26 Mar Centres for Art and Creative Industries in Spain and in Europe: So what?

After visiting Gijón a few days ago and being at the LABoral, and also recently in Caixa-Forum in Madrid:

An apparently irrelevant (but important) question or a doubt came across:

What is the role of these spaces in Spain? There has been an increasingly trendy way to set up such a cult place in cities.

But what is the role they should play in relation to not only Public Institutions, but also to Private Companies and Civic Society?

So, what?