Active Communities Arts Development: Social Prescribing, Sustainable Strategic Planning And Breaking Down Barriers Across Sectors In North Lanarkshire

北拉纳克郡(NL)雄心勃勃的复兴目标包括重塑和重新安置其城镇中心，将其作为支持经济增长的创意和企业之地。这涉及到通过保护或重建空置的优先建筑来发展地方感，并提供“超级枢纽”来支持公共服务的综合提供，包括终身学习、住房、第三部门和成人护理设施、警察和社区安全倡议、商业和就业。NL的高层战略计划突出了各部门共同的优先事项，侧重于人类状况的各个方面，以显著改善希望生活、学习、工作、投资和访问当地的人的生活质量和福祉。然而，艺术和人文学科却没有出现在这一视野中。虽然新冠肺炎强调了在整个NL提供无障碍艺术的必要性，特别是对于被边缘化的群体，但还没有正式的艺术战略。这令人担忧，因为NL在苏格兰32个当局中拥有第四大人口&苏格兰多重剥夺指数报告称，剥夺人口增加。这一合作建立在现有研究的基础上--爱丁堡大学(UoE)的衡量人类研究计划--通过创造力和连通性‘衡量’健康和不平等--以：-与包括边缘化群体在内的社区成员以及健康、教育、商业和就业能力、社会正义和社区安全方面的关键利益攸关方共同制定长期、可持续和‘可衡量的’艺术/创意社区战略计划，将NL的各部门联系起来；学校和基层组织确保从早年到健康老龄化持续获得艺术-实施社会处方模式，通过艺术和人文支持NL社区的健康和福祉-确定将有助于与选民一起设计的可持续再生计划的资产(建筑、文化、人力资源、社区知识和愿望)-为低收入家庭或那些在获得艺术方面遇到障碍的人实施尊严和准入基金-为其他地方当局的艺术/创意社区部门开发共同制作的多部门模板，以便将其应用/适应/馈送到苏格兰和英格兰的国家政策中。区域和当地合作伙伴(苏格兰社区安全网络、苏格兰青年戏剧艺术；NL企业和社区；社区学习和发展；NL教育负责人；NL教育和家庭社会工作服务；NHS拉纳克郡和Tron剧院)。我们将在各种环境中应用衡量人性的框架，通过参与性和了解艺术的倡议，在整个生命周期内与被边缘化的群体/其他社区成员/伙伴联系：-早期教育：创意咨询；艺术流行；未来周五和小学路径-健康老龄化：与疗养院的成年人/痴呆症患者互动的‘无声迪斯科’工作坊-社区安全/社会公正：Musicbox收集社区安全经验，并使社区能够使用有意义的创意、社区工具来捕捉故事-创意财团：在NL实施创意资产测绘活动，以连接合作伙伴和创造与社会处方路径相关联的可持续就业、教育和改善的生活质量机会社区成员将创建一张互动的、非数字的地图(宝藏路径)，向人们展示如何到达艺术场所；展示各种艺术形式；并确定当地的文化资产。我们还将为被切断交通联系的边缘群体试行一项身临其境的出租车剧院试验。这些旅行将把他们带到/离开艺术活动，同时捕捉关于生活经历的有意义的故事，并将它们转化为创造性的播客

North Lanarkshire's (NL) ambitious aim for regeneration includes reshaping and repopulating its town centres as places of creativity and enterprise to support economic growth. This involves developing a sense of place by protecting or redeveloping vacant priority buildings, and providing 'Super Hubs' to support integrated delivery of public services including lifelong learning, housing, third sector & adult care facilities, police & community safety initiatives, business & employment.The high-level strategic plan for NL highlights shared priorities across sectors, focusing on aspects of the human condition to significantly improve the quality of life & wellbeing of people who want to live, learn, work, invest in and visit the locality. The arts and humanities, however, are absent from this vision. While Covid-19 has emphasised the need for accessible arts provision across NL, particularly for marginalised groups, there is no formal arts strategy. This is concerning as NL has the 4th largest population of Scotland's 32 authorities & the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation reports increases in deprivation. This collaboration builds on existing research - the Measuring Humanity research programme 'measuring' health and inequalities through creativity and connectivity - at the University of Edinburgh (UoE) - to: -co-produce a long-term, sustainable and 'measurable' Arts/Creative Communities strategic plan for NL with community members, including marginalised groups, and key stakeholders in health, education, business & employability, social justice & community safety that is integrated and aligned with other sectors' priorities-connect NL's departments, schools and grassroots organisations to ensure sustained access to the arts from early years through to healthy ageing-implement a social prescribing model to support the health & wellbeing of NL communities through the arts and humanities-identify assets (building, cultural, human resources, communities' knowledge & aspirations) that will contribute to a sustainable regeneration plan devised with constituents -implement a dignity and access fund for lower income households or those facing barriers in accessing the arts-develop a co-produced, multi-sectoral template for other local authorities' Arts/Creative Communities departments to apply/adapt/feed into national policies in Scotland & EnglandThe UoE will work with key national, regional and local partners (Scottish Communities Safety Network, Youth Theatre Arts Scotland; NL Enterprise & Communities; Community Learning & Development; NL Head of Education; NL Education & Families Social Work Service; NHS Lanarkshire and the Tron Theatre). We will apply the Measuring Humanity framework in various settings using participatory and arts-informed initiatives to connect with marginalised groups/other community members/partners across the lifespan:-early years education: Creative Consultation; Arts Pop Ups; Future Fridays & Primary Pathways in Schools -healthy aging: interactive 'Silent Disco' workshops with adults in care homes/living with dementia-community safety/social justice: musicBox to gather experiences of community safety and empower communities to capture stories using meaningful creative, community-based tools-creative consortiums: implement a mapping exercise of creative assets in NL to connect partners and create sustainable employment, education and improved quality of life opportunities linked to a social prescribing pathwayCommunity members will create an interactive, non-digital map (treasure trail) to show people how to get to arts venues; showcase various art-forms; and identify local, cultural assets. We will also pilot an Immersive Taxi Theatre Experiment for marginalised groups, cut off from transport links. The trips will get them to/from arts activities, while capturing meaningful stories about life experiences and turn them into creative podcasts