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🎙 Listen now to our 2nd episode of the GLAMMONS Podcast! 🎙

In our podcast, we explore how galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) can transform into genuine spaces of the commons. Now you can listen to inspiring stories from our case studies.

🎧 In our second episode, Mina Dragouni and Katerina Konstantinou explore the layered history and evolving heritage of Spinalonga, a small islet off Crete once used as a l***r colony. Through archival insights, fieldwork, and public memory, they unpack how the island’s difficult past became a national monument and tourist hotspot. The conversation addresses the tensions between tourism, preservation, and local agency, asking: Can heritage become a shared resource? And what does “commoning” a site like Spinalonga really mean?

၊၊||၊ Listen now:
Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/episode/5juk9VRwg4BGkQYHQSYwTA?si=0ba0de1f8da444ad
Soundcloud – https://on.soundcloud.com/BTrGngrUYClnZFvXAM
Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/spinalonga-memory-heritage-and-the-struggle-over/id1825099788?i=1000716161413&l=en-GB



Nova Iskra, Πάντειον Πανεπιστήμιο, Πρύτανις - Panteion University, Rector, Technische Universität Berlin, European Creative Hubs Network, BSB - Burgundy School of Business, Creare NL, Mazomos Landscape & Heritage Consultants

At Nova Iskra in Belgrade, we gathered to explore how cultural institutions can open up, embrace participation, and work with — not just for — their communities. From defining shared values to fostering trust and new forms of governance, it’s all about making culture truly belong to all of us.

Swipe to see moments from the event and discover who joined the conversation. 💬

Want to dive deeper? Find more about this initiative and what we’re building together on our website: https://glammons.eu.

Photo Credits: Minja Pavlović

A week left for sending us your contributions for the final conference of GLAMMONS!

📌 Call for contribution
Deadline for abstracts submission 30 June 2025.

✅ Participate to the Conference: "Commons and commoning in/for cultural production", 4-5 September 2025, in Athens, Greece

The conference marks the end of the GLAMMONS project, which aimed to explore practices (concerning management, financial sustainability and participation) that have emerged around small-scale, community-led GLAMS (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) through the theoretical lens of the commons. The project aimed to inspire commoning practices around GLAMs and beyond, and bring to the fore best practices that can respond to challenges that commons-oriented cultural organisations face.

We welcome contributions that build on empirical and/or theoretical approaches and we are particularly interested in critical contributions about the development of commons in cultural organisations from different academic perspectives, such as cultural studies, cultural economics, urban and cultural geography, sociology, management studies, labour studies, political sciences etc. We also welcome contributions from practitioners that would like to showcase their commons-oriented cultural organisations and discuss their challenges and practices.

More info:https://glammons.eu/2025/02/25/call-for-contributions-conference-athens-september-2025-25-02-2025/

Πάντειον Πανεπιστήμιο, Πρύτανις - Panteion University, Rector; Technische Universität Berlin; Mazomos Landscape & Heritage Consultants; European Creative Hubs Network; Nova Iskra; BSB - Burgundy School of Business; Creare NL