cultureshed

== English == === Etymology === From culture +‎ shed, on the model of watershed. === Noun === cultureshed (plural culturesheds) A region felt to have close cultural affinities and relations. 2000, Marilyn Sifford, "Issue-Oriented Future Search: Creating a Frame," Future Searching No. 19, Summer/Fall 2000. The planning committee spent a great deal of time exploring the idea of a regional “cultureshed.” Cultural heritage does not usually begin and end at city, county, or state borders. As a watershed is based on the natural flow of rivers and streams, the concept of a “cultureshed” encourages us to rise above institutional and geographic boundaries to take an eagle’s eye view of the region and its history. 2005, Amy Godine, "Wandering Home, Author: Bill McKibben" (review), Adirondack Explorer March 2005 McKibben makes the great lake a hinge that binds the long lands on either side of it into a “cultureshed” bounded not by the cartography of politics but by his own deep knowledge of it. He’s not implying there’s some commonality of civic style or taste; .... What frames his vision of this stitched-together territory — “Adimont? The Verondacks?” — is the spirit of innovation and respect some people are bringing to its use. 2013, John Lorinc, "The City as Cultureshed," in A. Wilcox, C. Palassio, J. Dovercourt, The State of the Arts: Living With Culture in Toronto, Coach House Books, 2013. That's why we should begin to think of cities as "culturesheds" - deeply interconnected social, physical and economic systems that may be more or less attuned to the circulation of artistic ideas.