This book presents twenty-seven successful arts-based efforts to respond to social problems experienced by disadvantaged communities.
The arts are a powerful means of fighting discrimination, marginalisation, neglect, even poverty. The educational programs described in these chapters help stakeholders find solutions are research-based, adaptable, repeatable and sustainable. Social problems that are addressed in the book include children living with physical challenges, suffering from financial and educational poverty; elderly women suffering from solitude; migrants facing a strange and not always welcoming cultural context; Roma youth fighting negative stereotypes, and many more. Revealing the interconnectedness between social, economic, and cultural exclusion, contributors planned interventions to develop skills, strengthen identities and build communities.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in the visual arts, art education, design education, drama and theatre education, and museum pedagogy.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [ Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
This book presents twenty-seven successful arts-based efforts to respond to social problems experienced by disadvantaged communities.
Introduction Andrea Kįrpįti and Raphael Vella
1. Visual arts for social
inclusion
1. Paul Wilson, Tang Tang and Ki Woong Nam: Dialogical
correspondence of Socially Engaged Participatory Arts Research Project
2.
Tang Tang, Paul Wilson and Kiwoong Nam: Dialogue as social sculpture: a
visual method of graphic-ethnography for storytelling. Exploring
Participation and Collaboration in Research and Socially Engaged Arts
3.
Teresa Eca and Āngela Saldanha: Building relationships through arts: Two Case
Studies in Portugal
4. Erika Kugler and Andrea Kįrpįti: Mathematics Through
Art: developing spatial skills and digital literacy of children with learning
challenges through visual arts education
5. Amna Qureshi: Engaging Youth
through Visuals
6. Magdalena Novotnį and Marie Fulkovį: Searching for Beauty:
Art in a Distance
7. Marie Fulkovį and Magdalena Novotnį: Cut for New Times:
Emancipatory Effects of Artistic Open Form
8. Raphael Vella and Milosh
Raykov: Studying the impact of a collaborative art workshop on social
inclusion
2. Drama-based interventions for social inclusion
9. Raphael Vella,
Milosh Raykov, Karsten Xuereb and Toni Attard: Developing and evaluating a
theatre project for youth with intellectual disabilities
10. Isabelle Gatt:
Combatting ageism through participation in a theatre-making process and
performance
3. Environmental and design education projects to promote social
integration and environmental appropriation
11. Maria Huhmarniemi, Satu
Miettinen and Melanie Sarantou: SoftPowerArt: Tackling Environmental and
Societal Conflicts
12. Margerita Pulč, Milosh Raykov, Raphael Vella, Karsten
Xuereb and Kristina Borg: Telling the Truth: Guerilla art and community
engagement in Malta
13. Teresa Eca and Āngela Saldanha: Crossing Bridges and
Being Together
14. Anna Eplényi, Rita Terbe, Gertrśd Schmidt and Dóra
Szentandrįsi: Spatial skills development for socially challenged children
an in-service art teacher training program
15. Mirja Hiltunen:
AMASS-AMAS-WEIRD: Community-based art education project in the Sįmi area,
Finland
4. Media-based social interventions: film, photography and social
media for empowerment and inclusion
16. Carolina Gutiérrez Novoa and Silvia
Remotti: #daimieiocchi: Participatory Photography Workshops for Marginalised
Young People in Italy - Theoretical foundations and methods
17. Carolina
Gutiérrez Novoa and Silvia Remotti: #daimieiocchi Participatory Photography
Workshops for Marginalised Young People in Italy: Collaborative creation and
results
18. Andrea Kįrpįti, Įgnes Veszelszki, Lajos Kovįcs, Mįrton Rétvįri
and Eszter Deli: Cultural empowerment through social media: the Roma Cultural
Influencer Project
5. Social interventions in nonformal settings
19. Melanie
Sarantou and Niina Karvinen: Is Money a Dirty Word? The entrepreneurial
worlds of art and sculpting 20.. Zsófia Somogyi-Rohonczy: Museum: the bridge
between art and society. Museum education program and teacher training at the
Ludwig Museum
21. Marie Fulkovį and Magdalena Novotnį: Glass is a Treasure!
Teaching Art and Culture at a Primary School with Roma Pupils
22. Marie
Fulkovį and Magdalena Novotnį: Cut for New Times: A collaborative project at
the School for the Deaf and the Museum of Decorative Art in Prague
23. Zsófia
Albrecht: SENsational art: an educational program for children with
behavioural issues and special educational needs (SEN) and an in-service
training program for their teachers at the Hungarian National Gallery
Conclusion
Andrea Kįrpįti is a Professor at the Institute of Marketing and Communication Science and the Head of the Visual Culture Research Group at Corvinus University of Budapest.
