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About this site

A meeting place for culture, ideas and public life.

Forum Avignon is an editorial resource that brings together conversations, research and programme records about cultural and creative activity, its economies and its role in society.

People gathered for a thoughtful public discussion
An resource of encounters, questions and shared work.

The resource in context

What is Forum Avignon?

Forum Avignon documents exchange between the cultural and creative sectors and the economic, civic and digital fields that shape their future.

The collection preserves material from international meetings, thematic research and public discussions. Its purpose is not to close a debate, but to make its questions available for further reading, comparison and use.

Across the resource, culture appears in three connected dimensions: as artistic expression, as a social practice and as an economic activity. This perspective links creators, organisations, researchers, entrepreneurs and public decision-makers without reducing the subject to a single discipline.

Exchange

Different professional and intellectual perspectives meet around shared cultural questions.

Research

Surveys and reports provide context for decisions about creation, access, data and sustainable activity.

Continuity

Programme records keep past conversations available as resources for new readers.

A public record of connected questions

The resource moves between intellectual property, cultural entrepreneurship, economic models, digital rights, territorial change and social cohesion. Together, these subjects show how cultural life is connected to the conditions in which people create, participate and organise.

Use the sections below to follow a theme, revisit a meeting or begin with the publication catalogue.

A brief orientation

The Forum Avignon programme begins as a space for dialogue around culture and the wider economy.

The resource expands its attention to digital change, territorial questions and international exchange.

The material remains available as an open editorial resource for research and public discussion.

Questions about the resource?

Keep the conversation moving.

For editorial enquiries, access questions or information about the collections, contact Forum Avignon.

info@forum-avignon.en-html.org