Nonprofit association under the French Law of 1901 · Since 2017
Exposing audiences to cultural content helps shift perspectives as much as it sparks debate on social issues. For this, we organize events, both physical and digital, and support the cultural ecosystem to exist in the digital world.
Culture For Causes Network is a French nonprofit association, founded in 2017. We use cultural programming as a means of raising awareness and mobilization, on behalf of national, European, and international organizations.
Concretely, it takes four forms.
The international museum week, launched in 2014 and organized annually with the support of UNESCO since 2016. Hundreds of institutions in about one hundred countries.
Discover →From 2017 to 2019, with UNESCO, the CHANEL Foundation, and The New York Times: 63 events to highlight women's contribution to creation.
Discover →Since November 2022: reconciling humanity with the living through culture. The traveling exhibition “Reconciliation with the Living” — four cities, 23 artists, 34 works —, two MuseumWeek events on the theme of the environment, and digital art at UNESCO.
Discover →Interviews, analyses, and field reports on the museum world, since 2015.
Discover →We consider culture a global public good — the term adopted by the States gathered at MONDIACULT — and one of the few forces capable of sustainably shifting a society’s perspective. The rest follows from there: what we defend, and what we demand from technology.
Gathered at MONDIACULT under the aegis of UNESCO, States recognized culture as a global public good and called for it to become a standalone goal on the international agenda. We work from there: exposing audiences to cultural content is not an extra, it is a lever for transformation on major societal issues.
Museums, libraries, archives, galleries: they are the ones who make culture accessible, and many are fragile — limited resources, reduced teams, uneven digital skills. We are deeply committed to their existence, and the core of what we build aims to empower them to endure and be heard.
We are progressive about tools: digital technology broadens audiences, documents and protects heritage, and gives a voice to institutions that had none. However, we reject technology for its own sake — the kind that captures attention instead of directing it toward the works. That is why our initiatives always combine both fields: an exhibition is visited and explored online, an event is experienced in the rooms and on social networks.
We refer to the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, the first global normative framework adopted on the subject: proportionality, transparency, human oversight, non-discrimination. Our tools operate on data specific to each institution and do not profile anyone. What we measure is aggregated and anonymous; privacy is not a configuration option.
Since 2014, institutions, patrons, media, and venues have made our work possible. UNESCO has supported us since 2016; the Ministry of Culture was there from the early years; the CHANEL Foundation and The New York Times led Women In Culture from 2017 to 2019.
Our initiatives embody these values on the ground, from MuseumWeek to traveling exhibitions.
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