Embedding and Enabling Creative Economy in Marginalised Societies: Creative Skills for Peace

2021年是联合国创意经济促进可持续发展国际年，强调通过为所有人提供机会、福利和赋权，促进联网和分享最佳做法和经验，促进可持续和包容性经济增长的重要性。该项目通过提高年轻人的技能来提高人力资源能力，并开发教材，将其嵌入南非和津巴布韦大学提供的本科模块，以应对创意经济的挑战，从而实现这些规定的目标和愿景。这个项目的基本原理脱离了我们过去和现在的AHRC青年、和平教育和艺术项目的需求和需要。我们之前的AHRC项目显示了对利用土著艺术和文化遗产为社区创造可持续经济生计的强烈需求，以及将当地社区可用的艺术和艺术资源融入和平教学的需求。例如，来自南非的一个这样的例子侧重于使用声音制作来识别冲突的空间和声音，以及如何在早期看到这些，以便及时干预冲突的空间，然后用于建立一个框架，可以为和平教育的学习设计提供信息。利用将和平教育与创意经济和和平的社会经济方面联系起来的差距，该项目旨在i)巩固从以前的AHRC项目中学习的知识，并建立和加强南非青年、艺术家、当地社区、艺术组织、非政府组织和其他利益相关者之间的参与渠道；（二）通过制作4（至6）周的教育材料，支持和促成目前受官方发展援助削减影响的非洲非殖民化和平教育项目的关键影响活动。因此，该项目旨在通过为年轻人存放这些教育材料来留下遗产，从而使南非和津巴布韦的物质和非物质文化遗产能够得到利用。这些培训材料将通过开放教育资源和指导手册提供，并将纳入对津巴布韦下一代艺术和遗产学科教师和南南非大学商学院本科生的培训，每年至少向330名学生提供培训。在此过程中，该项目有几个相互关联的目标，以加深参与和影响。这些措施包括提高边缘化社区的年轻人与艺术家的技能，以建立更具包容性的社会；确保年轻人接触到艺术培训和地方、区域和国际知识共享网络，为他们面临的全球挑战提供当地解决方案，并通过发展和保存艺术和创业培训来发展文化与教育之间的协同作用，以满足文化劳动力市场的需求。我们期望这些目标将通过利用地方和文化遗产作为减少这些社区结构性不平等的经济途径来支持和平的社会经济方面。大多数现有的项目和活动都集中在知名艺术家身上，但在创意经济战略中，关注边缘社区和他们自己的艺术的倡议很少。因此，我们通过与才华横溢的艺术年轻人合作来解决这一差距，这些年轻人没有机会接触到艺术培训和其他相关的营销、创业和巡演技能，这对创意经济至关重要。该项目将发表至少3篇期刊论文，1本合作编辑的跨学科书籍。艺术和人文的方法将通过展览、演出和工作坊来展示。该项目还将创建一个由研究人员、政策制定者和社区组织组成的可见网络，这些组织共同努力，提供新的有意义的知识、教学法和教材，以促进创意经济和和平经济。

The UN International Year of the Creative Economy for Sustainable Development 2021 highlights the importance of promoting sustainable and inclusive economic growth through providing opportunities, benefits and empowerment for all, promoting networking and sharing best practices and experiences. This project addresses these stipulated goals and vision by enhancing human resource capacity through upskilling young people and by developing teaching materials to embed into undergraduate modules offered in South Africa and Zimbabwe Universities to tackle the challenges of the creative economy. The rationale of this project departs from the demand and need to engage with our past and current AHRC projects on youth, peace education, and arts. Our previous AHRC projects showed a strong demand for using indigenous arts and cultural heritage for creating sustainable economic livelihoods for the communities as well as the need to embed the arts and art resources available in local communities into the teaching of peace. One such example from South Africa, for instance, focused on the use of sound productions to identify spaces and sounds of conflict and how these can be seen early on to allow for timely intervention in spaces of conflict and then used to build a framework that can inform the learning design of peace education. Drawing on the gap of linking up peace education with creative economy and the socio-economic aspects of peace, this project aims to i) consolidate learning from previous AHRC projects and establish and strengthen channels of engagement between youth, artists, local communities, art organisations, NGOs, and other stakeholders in South Africa, UK and Zimbabwe and ii) support and enable the key impact activity of current ODA-cut affected Decolonising Peace Education in Africa project by producing 4 (to 6) weeks of educational materials. Thus, the project aims to leave a legacy by depositing these educational materials for the youth to enable the use of tangible and intangible cultural heritages in South Africa and Zimbabwe. These training materials will be made available through an OER and a guidebook, and they will be embedded in the training of next generation of art and heritage subject teachers in Zimbabwe and undergraduate students in the Business school at UNISA by reaching out to at least 330 students every year. In doing so, the project has several interlinked objectives to deepen engagement and impact. These are upskilling young people with artists in marginalised communities to establish more inclusive societies; ensuring that young people reach out to the art trainings and local, regional and international knowledge-sharing networks that provide local solutions to the global challenges they face, and developing synergies between culture and education by developing and depositing art and entrepreneurship training to meet the demands of cultural labour markets. We expect these goals will support socio-economic aspects of peace by using local and cultural heritage as an economic route to reduce structural inequalities in these communities. Most of the existing projects and activities have focused on established artists but there are few initiatives that focus on marginalised communities and their own arts in the creative economy strategy. Therefore, we address this gap by working with highly talented young people in arts who do not have the opportunities to reach out to art trainings and other related marketing, entrepreneurship and touring skills essential for creative economy. The project will deliver at least 3 journal articles, 1 co-edited interdisciplinary book. The arts and humanities methods will be showcased through exhibitions, performances and workshops. The project will also create a visible network of researchers, policymakers and community organisations that work together to offer new meaningful knowledges, pedagogies and teaching materials to promote creative economy as well as peace economy.