Barcelona City Council commissioned this diagnosis report as part of drawing up a new Culture Pact for the city, aiming to build an overview of the current state of culture through the ecosystem of available data. The report follows an innovative methodology, in line with new strategic lines of research in cultural analytics, combining official data sources with available unstructured data.
We first mapped the city’s cultural facilities to understand how they are spatially organised, how they are distributed across Barcelona, and the number of users and visitors they draw over time. We then looked at how cultural grants are distributed, to understand the economic structure supporting these facilities. Beyond this, we used search trend data to ask whether cultural activity in Barcelona is losing relevance, gauging the city’s resonance through what people actually look for online, and closed with a study of the different communities that form around culture, drawn from social media data on how audiences relate to one another around cultural venues.
Most of the data came from the Culture Institute of Barcelona (ICUB), largely open-source data collected by the Cultural Data Observatory to trace the volume of cultural activity and audience reach. We supplemented this with information from other sources, including news coverage, search trends and social media, to contrast and validate what the main official data sources show.
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