Hanka Otte
Dr. Hanka Otte is senior researcher and university teacher in the field of art sociology and cultural policy. She participated in CCQO from 2016-2022. Currently, she teaches at Groningen University (NL) at the study Arts, culture and media and works as a freelance researcher. In her research, she mainly focuses on the civil value of art and how policy can help generate culture commons. In CCQO she performed several case studies on cultural commoning practices initiated or supported by municipal policy: Montaña Verde in Antwerp, Tower of Babel in Antwerp and De Grond der Dingen in Mechelen. In 2018 Hanka was awarded the NWO Boekman Dissertation Prize for her thesis Binding or Bridging? On the Relation between Art, Cultural Policy and Social Cohesion. In 2022 she worked together with Aart van der Maas (CCQO and Hogeschool Utrecht) and the province of Utrecht to explore the possibilities of setting up a common based cultural policy.