2015年5月16日是臺灣文化公共領域歷史性的時刻。今天，由民間發起的非營利組織「社團法人臺灣文化政策研究學會」宣告正式成立。
匯聚－文化政策、藝術管理、文化資產、表演藝術、視覺藝術、藝術批評、社區營造、文創產業、藝術市場、文化經濟、影視媒體、流行音樂文化與國際文化交流等－跨藝術文化領域的研究、實踐與創作工作者，臺灣文化政策研究學會希冀推動一個自由、開放的知識平台，以及一個促進學術界、非營利文化第三部門、文化企業、產業和公部門之間協力、溝通、對話與理性辯證的臺灣文化公共領域。
May 16th of 2015 is a historical date for cultural public sphere in Taiwan. On that day, 34 artists, cultural practitioners and academics assembled and announced the inauguration of the Taiwan Association of Cultural Policy Studies (TACPS).
TACPS is an autonomous and not-for-profit legal organization. Members of TACPS come across a wide range of disciplines – from cultural policy, arts management, cultural heritage, performing arts, visual arts, art critics, community regeneration, cultural and creative industries, arts market, cultural economy, film and media studies, popular music, to international cultural relations. The mission of TACPS is to create an open and accessible knowledge sharing platform, and to develop a public sphere that would facilitate cultural collaborations, dialogues, engagements and rational debates among different agents, including academia, NPOs, cultural enterprises, creative industries and governmental cultural institutions in Taiwan and abroad.