Cultural Communication
The culture and the media have a relationship is not always easy. This course is studied from a theoretical and practical point of contact between the two social realities. The sessions are taught by communicators specializing in cultural issues from both media and cultural institutions. At the same time, and are provided are exercised, through case studies, instruments and communication skills necessary for the successful dissemination of goods and cultural events.
Course directors and coordinators
Director
Christoph Pasour
crpasour@uic.es
Mr Pasour is a TV Producer. He holds a degree in Art History and Media Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) and also Edinburgh University (UK). He has authored articles for newspapers and magazines on media art and cinematography. He was the project manager and curator at the Museum for Cinematography in Potsdam, Germany; commissioning Editor in the film department of the 3sat cultural television channel (Germany/Austria/Switzerland). He has also been involved in script development (fiction/non-fiction) for production companies in Berlin and Hamburg. He has been a producer/author on documentaries since 2005 for production companies in Berlin, Hamburg and Barcelona for broadcasters such as ARTE, 3sat, ARD, ZDF, RAI, YLE, TV3. He currently is the director of the University Master's Degree in Cultural Management at UIC Barcelona.
Coordination
Claudia Balboa Salas
Degree in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage from the University of the Basque Country (2014) and University Master's Degree in Cultural Management from the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (2015). She has worked as a cultural manager at the Cervantes Institute in Beijing and collaborated with various companies and institutions in the design of cultural projects and exhibitions. She also participated in the conceptualisation of the infrastructure development plan for Langyuan Station in Beijing, to transform this industrial area of Pekin into a space for Culture and Creative Industries in the country. After her experience in China she returned in October 2018 to Spain, as director of the Rioja Wine Cultural Centre, a historic building linked to wine tourism. As interim civil servant of the City Council she developed the Master Plan and cultural, social and training programme for the reopening of the facility. In 2020 Claudia established herself as independent cultural consultant and she collaborated with the Langyuan New Times Culture in the definition of the cultural development plan and a new urban space for the Music and Performing Arts in Wuzhen. She also provides services to mono office architecture studio production of artistic projects, such as “I Want to be the Future: The Anatomy of Technological Seduction,” developed together with the Chinese artist Cao Fei, for the Whitechapel Gallery in London and the Alserkal Avenue in Dubai. She currently coordinates the Postgraduate Studies in Cultural Management at UIC Barcelona.
Teachers
Inés Martínez Ribas
Writer, reporter and sociologist. She studied at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), the University of East London (UEL) and the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). She graduated in Political Sciences and Sociology (UAB and UEL) and Sciences of Information (UAB) and she studied a Master in Journalism El País (UAM). She has worked as editor in newspapers such as El País, La Vanguardia and El Periódico; she was the press and protocol manager in institutions like ‘La Caixa’ Foundation and The Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona (MACBA), and she has written many articles. She works as a communications consultant. ‘Caribdis. En mar de nadie’’ (Ed. Distrito 93, 2020), her first novel, was finalist in the III August Dupin Contest Black Novel 2020.
Prerequisites & admissions
Request for information and admission
If you are interested in taking this Specialization course at UIC Barcelona, contact the Secretary of the Faculty of Humanities at the following email: secretariahumanitats@uic.es