Entrepreneurial Cultures in European Cities
Entrepreneurial Cultures in European Cities
In this project museums and cultural organisations in cities from seven European countries want to explore for the first time the possibilities for small and medium-size businesses to contribute to an emerging European citizenship. Firstly the project will focus on economic, social and cultural strategies of entrepreneurs who started a business quite recently, many of whom have an immigrant background. Secondly the project will involve an interaction with the customers, also often from an immigrant background. Intercultural dialogue is therefore an important and natural starting point in the implementation of this project.
A travers ce projet, des musées et des organismes culturels installés dans des villes de sept pays européens veulent, pour la première fois, explorer comment les petites et moyennes entreprises peuvent contribuer à l'émergence d'une citoyenneté européenne. Le projet s'intéresse d'abord aux stratégies économiques, sociales et culturelles des patrons qui ont créé leur entreprise il n'y a pas longtemps; beaucoup d'entre eux sont issus de l'immigration. Il porte ensuite sur l'interaction avec les clients; beaucoup d'entre eux sont également issus de l'immigration; le dialogue interculturel est donc un point de départ important et naturel dans la réalisation de ce projet.
Read moreDownload all information (exhibition context, entrepreneur’s biographies, photos) about the local project from the ECEC partners in Berlin - the exhibition “Doner, Delivery and Design” of the Museum of European Cultures (MEK) and the Neighbourhood Museum:
(pdf) Exhibition Berlin
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The Museum of Liverpool is presenting objects from their local project “The secret life of Smithdown Road” in our virtual gallery. The exhibition shows from each entrepreneur the best selling item, or item which best represents their business.
The Amsterdam Historical Museum is presenting several objects from their “Buurtwinkels” (neighbourhoodshops) project.
The Museum Europäischer Kulturen is presenting objects from the exhibition “Doner, Delivery and Design” and objects from new entrepreneurs in Berlin
Follow the link to flickR in “media” .
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Our symposium in Berlin started with a lecture by Andreas Germershausen, Vice Representative of the Berlin Senate for Integration and Migration. He spoke about the situation of new entrepreneurs and migrants in Berlin. After a discussion, we visited the exhibition « Doner, Delivery and Design » organised (Lire la suite…)
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Copyrights © Ethnographic Museum Zagreb, Croatia, 2009. Photographs by Oleg Moskaljov
Let’s Have a Coffee
Views of Zagreb Entrepreneurs on the Culture of Coffee Consumption
Coffeehouses have an interesting history, dating back to the late 17th century in many European cities. The first coffeehouse in Zagreb was established in 1749. The coffeehouses of Zagreb were modelled after West European, especially Viennese, coffeehouses, which was reflected primarily in their interior design, but also in the coffee offer. Since (Lire la suite…)
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There are some additional photos in the gallery (media) from the ECEC symposium in Barcelona in June 2009 (”Contemporary Collecting and citizen participation in City History Museums”).
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An international conference called “Migration, Politics and Work” gave us this June the opportunity to present our project. It was organized from Thursday, 25th of June to Saturday, 27th of June 2009 in Trier (D) and Dudelange (L) by the Institute for Regional and Migration Research IRM (Trier, Germany), the Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines CDMH (Dudelange, Luxemburg) and the Institute for Integration and Participation IIP, School of Social Work, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (Olten, Switzerland).
Whereas migrational (Lire la suite…)
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Follow the link below to the interview with an entrepreneur from Tallinn, owner of a popular coffehouse chain in the capital city Tallinn with migration background. This interview is a part of the current project research made by the Tallinn City Museum:
The Estonian capital city is home to approximately 400 000 people of different nationalities. The majority are Estonians, the largest minority Russians. This is due to Estonian history. During the countries independent statehood between (Lire la suite…)
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The ECEC forum on this website has opened.
Have a look and leave your comments, suggestions and questions on the ECEC project’s topic or start building your network.
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Frozen doner kebab, produced by Remzi Kaplan, photo: Metin Yilmaz, 2003
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Take Away Culture: Imagine IC staff offering Ethiopian coffee to passers-by Amsterdamse Poort shopping area, Amsterdam Southeast, 12/06/09. Photo by Tugba Özer, Imagine IC. © Imagine IC
In June 2009, we got together in Barcelona to discuss strategies for collecting the ‘future heritage’ of contemporary entrepreneurial cultures in European cities. The various museums involved are collecting objects and personal histories of new European entrepreneurs. In the exhibition project Supertoko, Imagine IC in Amsterdam, in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES), presented the (Lire la suite…)
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This project has been funded with the support of the European Commission
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