Use of Redundant Industrial Buildings as Injections into the Cultural Sector in Norway

ABSTRACT

Prime aim is to examine the way the culture sector reuses industrial buildings to instigate cultural activities in the municipalities. The discussion of various actors’ motivation for engagement is based on results from a case study, supplemented with findings from a coarse-meshed telephone survey. At national level overarching political guidelines can be traced back to white papers concerning cultural policy, urban transformation and cultural heritage, and the municipalities’ cultural policies mirror these guidelines. What tends to decide if such initiatives are considered successful are local abilities to cross sectorial divisions and instigate cooperation between municipal planners, private entrepreneurs and NGOs.

KEYWORDS:

• Reuse industrial buildings
• cultural arenas
• cultural heritage sites
• urban planning strategies
• private–public partnership

Acknowledgement

We are especially thankful for the help we received from informants in the municipalities.