CAREER: Mapping the Role of Somatosenses in Youth-Based Creative Activity and Community Engagement

职业：绘制体感在青少年创意活动和社区参与中的作用

• 批准号: 1452541
• 负责人: Allison Hayes-Conroy
• 金额: $ 44.97万
• 依托单位: Temple University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-06-01 至 2021-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1452541&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Mapping; Role; Somatosenses; Youth

This project will analyze the role of the physical body in motivating youth to participate in creative social activities that positively influence their lives and the lives of their communities. The project will focus on the somatosensorial system - the complex system that enables feeling in the human body - in order to understand how the body's capacity for feeling matters to the motivation of youth as well as to the outcomes of their social activities. The research and pedagogical programs of this CAREER project integrate international, participatory and student-driven research on youth-based, creative action groups (e.g. dance, theater, and clown troupes, urban gardeners, community musicians) in Philadelphia, PA and Colombia, South America. Both locally and abroad, the project will attend to at-risk or violence-afflicted youth, and will generate valuable linkages between youth-based groups and university students and researchers. Youth participants in the research will be respected as co-collaborators of the project and will be involved in research activities that enhance their intellectual and social capacity for attending to their communities. Through their creative social activities, youth often engage various corporeal capacities of sense, including: auditory senses piqued through music, kinesthesia roused through the movement of limbs, and other widely varied forms of sensorial and intero- or visceroception. The research program seeks to answer the following four questions regarding the role of the sensorial body in youth-based creative social activity: (1) What are the types of somatosensorial perceptions that are roused through diverse creative social activities? (2) How do these seemingly individual perceptions matter to the development of creative social projects that address the needs of others? (3) How does diversity and difference influence the physical experience of participation in creative social activities? And (4) can multi-scalar mapping of these dynamic activities help to explain spatial variation in the ability of youth groups to work affectively and effectively with their communities? The research program will proceed through a series of focus groups, mapping workshops and mapping surveys, coupled with extended participant observation with youth networks in Medellín and Bogotá, Colombia as well as course-based research activities in Philadelphia, PA. The project's in-depth, participant-driven methodology will provide detailed understanding of how youth are motivated to partake in creative social projects in and through their bodies, including how sensations like movement (kinesthesia) and observations of others' body movements and reactions enable non-verbal communication and cooperative interest, how embodied activities shift youth's sensation and perception of their internal material self (interoception), and what limitations exist to motivation and collaboration via the sensorial body.

该项目将分析身体在激励青年参加创造性社会活动方面的作用，这些活动对他们的生活及其社区的生活产生积极影响。该项目将侧重于躯体感觉系统——使人体产生感觉的复杂系统——以了解身体的感觉能力如何影响年轻人的动机以及他们社会活动的结果。这个CAREER项目的研究和教学项目整合了国际、参与性和学生驱动的研究，以青年为基础的、创造性的行动团体（如舞蹈、戏剧和小丑剧团、城市园丁、社区音乐家），宾夕法尼亚州费城和南美洲哥伦比亚。在当地和国外，该项目将照顾面临危险或遭受暴力的青年，并将在青年团体与大学生和研究人员之间建立宝贵的联系。参与研究的青年将被视为该项目的共同合作者，并将参与研究活动，以提高他们参与社区的智力和社会能力。通过创造性的社会活动，青少年经常运用各种各样的身体感觉能力，包括：通过音乐激发的听觉，通过肢体运动激发的动觉，以及其他各种各样的感觉和内脏感觉。本研究计划旨在回答以下四个关于感觉体在以青年为基础的创造性社会活动中的作用的问题：(1)通过各种创造性社会活动所唤起的体感知觉的类型是什么？(2)这些看似个人的看法对解决他人需求的创造性社会项目的发展有何影响？(3)多样性和差异性如何影响参与创造性社会活动的身体体验？(4)这些动态活动的多标量映射是否有助于解释青年群体与社区有效合作能力的空间差异？该研究计划将通过一系列焦点小组、绘图讲习班和绘图调查进行，同时在哥伦比亚Medellín和波哥大<e:1>与青年网络进行广泛的参与性观察，并在宾夕法尼亚州费城开展基于课程的研究活动。该项目深入的、参与者驱动的方法论将提供详细的理解，以了解年轻人是如何通过他们的身体参与创造性的社会项目的，包括运动的感觉（动觉）和对他人身体运动和反应的观察如何促进非语言交流和合作兴趣，具体化的活动如何改变年轻人对内在物质自我的感觉和感知（内感受），以及通过感觉体的动机和合作存在哪些限制。