Co-producing artistic approaches to social cohesion

Goldstraw, Katy; McMillan, Andrew; Mort, Helen; Pahl, Kate; Pool, Steve; Rafiq, Zahir; Rasool, Zanib

doi:10.14324/rfa.04.2.09

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“…The arts offered a way for the artistresearchers, in each workshop, to connect with each other and explore these difficult topics, both individually and as a collective group (Chilton & Leavy, 2014). The Lawnmowers already had an "arts-based" connection through their theatre work and were already a cohesive group (Goldstraw, et al, 2020), and the arts therapists had a different type of connection through their academic work. These arts-focussed skills were developed further during the workshops, and it seemed that a deeper understanding of the topics was facilitated through the arts-based methods than may have been possible through verbal communication alone (such as semi-structured interviews).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Un-Labelling the Language

Power

Millard

Company³

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People with learning disabilities are often excluded from society. This is changing; however, discrimination persists. Language is one way in which people can be excluded. In healthcare and research, the use of labels and jargon can be a barrier to inclusion. A group of artist-researchers from the UK, some with learning disabilities and some without, wanted to explore power and language in the lives of people with learning disabilities. The group included social change activists The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company - who identify as having learning disabilities, and arts therapist researchers working in the National Health Service (NHS). Using arts-based participatory action research methods, we held two co-produced workshops. The first, explore power, jargon and labels for people with learning disabilities and the second, with the arts therapists only, deepened our understanding of exclusion. We used a range of arts-based approaches including improvised performance and music, reflective art making and poetry writing. This article describes the process of working together and how the arts helped us to connect and explore challenging issues. We discuss the different ways labels impact who we are and the power they have to include or exclude people with learning disabilities from healthcare and research. Our participatory approach supported multifaceted knowledge to emerge, which both empowered participants and laid foundations for an ongoing social change partnership. We share our recommendations to make research and healthcare more accessible for people with learning disabilities.

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“…SC represents an enduring priority of cultural policies, especially given the crucial role that culture plays in promoting it through civic participation in cultural heritage, creativity and the arts. Research has provided ample evidence of the effects of cultural participation on SC, in terms of prosocial behaviour, personal development and intercultural dialogue in socially critical territories, as is best illustrated by the case of collective musical education [13]. Further evidence on the role of cultural approaches for SC is provided through the analysis of participation to projects involving co-creation and arts-based methodologies [13].…”

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“…Research has provided ample evidence of the effects of cultural participation on SC, in terms of prosocial behaviour, personal development and intercultural dialogue in socially critical territories, as is best illustrated by the case of collective musical education [13]. Further evidence on the role of cultural approaches for SC is provided through the analysis of participation to projects involving co-creation and arts-based methodologies [13].…”

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confidence: 99%

Social Cohesion in Interactive Digital Heritage Experiences

Pescarin,

Bonanno,

Marasco

2023

MTI

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Presently, social cohesion (SC) is a priority at different levels. Cultural heritage is an ideal context to promote SC through interactive digital technologies designed to engage groups of visitors. The purpose of the present study is to identify how to design digital heritage applications for SC and how to measure it. The results are based on the design of a cultural probe kit used to identify the design elements on top of which a collaborative and hybrid prototype, the Brancacci POV, was developed. Here, we analysed the results of this prototype, which included 107 visitors with respective groups of 5 participants and guided by an expert. From this analysis, the possibility of strengthening SC when collaborative tasks are included emerged. Additionally, it appeared to be possible to shorten the distance between citizens and cultural institutions if “mediated dialogue” approaches were adopted and if focus, motivation, trust and “in-group” perception of inclusion emerge when digital heritage experiences were set in intimate and quiet environments.

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Kept apart: Routine family separation in the UK family immigration system as times of crises

Charsley

Wray

2023

Migration Studies

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The UK’s family immigration regime involves the routine separation of partners from their families. Most obviously, it keeps apart those who are unable to meet the income and other requirements for family (re)unification, and those refused visas. But separation for at least several months, and sometimes much longer, is the norm even for those whose applications are eventually successful. This article draws on creative, co-produced accounts of immigration-related separation to reveal multi-faceted temporalities of crisis in the ‘experiential migrantisation’ of British citizens seeking to reunite bi-national families in the UK. The bureaucratic temporalities of immigration control impede aspirations for life-course progression and shared futures, while increasing the tempo of working and caring lives. In exploring the accounts of British citizens kept apart from partners by the immigration regime through a temporal lens, we chart this experiential migrantisation through the varied and intersecting temporalities of bureaucracy and immigration control, and of biography and (transnational) family life. These can become intertwined with and compound other temporalities of crisis at different levels, from the global Covid-19 pandemic and other international geo-political events, to the more intimate and familial, leading to ‘times of crises’. Such crises are, moreover, often expressed through temporal tropes of key dates missed—birthdays, anniversaries, holidays—and phases of family life postponed.

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Co-producing artistic approaches to social cohesion

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Un-Labelling the Language

Social Cohesion in Interactive Digital Heritage Experiences

Kept apart: Routine family separation in the UK family immigration system as times of crises

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