The ‘cultural system’ (Holden, 2006, Retrieved from www.demos.co.uk/publications) is underpinned by instrumental and institutional values, and this results in a ‘closed conversation’ which does not sufficiently include the public—the participants in local cultural life and the independent creative practitioners who often create such local culture. This article provides a critique of this situation and suggests that by developing more dialogical value—genuinely open conversations between cultural organizations and various local communities, as a cultural outcome in and of itself—the cultural organizations can become more responsive and innovative, greatly enhance their local cultural role, add a dynamic social infrastructural role to their remit and contribute to overcoming the democratic deficit within the cultural system as a whole.

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文化组织的对话价值

“文化体系”（Holden，2006，摘自www.demos.co.uk/publications）以工具和制度价值为基础，这导致了一场“封闭式对话”，而该对话并未充分包括公众在内。本地文化生活和经常创造这种本地文化的独立创意从业者。本文对这种情况提出了批评，并建议通过发展更多的对话价值-文化组织与各个地方社区之间真正的公开对话，作为自身的文化成果，文化组织可以变得更具响应性和创新性，从而大大增强了他们的能力。地方文化角色，为他们的职权增加动态的社会基础设施作用，并有助于克服整个文化体系内的民主缺陷。