Friday 26 September 2025
How many times have we heard the phrase that gives the title to this conference?
When we talk about social rights, it is not difficult to identify how they are realised in the form of
our daily lives. We know what it means to have the right to work, the right to education, the right to housing, and the right to a job.
health: we don't need to be experts on any of these issues to be able to say whether or not we have a right to health and dignity.
whether we are enjoying these rights or not. However, things change when we talk about
cultural rights. It's not just that we don't know what they are as citizens: it's that we don't know how to say what they are.
that even as artists, as managers, as cultural professionals, we do not have it in our hands.
all clear. We are all in favour of cultural rights, but do we really know what we are doing?
What do they imply?
The purpose of this day is to ask ourselves about these questions, and to understand where we
extent from the cultural fabric and cultural policies we are reproducing practices,
behaviour and attitudes that are contrary to the enjoyment of cultural rights by everyone.
To bring cultural rights down to earth, to situate them and to analyse whether we are encouraging an approach that
Do we invite people to enjoy them through our own cultural activities?
Or are we pushing it away? From these questions, maybe we will discover why a
culture understood as everyone's right is beneficial for our future: as a
society, but also as professionals who want to dedicate ourselves to it.
MORNING SESSION
Aragon School of Design
10:00 h. Welcome and presentation. Why cultural rights?
ESDA, PROCURA and the Unizar Cultural Rights Laboratory
10:45 a.m. Nicolás Barbieri
The right to participate in cultural life - are we talking about inequalities?
12:15 h. Situated experiences. What is the role of cultural professionals?
Conversation between Virginia Martinez (Teatro Comunitario), Cecilia Casas (DESISLAB), Kira
Rivarés (Orquesta Escuela) and Nicolás Barbieri
AFTERNOON SESSION
Faculty of Philosophy and Arts
16:00 h. Nuria Salvador
The Recartographies project: custody of the territory and popular culture in Mas Blanc.
17:00 h. Situated experiences. Practices against inequality in culture
Conversation between Sámar Ahmad (Andar de Nones), David Giménez (Enlatamus) and Nuria
Salvador (Recartographs)
18:45 h. Presentation of papers developed by the students of the Master's Degree in Management of the
Cultural Heritage
