Cultural commons refer to the variety of artistic and cultural expressions that combine tangible (artifacts) and intangible (ideas, knowledge) elements. Since their first theorization, which was enabled by the establishment of knowledge commons more than ten years ago, many different aspects of the cultural and creative industries have been examined from a commons perspective. However, the scholarship on cultural commons may benefit from a 'regeneration' (in the vein of the IASC 2025 theme) toward the consolidation of its theory and methodologies.
Tangible and intangible expressions of arts and culture involve joint consumption and are often non-excludable. They present a variety of social dilemmas, and the traditional reliance on the State to address market failures in arts and culture may simply not work. Arts and culture require constant contribution to avoid depletion and continuous negotiation regarding the values and meanings these practices uphold.
This panel aims to collect state-of-the-art research on the cultural and creative industries from a Bloomington institutional perspective. We welcome both empirical and theoretical work on co-production, institutional analysis development framework, polycentric governance, collective action dilemmas, the cultural civil society, and more.
