1. Introduction: The cultural and creative sector, Cultural professions and Professional organizations
2. Challenges and contemporary dilemmas of Cultural Management
3. Cultural Policies (Europe / Portugal)
4. Economy of Culture and Creativity
5. Management of cultural projects and equipment
6. Cultural Audiences and Cultural Practices
7. Cultural Networks
8. Urban Culture, Festivals and Major Events
9. Cultural Entrepreneurship

1. Cultural property: definition and areas of intervention
2. Curating and Programming: characteristics of production, communication and funding
3. Curatorial and programming proposals
4. Concepts of production, financing and cultural communication
5. Stages in the management process
6. Contracts and protocols
7. Managing artistic teams
8. Managing and training production teams
9. Audience mediation and accessibility plan
10. Reports: elements for analysing the event
11. Dossier and funding, communication and media planning
12. Team organisation chart and detailed job description
13. Timetabling, budgeting and applications

The course is divided into five broad themes that will be addressed in an integrated approach and following the various pedagogical and research methodologies defined for this subject:

1. Theories and practices of urban space
2. Urban culture and globalization
3. Cultural practices in the city: from patrimonialization to social movements
4. Urban subcultures and the reconfiguration of urban space
5. The city as a creative object: case studies.

1. In the games of categories, in the mesh of hierarchies
2. Cultures in (Contemporary Culture)
3. Culture and Nature
4. When culture goes POP
5. Black Culture
6. The digitalization of culture

1. Atlas Mnemosyne de Aby Warburg;
2. Didi-Hubermann: Atlas ou a gaia ciência inquieta;
3. Georges Bataille: revista Documents e dicionário crítico;
4. Nadja de André Breton;– Marcel Broodthaers: Musée d’art moderne, section des aigles;
5. Os Becher: Gaz Tanks;– Evidence: sultan e Mandel;
6. Peter Piller: diários;
7. Jorge Luis Borges e Maria Kodama: Atlas;
8. Jean Luc Godard: Histoires du Cinéma;

1. The order of discourses: genres and forms.
2. Writing practices: describing, conceptualizing, questioning.
3. Theory and critical discourse: study of selected cases.
4. Lexicon and vocabulary of the arts: references and how to use them.
5. The curatorial discourse: modes of investigation and research in the arts.
6. Discursive modalities in the field of contemporary art
7. The potential (auto)biographical and narrative dimension of writing
8. Discursive practices in the construction of theauthor

1. The methodology of scientific work: from the starting question to the inference of conclusions;
2. The importance of critical analysis of sources and forms of referencing;
3. Design, preparation and phasing of the research project;
4. Conversations with experts from the cultural and creative sector to define and expand the field of research;