The spatial politics of art organisations' public programmes: can they act as bridges to cultural citizenship?

该研究通过调查艺术组织的方法和范围半径以及绘制文化参与模式来评估艺术组织通过其公共项目的空间影响。它将研究公共项目作为画廊网站之外的文化公民身份的切入点，从而加深对艺术组织激活的城市网络和文化参与形式的理解。文化公民权被广泛定义为文化权利和文化参与的实践。该项目的跨学科框架以博物馆研究、文化研究和人文地理学的理论和方法为基础。它坐落在更广泛的话语围绕文化参与的政治，应对需要一个多学科的方法来解决文化组织的影响的多层面问题。虽然促进参与是文化政策和公共规划的一个关键方面，但文化参与的含义仍然没有得到充分理解。如何确切鼓励文化参与并衡量其影响的问题仍未得到解决，而且很少有人关注其空间维度。该博士项目旨在深化对英国艺术组织当前在文化参与中的作用的研究。本研究从城市的角度探讨影响力问题，以伯明翰这座多元文化城市为研究对象，探讨艺术机构通过公共项目作为文化公民身份基石的潜力，以伯明翰的公共项目为透镜，从文化公民身份和空间代理的角度探讨艺术机构的社会影响力。它将有助于更深入地了解艺术机构的空间性，以及艺术机构在城市中形成的网络，特别是在规模，范围和组织结构方面的不同机构。这项研究回应了最近学者强调的地方的重要性以及研究博物馆和画廊空间化的新策略的必要性，并提出了一种独特而新颖的方法来研究社会影响和文化参与。该研究旨在：-在围绕艺术的社会影响的争论中定义“文化公民身份”。-评估公共项目作为文化公民途径的战略，方法是：1）与不同类型艺术组织的专业人员进行访谈。2）通过使用焦点小组与参与的公众建立他们的影响。这将使研究能够建立艺术组织在促进文化公民意识方面的作用（或其他作用）。通过参与公共项目的参与者的参与性规划/绘图，研究在更广泛的城市背景下的影响，并将参与艺术机构的“溢出”效应映射到城市的其他部分和其他形式的文化参与。该研究将为艺术组织制定更有效的战略提供信息，以增强画廊墙内外公众的权能。更广泛地说，它将有助于理解文化参与及其障碍/机会，从而产生潜在的政策影响。

The research evaluates the spatial impact of art organisations through their public programmes by investigating their approach and the radius of their reach and by mapping patterns of cultural engagement. It will examine public programmes as points of entry for cultural citizenship beyond the site of the gallery, thus deepening the understanding of the urban networks and forms of cultural participation activated by art organisations. Cultural citizenship is broadly defined as the practice of cultural rights and cultural participation. The project's interdisciplinary framework is underpinned by theories and methodologies within museum studies, cultural studies and human geography. It sits within wider discourse around the politics of cultural participation, responding to the need for a multidisciplinary approach to tackle the multidimensional question of the impact of cultural organisations. While fostering engagement is a key aspect of cultural policy and public programming, the question of what is meant by cultural participation is still not fully understood. The question of how exactly to encourage cultural participation and measure its impact remains unresolved and little attention has been given to its spatial dimension.The doctoral project aims to deepen research on the current role of UK art organisations in cultural engagement. Approaching the issue of impact from an urban perspective, the study focuses on the multicultural city of Birmingham, to consider the potential of art institutions as keystones to cultural citizenship through their public programming.My study aims to investigate the social reach of art organisations, by using public programmes within Birmingham as a lens and questioning impact in terms of cultural citizenship and spatial agency. It will contribute to a deeper understanding of the spatiality of art institutions' agency, and the networks engendered by art organisations across the city, enquiring in particular different institutions in size, scope and organisational structure.The study responds to recent scholars emphasizing the importance of place and the need for new strategies to study the spatialisation of museums and galleries, also proposing a unique and novel methodology to research social impact and cultural participation.The research seeks to:- define 'cultural citizenship' within debates around the social impact of the arts.- evaluate the strategies of public programmes as routes to cultural citizenship by seeking a linkbetween the modalities used and visitors' experience, by 1) conducting interviews with professionals in different types of art organisations. And 2) by establishing their impact by using focus groups with engaged publics. This will enable the research to establish the role (or otherwise) of art organisations in contributing to a sense of cultural citizenship.- situate impact in the wider urban context and map the 'spillover' effects of participation in artinstitutions into other parts of the city and other forms of cultural participation, through participatory diagramming/mapping with participants in public programmes.The study will inform art organisations in developing more effective strategies to empower their publics, within and beyond the gallery walls. More broadly, it will contribute to the understanding of cultural participation and its barriers/opportunities, and thus hold potential policy impact.