In 2003, Steven Tepper and Stephanie Hinton published the findings of a two-year study of meetings and convenings in arts and culture. Entitled "Meetings that Matter," the project sought to assess how public meetings in the arts discovered, formulated, and advanced common issues facing the field. In short, the project found that:

Overall, we find that meetings are not currently effective tools for advancing policy in the cultural sector, with some notable exceptions.

The findings and recommendations of this process and report provided essential input to the I-DOC project (with report author Steven Tepper serving on the I-DOC leadership team). Those interested in learning more should visit the report's home page on the web (where the full report is available for download):

The Measure of Meetings: Forums, Deliberation, and Cultural Policy
Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University
Working Paper #28, Fall 2003
Steven J. Tepper & Stephanie Hinton

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