Lightning, fragments, blindness: Observing intermittency

Times of changing paradigms imply mayor difficulties in describing a general and consistent picture about phenomena and trends to support public policies: it’s the nowadays condition that affect also Cultural Observatories. The long economic crisis, starting from 2008 followed by the Pandemic caused a real earthquake in the cultural sector. Now what emerge is a scenario full of contradictions, under the digital revolution that impact on the cultural production as well as on the consumers’ behavior. As a result, the role of the Cultural Observatories could be to fully represent the dynamics and the contradictions – notwithstanding the great difficulties in making an effective synthesis of the different phenomena – while innovating their analytic tools and providing a space for an open debate among cultural professionals, decision makers, researchers, addressed to design new policies, able to integrate and innovate the list of existing way of programming, sustaining and promoting culture.