased representation but also intercultural competence • Power and increased influence • Mobilization of the anti-racist movement • Norms and white privileges are questioned •Structural discrimination

A question about power

and influence

BROKERING MIGRANTS’

CULTURAL PARTICIPATION

In Sweden- 11 cultural institutions; museums, libraries, performing arts – and culture houses.

Benchmark – pilot at libraries

The Multilingual Library of the Year

BROKERING MIGRANTS’

CULTURAL PARTICIPATION

Increase the capacity to engage people with migrant background in cultural institutions. Increase the legitimacy for the institution. • Benchmark tool • Interviews • Learning partnership workshops • National conference the 8th December • Opinionmaking and advocacy • European conference in Barcelona, June 2015

Välkomna!

CONCLUSIONS-

INFLUENCE AND POWER

• Key factor - recruitment

• Demands from public funders - consequences

• Evaluation and measurable data

• Core activities not projects

• Legitimacy and relevance

THANK YOU!

bella.lawson@regionvasterbotten.se

and

ida.buren@intercult.se