Access to what? Alzheimer's disease and esthetic sense-making in the contemporary art museum

Mangione, Gemma

doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2012.11.004

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“…Este aspecto no ha aparecido con tanta intensidad en la presente investigación, seguramente por venir los usuarios acompañados mayormente por cuidadores. Mangione (2013), en su estudio en el Metropolitan Museum de Nueva York, destacó igualmente como se disminuye la importancia de la estética, validando el significado que le quieran dar los visitantes a las obras. Destacó también los desafíos que enfrentan los educadores en estos programas.…”

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La cultura como instrumento de bienestar e inclusión social: evaluación del impacto del programa Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona – Alzheimer

Algado

Pedrosa²,

Pérez

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Arte Individ. Soc.

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Resumen. Este artículo presenta la investigación desarrollada en el Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (CCCB) para conocer el impacto de su programa de Alzheimer. Se describe la metodología mixta de la investigación desarrollada, si bien se ha privilegiado la dimensión cualitativa desde un paradigma hermenéutico. A nivel cuantitativo se ha utilizado la escala Non Pharmacological Therapy. A nivel cualitativo se han desarrollado grupos focales, un cuestionario y diarios de campo basados en la observación participativa durante las visitas. En la investigación han participado las personas con Alzheimer, sus acompañantes y familiares así como las educadoras del CCCB. La investigación muestra que el programa ha tenido un impacto positivo en el bienestar cognitivo y emocional de los participantes, así como en la dimensión de participación social. Destacan dimensiones como la evocación de recuerdos, el disfrute de la novedad, o la participación que rompe con una situación de aislamiento y exclusión. Se verifica un impacto igualmente positivo del programa en los cuidadores, familiares, educadores y en la propia institución, en el marco de un movimiento de las instituciones de cultura y los museos hacia la inclusión. La cultura es un poderoso instrumento para el bienestar y la participación social de las personas con Alzheimer. Palabras clave: Investigación mixta; Alzheimer; cultura; bienestar; inclusión.[en] Culture as an instrument of well-being and social inclusion: evaluation of the impact of the program Center for the Contemporary Culture of Barcelona -AlzheimerAbstract. This paper presents a research developed at the Centre for the Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) to understand the impact of it's Alzheimer program. Mixed research methodology has been developed, although a qualitative research from an hermeneutic paradigm has been privileged. The quantitative research has been based on the Non Pharmacological Therapy Scale. The qualitative research has been developed through focus groups; a questionnaire; and field diaries based on participatory observation during the visits. The research shows that the program has had a positive impact on the cognitive and emotional wellbeing of participants as well as in the social participation. It is remarkable the positive impact in dimensions as evocation of memories, enjoying the novelty, or

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La cultura como instrumento de bienestar e inclusión social: evaluación del impacto del programa Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona – Alzheimer

Algado

Pedrosa²,

Pérez

et al. 2017

Arte Individ. Soc.

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“…Such programmes serve, but are not limited to, people who are blind or have visual impairments, as well as people with varying language abilities, for whom the practice of facilitating observationbased dialogue is often most in need of adaptation. Concentrating on staff who lead programmes focuses empirical attention on those professionals tasked with engaging the institution's diverse publics and making accessible its collections (Mangione 2013;Zolberg 1992).…”

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Making Sense of Things: Constructing Aesthetic Experience in Museum Gardens and Galleries

Mangione¹

2017

Mus. Soc.

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Studies of museum behaviour in sociology often examine how external environments shape organizational practice. Through an ethnographic study, this article considers programmes for visitors with disabilities at a major metropolitan art museum and botanical garden to ask how 'sensory conventions' vary across museums, and with what effects. I trace how museum staff construct the aesthetic experience of art and nature differently to shape how visitors use their senses, and which senses they use, when interacting with museum collections. Examining aesthetic meanings across different kinds of museums reveals these institutions' differing local cultures and how such cultures affect visitor experience. In particular, aesthetic practices across museums facilitate varying opportunities for perception, and interactions that may privilege particular embodied capacities. *Gemma Mangione is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Northwestern University with research interests in culture, health, knowledge, and organizations. Her dissertation examines how art museums and botanical gardens organize and innovate programmes for visitors with disabilities. Her research on museums has appeared in Poetics and Qualitative Sociology.Address:

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“…Several authors (Acord ; Born ; De la Fuente , ; DeNora , ; Mangione ; Tanner ), have noted that there has been a move in sociology from the study of art worlds to an interest for microsociological investigations of people's encounters with art objects, where the goal is “to identify the mechanism and range of social meanings through which people make sense of it (art)” (Mangione :30). Encouragement for this extension of the sociological scope came especially from scholars interested in exploring how aesthetic objects “play an important role as arbiters of social relations, meaning and action through how they are used by individuals and groups to order daily existence” (Acord and DeNora :235).…”

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“…Attempts in this direction have emerged largely from microsociological studies in the production and consumption of art, carried out by scholars working in the tradition of symbolic interactionism and ethnomethodology (DeNora , ; Hennion ). The first cohort has particularly focussed on the interactional processes through which interpretations of artifacts as art objects are collaboratively constructed on the exhibition sites (Bruder and Ucok ; Heath and Vom Lehn ; Mangione ; Vom Lehn, Heath, and Hindmarsh ) and on how artistic meanings are incorporated in the organization and the practical installation of art events by the curator (Acord ).…”

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Talking about Beauty: A Study of Everyday Aesthetics among Low‐Income Citizens of Milan

Ruggerone

Jenkings

2015

Symbolic Interaction

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This paper reports on research undertaken into the aesthetics of the everyday. As well as the subject matter of aesthetic philosophy, art criticism and of the sociology of art, beauty and beautiful are of course very ordinary matters too. To shed light on the meanings of beauty as used in everyday settings and in natural language, we use the data collected in a study conducted with a group of low-income residents of the city of Milan. In this study we were interested in analysing their lifestyle in terms of their relationship with aesthetics, i.e. with 'beautiful' objects and/or experiences. Participants' self-reported aesthetic appreciations suggest that conceptions of 'beauty' are used as devices to narrate pieces of identity, memories, experiences, etc. Their aesthetic judgements take on an anthropological function, creating a framework of meanings that help the participants make sense of the world of objects and of their own lives with/through them.Keywords: beauty, poverty, aesthetics, art, objects, life-world, phenomenology.We contend that there is a broad distance separating ordinary perceptions of beauty and disciplinary discourses around the 'truly beautiful'. By disciplinary discourses we mean conceptualizations of beauty principally found in aesthetic philosophy and in art history, where scholars seek to establish a definition of beauty (and therefore supply a measuring gauge to discern beautiful from non-beautiful things) and then provide examples of these definitions mainly in works of art. Assumptions about beauty are also incorporated in sociological investigations of a range of cultural areas, such as art, fashion, design and the human body; these assumptions remain mostly implicit, while sociologists concentrate on explaining how

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Access to what? Alzheimer's disease and esthetic sense-making in the contemporary art museum

Cited by 14 publications

References 29 publications

La cultura como instrumento de bienestar e inclusión social: evaluación del impacto del programa Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona – Alzheimer

La cultura como instrumento de bienestar e inclusión social: evaluación del impacto del programa Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona – Alzheimer

Making Sense of Things: Constructing Aesthetic Experience in Museum Gardens and Galleries

Talking about Beauty: A Study of Everyday Aesthetics among Low‐Income Citizens of Milan

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