What is a cultural strategy?
In December 2019, the cultural administration was commissioned to develop an Innsbruck Cultural Strategy 2030 with broad public participation. The status quo in Innsbruck was examined and perspectives for the city's future cultural development were outlined. The goals, tasks and self-image of cultural policy, cultural administration and cultural scenes were also scrutinized. A cultural strategy is an important part of urban development, which is why relevant cross-sectional areas relating to art and culture are included.
What is the aim of the cultural strategy?
As a sustainable basis for cultural policy action in our city, the cultural strategy contains a vision, fields of action, goals and concrete measures for implementation. It is intended to serve as an orientation framework for those involved in politics, administration and the cultural scene.
Why a cultural strategy?
Action needs strategy!
If the city and its citizens agree on the important goals and measures and act accordingly, they will achieve more - this is especially true for the arts and culture agendas of a city, an area that is often affected by stagnating or declining public funding and in which there are many different interests and players.
Guidelines provide important orientation:
- For politicians and the administration: guidelines create clarity about the role of art and culture in the context of other tasks of the city and they support the targeted and prioritized use of public funds so that they have the greatest possible impact.
- For the arts and culture scenes: Cultural policy guidelines also provide orientation for their own work and political decisions, which are made on the basis of these guidelines and criteria and make them comprehensible and transparent.
What is the result of the cultural strategy?
In December 2022, the Innsbruck 2030 Cultural Strategy was adopted by the Innsbruck City Council. It is divided into a vision, fields of action, objectives and measures.
Result of the participation process
The groundwork and the result of the participation process served as a basis. The result of the participation process is an interim result that summarizes the participation process and contains recommendations and proposals for the development of the cultural strategy . It was published on March 31, 2022.
Groundwork
The groundwork summarizes the cultural status quo in Innsbruck at the beginning of the project, i.e. the status in 2020, when the process to develop a cultural strategy was launched. You can download it here.
Schedule
Here you will find the schedule for working on the individual topics:
2023
- Transparent presentation of all of the city's cultural expenditure according to the LIKUS system. The cultural expenditure reports can be found here.
- Development and launch of the first phase of the Fair Pay strategy
- Development of specific criteria for the allocation of cultural subsidies
- Improving the visibility of art and culture
- Development of a checklist for inclusion and accessibility for cultural institutions and events
- Redesigning the memorial to the camp complex in Rossau, tendering and holding a competition
2024
- Space for culture: stocktaking and needs assessment
- Facilitate the organization and implementation of events
- Intensify cooperation in the arts and culture sector with Innsbruck's partner cities
- Expansion of training and knowledge transfer measures for Innsbruck's arts and culture sector, with a focus on barrier-free cultural events
- Maintaining and expanding the culture of remembrance (in particular "gedenk_potenziale" and "Zeitpunkte")
- Redesign of the memorial to the camp complex in Rossau, completion of competition
2025
- Making existing cultural spaces accessible to as many stakeholders as possible
- Establishment of an exchange format between cultural practitioners, politics and administration
- Support for contemporary history research projects
- Developing proposals for diversity-oriented cultural promotion
- Planning "CoolTour days" for young people
- Redesign of the memorial to the camp complex in Rossau, implementation of project phase 1
Space for culture
The Innsbruck 2030 cultural strategy formulates the goal of creating space for culture in field of action 3. As a first step towards achieving this goal, the Kulturamt has commissioned an inventory of the cultural spaces available in Innsbruck as well as a needs assessment and the identification of deficits.
The next step is to develop a long-term strategy to improve the space situation for the arts and culture sector in Innsbruck and to offer cultural professionals uncomplicated access to the existing space options. The results of the space study have been available since November 2024.
Here you can find the inventory and needs assessment and the profiles of 101 cultural spaces in Innsbruck: