The author adopts in this text a new angle in the field of research on artists’ residences. Going away from the point of view of the artists, she takes place on the side of the centers of art which welcome them to put better on the fallout from these programs on all the stake holders (cultural centers, artists, publics). She wonders in which measure artists’ residences, envisaged as intermediate spaces, have an impact on the territory which they occupy and the relation developed with the community of public of this territory. She concludes that the nature and the scale of these impacts are not mechanical, but vary according to contexts and relational dynamics set up.