inDICEs activities and work aim to contribute to the development of a more innovative and competitive CH sector and to support CHIs in recognising and assessing the value of their actions, especially in the context of digital transformations, thus adding an additional voice to the ongoing European debate on the role of culture and CH in the dynamically evolving, blended reality.
inDICEs perspective pushes for a comprehensive recognition of the social impact of the CH sector on the society. By providing CHIs with tools to assess their digital transformation, monitor performance, and engage in participatory value creation, the project helps institutions improve their capacity to reach wider audiences and increase their visibility, practices, and relevance in a digital age.
In this light, the recommendations - the broad ones, as well as those focusing on legal issues - support the project’s objective to assist CHIs in embracing their public mission in the digital realm. On the other hand, the guidelines for CHIs digital transformation and the self-assessment methodology support CH professionals in their path towards converting digital ambitions into digital strategies and gather data to continuously monitor their performance.
Finally, the research work carried out in the project to define the digital context and the dynamics that underlie the creative and cultural production and participation and to identify the behavioural trends of users, led to the development of the Change Impact Assessment Framework, a tool that provides literature collection, best cases and a detailed theoretical framework made by an eight impact areas matrix for orienting the cultural and creative sector and institutions toward the evaluation of impacts of active cultural participatory activities. The framework, based on the 3.0 Culture perspective – where the participation is effective whether there is a collective proactivity and regards democratic processes of co-creation - was developed from a clear premise: even if literature proves that active cultural participation is the best strategy to create positive impacts in the context of digital cultural co-creation, it is still rarely observed in the European cultural heritage sector. This is where InDICEs aims to generate impact, from motivating the CH sector to consider the importance of understanding that active cultural participation can positively impact communities on various levels and layers, from developing psycho-social abilities to raising awareness and calling to action on global challenges.
