Organizations in the creative and cultural sector are experiencing transformational change. This book offers a new way of exploring the transformational processes that creative and cultural organizations are going through, by focussing on their organizational space.

Preface Antonio Strati 1. Cultural and creative organizations’ space: An introduction Federica De Molli and Marilena Vecco Part I - Aesthetic 2. Atmosphere in cultural organisations: A circumplex model of affective atmospheres Christian Julmi 3. Atmospheres as dynamic configurations: The case of a museum and a techno club Brigitte Biehl (Biehl-Missal) and Dirk vom Lehn 4. Creative spaces in higher education Tatiana Chemi 5. ‘Being t/here apart-together’: Co-creative work(ing) in bodily-digital ‘inter-places’ Wendelin Küpers and Stephan Sonnenburg Part II – Symbolic 6. Organizational spatial transformation: The case of the un-festival Grant Hall and Ruth Rentschler 7. The spatial production of festivals: Ritualization, liminality and performativity Leonore van den Ende 8. Artistic space: Painting and the making of space Eleonora Montagner and Alvise Favotto 9. Museum spaces and changes Graham Black Part III - Instrumental 10. Space technologies and cultural organizations Daniel Ericsson 11. The regional context in entrepreneurial finance of cultural business: Urban versus rural space for creative and cultural entrepreneurship Elmar D. Konrad and Max Höllen 12. Community-driven cultural spaces and the COVID-19 pandemic Matina Magkou, Laura Huret and Vincent Lambert 13. The expansion of virtual spaces of superstar and star museums during the COVID-19 lockdown Anne Gombault and Oihab Allal-Cherif 14. Future perspectives for research on creative and cultural sectors using a spatial approach Federica De Molli