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Pan-African network for the arts in environmentally sustainable development

泛非环境可持续发展艺术网络

基本信息

批准号：
AH/W006642/1
负责人：
Imogen Bellwood-Howard
金额：
$ 16.63万
依托单位：
Institute of Development Studies
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW006642%2F1
关键词：
Pan African network arts environmentally

项目摘要

This project uses the arts as a way to facilitate communication between citizens and policy actors, on issues of environmentally sustainable development. The project will establish a network of people across Africa to trial this, learn about how it works in different places, and even achieve policy impact in relation to live environmental issues that concern them.It draws on two previously funded AHRC projects. In our previous projects, we found that various art forms, including song and music, photography, sculpture and plays, can be used to facilitate dialogue between citizens and policy actors. Often, policy actors communicate directives 'down' to citizens, citizens communicate concerns directly 'up' to policy actors, or citizens agitate through art to create public pressure on policy actors. Rarely, co-creation of understanding between these actors may take place. The project will create a network of people across five countries: Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Ghana and Kenya. We will bring together artists, citizen groups, researchers and policy actors from each country. These network members will organise national level workshops, each one based on a specific theme of concern to environmentally sustainable development. These include: changes to pastoral livelihoods in the contexts of climate change, the role of apiculture, flooding, desertification, and farming in the context of sea level rise. The theme running through these issues is development in the context of climate change. Artists will facilitate an artistic or cultural activity, such as production of a song or photographs, through which citizens and policy actors will share ideas and perspectives on these issues. They will work towards specific policy actions that need to happen. The exact format each workshop will take is decided at national level by the workshop participants before and during the workshop. It will be guided by the work we did in previous projects.We will share our national level artworks on a group digital space, and have an online dialogue session where all international participants learn about each other's experiences. This will help us all understand what worked in different places and how, and the different roles the arts can play in facilitating communication between citizens and policy. We will actively invite other groups to view our works, attend our online exhibition/ performances, and join our network by sharing their own experiences This is a truly novel activity, especially in our study contexts, and it has the potential to engender powerful changes. Academic research has begun to consider the role of the arts and humanities in building and understanding climate change scenarios, and the different meanings people ascribe to different environmental futures. But, these approaches are fairly new in the East and West African contexts, and have not been widely applied to other environmental issues or beyond scenario building. The work therefore has potential to make significant changes. It will also be challenging: our former work found that entrenched hierarchies and sectoral silos can prevent transdisciplinary change. This work will show whether these need to be challenged for the arts to make policy impact. The website hosting our outputs will remain live after the project lifetime. The network will continue to function through it, meaning that this work can go on to develop into other national or international projects, and have enduring impact.

该项目将艺术作为促进公民和政策行为者之间就环境可持续发展问题进行沟通的一种方式。该项目将建立一个由非洲各地的人组成的网络来试验这一点，了解它在不同地方是如何运作的，甚至在与他们相关的生活环境问题上实现政策影响。该项目借鉴了AHRC之前资助的两个项目。在我们以前的项目中，我们发现各种艺术形式，包括歌曲和音乐、摄影、雕塑和戏剧，都可以用来促进公民和政策行为者之间的对话。通常，政策参与者向公民传达指令，公民直接向政策参与者传达关切，或者公民通过艺术煽动对政策参与者施加公众压力。很少会发生这些参与者之间共同创造理解的情况。该项目将在五个国家建立一个人员网络：毛里塔尼亚、塞内加尔、马里、加纳和肯尼亚。我们将把来自每个国家的艺术家、公民团体、研究人员和政策参与者聚集在一起。这些网络成员将组织国家一级的研讨会，每个研讨会都基于环境可持续发展所关注的具体主题。这些问题包括：气候变化背景下牧民生计的变化、养蜂业的作用、洪水、荒漠化和海平面上升背景下的农业。贯穿这些问题的主题是气候变化背景下的发展。艺术家将促进一项艺术或文化活动，如制作一首歌曲或照片，通过这些活动，公民和政策行为者将分享对这些问题的想法和观点。他们将朝着需要采取的具体政策行动努力。每个讲习班将采取的确切形式由讲习班参加者在讲习班之前和期间在国家一级决定。它将以我们在以前项目中所做的工作为指导。我们将在一个集体数字空间上分享我们的国家级艺术作品，并举行在线对话会议，让所有国际参与者相互学习彼此的经验。这将帮助我们所有人了解什么在不同的地方奏效，如何发挥作用，以及艺术在促进公民和政策之间的沟通方面可以发挥不同的作用。我们将积极邀请其他团体观看我们的作品，参加我们的在线展览/表演，并通过分享他们自己的经验加入我们的网络这是一项真正新颖的活动，特别是在我们的学习环境中，它具有产生强大变化的潜力。学术研究已经开始考虑艺术和人文在构建和理解气候变化情景方面的作用，以及人们赋予不同环境未来的不同含义。但是，在东非和西非的情况下，这些方法是相当新的，还没有被广泛应用于其他环境问题或情景构建之外。因此，这项工作有可能做出重大改变。这也将是具有挑战性的：我们以前的工作发现，根深蒂固的等级制度和部门竖井可以阻止跨学科的变化。这项工作将表明，是否需要挑战这些，才能使艺术产生政策影响。托管我们的成果的网站将在项目生命周期后继续存在。该网络将继续通过它发挥作用，这意味着这项工作可以继续发展为其他国家或国际项目，并产生持久的影响。