By 2023, France will have 3,500 Third-Party Centers, 30% of them cultural. These multi-faceted initiatives are part of the long history of popular education and the social economy, and echo the practices of intermediate, independent and communal places.
As places for shared work, collective production, citizen mobilization, artistic creation and dissemination, sports practice or catering, third places place at the heart of their operation and programming the issues of social cohesion, citizen involvement and cultural rights, hybridization and transition.
Third-party cultural venues offer an experience of arts and culture where residents can be both observers and players, and where artists can access independent work spaces that meet their needs in terms of creative freedom and encounters with uninitiated audiences, particularly in the field of music.
The aim of this conference is to present and debate with these players, who continue to grow in all regions and on all scales:
- How do these third places question the place of art and culture in society?
- How does culture, and more specifically music, fit into these spaces?
- How can we rethink the use of a place through its design/rehabilitation, and how do its new activities fit into the existing fabric of a neighborhood/territory?
- How are cultural third places organized in terms of economic models and governance?
