Periferica International. Journal for cultural and territorial analysis

Mondiacult 2025: The new agenda of cultural multilateralism

Félix Manito — 2025-12-09

Barcelona hosted the latest edition of Mondiacult, the World Conference on Cultural Policies, promoted by UNESCO. This article is a chronicle of the development of the conference and the side events, as well as of the debates that have led to the adoption of the final document of Mondiacult 2025, which will set the global agenda of cultural policies. It also reflects on his legacy and the great challenges of cultural multilateralism linked to climate action and the Eurocentric cultural framework, as well as to Artificial Intelligence.

In dialogue and transition: [PACESETTERS] At a moment when multiple urgencies shake old certainties, it is time to look out and enter into new ties.

Florian Schneider — 2026-01-09

PACESETTERS is a research project that brings together partners and places, creative practice and research
perspectives that are out of the ordinary: climate scientists and artistic entrepreneurs, difficult heritages and whitewashed
villages, psychometrically validated surveys and circular aesthetics. In this article we explore the key concepts underpinning
PACESETTERS to not just adapt to but drive the transition into more just and sustainable economies. Genalguacil’s public
museum foundation, Galway’s art festival, and Nowa Huta’s cultural centre C.K. Norwida may be small-scale organisations
but they are lean, flexible and experienced enough to produce huge effects and impacts in their communities and beyond.

Towards a Culture of Rights: Reflections and Proposals Regarding the Cultural Rights Plan.

Paco Cano — 2026-01-09

This article analyzes Spain’s 2025 Cultural Rights Plan as a shift from an economic approach to one that recognizes culture as a human right and a common good. It reviews the genealogy of cultural rights, outlines its main axes, and identifies key challenges for implementation.

Pulsar Latin America: 3rd Latin American Congress on Cultural Management .

Consejo Editorial Periférica Internacional — 2026-01-09

The article describes the Third Latin American Congress on Cultural Management (3CLGC), held in Guadalajara, Mexico, from 20 to 24 October 2025, at the Salvador Allende Auditorium. This meeting, organised by the University of Guadalajara together with the Latin American Network for Cultural Management, brought together a wide range of organisations, professionals and cultural institutions from across the continent, establishing itself as a representative forum for the sector.

Offf Sevilla: Otra cartografía para la cultura digital

Virginia Moriche Tirado — 2026-01-09

OFFF Seville is a festival based in Andalusia that proposes new cultural and creative coordinates, connecting the south with major international epicentres without seeking to imitate them, but rather asserting its own identity based on craftsmanship, cultural diversity and innovation from the periphery. OFFF Seville has become an international meeting point where creators from various disciplines share processes and explore the future of digital culture. This edition brings together renowned figures such as David Carson, Mitch Monson and Erin Sarofsky, alongside Spanish studios, especially from Andalusia, which demonstrate the creative vitality of the south.
Overall, OFFF Seville suggests that the geography of design is in constant flux and that creativity can emerge from anywhere. From Andalusia, artists are daring to occupy their own space on the global map of cultural innovation.

The Indaliana Foundation for Music and The Arts / Clasijazz

Pablo Mazuecos Nievas — 2026-01-09

The Indaliana Foundation for Music and the Arts, publicly known as Clasijazz, is a nonprofit cultural organisation founded in 1998 in Almería. Its mission is to promote music, the arts and artistic training at local, national and international levels. It operates thanks to a large community of members, volunteers and collaborators. Clasijazz, the foundation’s headquarters, is a multidisciplinary cultural centre: jazz club, music and dance school, gallery, gastronomic space, cinema, creative laboratory and meeting place. Its programme covers jazz, classical music, opera, rock, dance, theatre, literature and science. It is a constantly evolving project and recognised as a creative and innovative benchmark.

La importancia de los cimientos

Mikel Etxebarria Etxeita — 2026-01-09

Un proyecto editorial con miras altruistas (Línea Editorial La Cultivada-Fundación Gabeiras)

Daniel Heredia — 2026-01-09

Reseña de las actas del Congreso Internacional La Propiedad Intelectual y las Industrias Culturales ante la Inteligencia Artificial Generativa

Ainara LeGardon — 2026-01-09

The cultural status of video games and the question of the author.

Víctor Navarro-Remesal — 2026-01-09

Video games are already a medium with a historical development long enough to have unfolded debates and complex reflections on its cultural status. This text analyses the main coordinates of that status, attending to ontological and specially social complexities, and focuses on a central discursive element: the question of the author. Video game authorship arises from general accepted ideas about the creative process, the medium’s own production specificities, and legitimation strategies. Three recent examples of strategies for constructing the author as a cultural marker are offered here: the figure of Hideo Kojima, the Playdate Podcast, and the short documentary Tribute.

