This year’s European Cultural Centres conference focuses on the economic theories of Experience Economy, but the conference will also endeavour to give all the participants the possibility to obtain and create experiences in a variety of ways and venues. Participants are therefore invited to express themselves artistically during the conference with the help of visual and musical forms of expression. The theoretical presentations will be continually supplemented by an art installation, the basic form and expression of which has been developed by the Danish installation and performance artist Peter Holmgård. All speakers and participants will be invited to contribute to the development of the installation, which functions as a kind of backdrop for the conference, and the fi nished work of art will in this way illustrate the principles of ‘participatory art’.