Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has had both financial and activity-related effects on a number of areas of activity, among which those involving the creative industries have proved to be weak in their capacity to survive the halting of all events held in physical spaces. The long-term effects of the current health crisis are bringing about changes in cultural demand and offer and highlighting the need to adapt and to think of new ways of functioning. Taking its cue from this situation, the research underlying our article set out to investigate the ways in which Romania’s independent creative sector is adapting. We achieved this by means of conducting 25 semi-structured interviews and undertaking case studies of two cities that are among the most effervescent from the point of view of cultural and creative industries, Timișoara and Cluj-Napoca. With the strengthening of this sector as the aim in view, the forms of early social resilience we identified are capable in the short term of taking action to ensure the survival of some of the spaces; in the medium term, through activating mechanisms that encourage entrepreneurial spirit, they will be able to adapt to any external shock.
Highlights
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all areas of socio-economic life on a global scale and in an unprecedented way
In Romania, the cultural institutions that are officially recognized at the national level are public bodies and all come under the Ministry of Culture
The independent cultural spaces that have appeared during the past 20 years have arisen spontaneously, in the country’s large university centers, which themselves possess a large number of companies operating in the creative industries sector
Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all areas of socio-economic life on a global scale and in an unprecedented way. Many governments in all parts of the world have imposed local lockdowns with the aim of encouraging people to socially distance. The very widespread application of measures of this kind has meant that all activities judged to be non-essential have been almost completely stopped [1]. This has led to technical unemployment and to an increase in bankruptcies, among small and mediumsized businesses, and subsequently to an increase in real unemployment, which has nourished fears of a large-scale economic recession or even of an eventual wholesale economic collapse [2].
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