Centres for cultural creation and social innovation? Local cultural policies and hybrid institutions in Barcelona, Ma- drid and València

Juan Arturo Rubio Arostegui — 2026-01-09

Abstract: Over the past two decades, a new type of public institution has emerged, positioned between a cultural center and a space for social innovation. Often located in former industrial buildings repurposed for public use, these initiatives have shifted from a cultural focus to an innovation-oriented approach, bringing in new actors and objectives. Three examples—Medialab (Madrid), Las Naves (València), and Canódrom (Barcelona)—show how local governments have transformed these spaces into hybrid hubs that combine social innovation with economic development. They now serve as key drivers of innovative, cross-cutting, participatory, and sustainable cultural policies. However, this evolution has also sparked debates and tensions regarding their goals.

Influences of the Counterculture in Sixties (University) AndalusiaA local cultural information system for Spanish municipalities: BÁCULO 2.0

Olga Blasco-Blasco — 2026-01-09

BÁCULO 2.0 is a web application built with RStudio Shiny that compiles and cross-references public data on Spanish municipalities to provide information about their cultural policies. The tool integrates various composite indicators aligned with FEMP guidelines, facilitating the monitoring and evaluation of these policies. It is aimed at municipal officials, cultural professionals, researchers, and anyone interested.

Artificial intelligence and museum collections

María Ávila Rodríguez — 2026-01-09

The main objective of the research is to delve into the uses made of technology with artificial intelligence in museums for the knowledge of their collections, their didactic and their diffusion. The methodology has consisted of consulting highly indexed scientific literature, published in recent years, that addresses the topic raised. The results obtained have discovered that technologies with artificial intelligence have had significant development in the fields studied, especially since the pandemic. However, there are still many possibilities to explore, others to refine and improve, as well as not forgetting that the use of technologies with artificial intelligence must respond to the need to facilitate universal knowledge of users to museums.

Cultural Heritage Protection in Argentina. A reflection on the processes of institutionalization and the executed budget

Viviana Leonardi — 2026-01-09

The objective of this work is to analyze the process of protection and safeguarding of cultural heritage in Argentina, placing emphasis on its institutionalization and on some protection tools such as the regulatory framework, its registration and the allocation of resources during the period 2015-2023. The analysis is based on secondary and documented sources. We pose that the progress in cultural heritage safeguarding was achieved at the expense of certain “law inflation”, due to the multiplicity of rules, regulations and protocols and the lack of a proportional advance in budget allocation or seeking of specific resources for this purpose.

Professional Music Education in Spain Facing the Challenges of the Present

Ana Gómez de Castro — 2026-01-09

The main objective of this work is to promote the adaptation of professional higher education in music to a music industry that is undergoing rapid transformation. The music sector has established itself as an intergenerational cultural element of enormous relevance, and its presence, especially in the field of live music, drives the need for an in-depth analysis that places training at the centre of professional development. This study examines higher music education in our country and highlights the importance of reviewing it from a renewed perspective, open to innovation and capable of integrating different professional viewpoints. The new generations need solid and accessible role models, and for this to be possible, it is essential that schools and universities give a voice to the professionals who build the industry in all its dimensions, with a vision oriented towards the future and the real needs of the sector. The study was developed using a qualitative approach based on exploratory research. The conclusions call for an update of professional studies from a contemporary perspective, fully aligned with the current evolution of the music industry and its training demands.

Perseverancia frente a la incertidumbre

Periférica Internacional — 2026-01-09

Entre algoritmos y primates: el ser humano cuestiona su singularidad

Víctor Gómez Pin — 2026-01-09

The belief in the vertical uniqueness of the human species in relation to other animate species, rather than

being the result of a philosophical positioning, has, at least until the present day, been one that was both shared and imme-
diate. We, as humans, would be distinguished by our capacity to reason (lagos) as an expression of our ability to say (legein),

and then decide, choosing between various alternatives; we would, in short, be distinguished by our unique intelligence, as
a maker of cognitive, ethical and aesthetic judgements (which Kant put down to different forms of activation of the human
spirit). This hierarchy was a fortiori extended to plants, as living beings that were nevertheless considered devoid of anima, and even more so to non-living things. This being the case, it is interesting that, following countless discussions comparing it to animal intelligence, our uniqueness seems to be in question with regard to inert matter, matter that is itself unable to act
but of which machines are made.

Arte solidario

Fritz — 2026-01-09

El conejo de la chistera llevaba un as en la manga

Miguel Brieva — 2026-01-09

Cuerpos bellos

Marika Vila — 2026-01-09

Cristian Añó, Poliédrica, y Luis Ben, Periférica, dialogan con Gemma Carbó: dos miradas a las políticas, la gestión y la mediación cultural

Gemma Carbó — 2026-01-09

Periférica Internacional. Revista para el análisis de la cultura y el territorio

Universidad de Cádiz — 2026-01-09