Le programme des villes britanniques de la culture : commerce ou commun ?

Does culture have transformative power to make the Olympic Games sustainable?

“…Since the 2000 s, even more than sport, culture has moved to the centre of the regeneration agenda (cultural events, infrastructure, and industries) as an important growth sector not only for local economic development and tourism attractivity but also social inclusion (Evans, 2001;Doustaly, 2008). However, many such ventures have attracted criticism as too commercial and unsustainable (Doustaly, 2022;Wilks-Heeg and North 2004). The association of regeneration with sustainable development has led to a new paradigm articulating regeneration, investment, and enterprise to target lasting social and economic impacts (Smith, 2012;Wise and Whittam 2015).…”

“…Local actors have identified cultural multiscalar projects as an opportunity to articulate a singular if plural local identity and to produce commons as well as commerce (Doustaly, 2022). Olympic interventions can overpass global city competition to draw on sport and cultural event as cultural practices, generating local participation and appropriation: 'the Olympic Games produce a kaleidoscopic range of intangible and quasi-religious engagements with place and spectacle' (Robinson and Ploner, 2017), acting as collective identity and memory-producing machines working through discursive and performative reinventions of tradition.…”