'Critical Play': participatory tactics for radical citizenship.

“批判性游戏”：激进公民的参与策略。

• 批准号: 2423046
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2423046
• 关键词: Critical; Play; participatory; tactics; radical

The recent social unrest in Chile has generated the need amongst citizens and the civil society to come together to discuss about the issues fuelling public discontent. Many different initiatives have called for active forms of citizenship in voicing and articulating a reflective debate on social, economic and urban inequality. From mass mobilisation and social protests, to participatory urban performances and self-organised or convocated cabildos, civic participation in its many forms have taken over the streets.Since the 1960s, a 'participatory turn' has helped reshape societies and the public sphere, by inviting citizens to become empowered through participation in decision-making processes. In Chile today, in a climate of social, cultural and political unrest, participation is being enacted through 'invented spaces' (Cornwall, 2007) that blur the boundaries between the social, the political and the arts.These radical forms of participation suggest a potential to re-evaluate traditional approaches, which tend to be bound up in a disciplinary remit or field and constrained by the limitations they impose - whether it be in realms as diverse as governance, international development, urban design and planning, or the arts, amongst others. The intention of this research is to understand the potential that an interdisciplinary approach to participation might bring in delivering the commonly shared ideals of engagement, collaboration, empowerment, capability and political agency, that strictly disciplinary practices have arguably failed to deliver (Bishop, 2004; Gaventa and Cornwall, 2006; Hickey and Mohan, 2004).The particular approach of this research is underpinned by the concept of 'critical play'; that is, the idea that 'play' and the play element in culture (Huizinga, 1949; Arendt, 1982; Sutton-Smith, 1997; Caillois and Barash, 2001, Bakhtin, 1981), when used as a critical tool for civic engagement, can advance the radical and transformative potential of participation. Promoting this concept as a theoretical and methodological framework, the research will explore the way in which participatory processes as 'critical play', can mediate the performative (Butler, 2009; Harvie, 2013), the contextual (Haraway, 1988; Rose, 1997), the relational (Bourriaud, 2002), the pedagogical (Freire, 1977), the dialogical (Gadamer, 2003), the aesthetical and the political (Rancière, 2004).These ideas will be examined in the context of Chile's current climate of political polarisation and social unrest, through research into practices and forms of civic engagement that blur the boundaries between politics, the arts and social activism, alongside tactical interventions in the form of participatory action research (PAR). The research will measure the extent to which 'critical play', as a design methodology can help reconceptualise participation as a radical form of citizenship.

智利最近的社会动荡使公民和民间社会有必要走到一起，讨论引发公众不满的问题。许多不同的倡议都要求公民采取积极的形式，就社会、经济和城市不平等问题发表意见和进行反思性辩论。从群众动员和社会抗议，到参与性的城市表演和自行组织或召集的cabildos，公民参与的多种形式已经占据了街头。自20世纪60年代以来，"参与性转向"通过邀请公民通过参与决策过程获得权力，帮助重塑了社会和公共领域。在今天的智利，在社会、文化和政治动荡的气氛中，参与正在通过"发明的空间"来实现。（康沃尔，2007），模糊了社会，政治和艺术之间的界限。这些激进的参与形式表明有可能重新评估传统的方法，这些学科往往被束缚在一个学科范围或领域内，并受到它们所施加的限制的约束--无论是在治理、国际发展、城市设计和规划等不同领域，或者艺术等等。本研究的目的是了解跨学科参与方法在实现参与、协作、赋权、能力和政治机构等共同理想方面可能带来的潜力，而严格的纪律做法可以说是无法实现这些理想的（Bishop，2004; Gaventa and Cornwall，2006; Hickey and Mohan，2004）。也就是说，“游戏”和文化中的游戏元素（Huizinga，1949; Arendt，1982; Sutton-Smith，1997; Caillois和Barash，2001; Bakhtin，1981），当被用作公民参与的关键工具时，可以促进参与的根本和变革潜力。将这一概念作为理论和方法论框架，该研究将探索作为“批判性游戏”的参与过程如何调解表演性（Butler，2009; Harvie，2013），上下文（Haraway，1988年; Rose，1997），关系（Bourriaud，2002年），教育学（Freire，1977），对话（伽达默尔，2003），美学和政治（Rancière，2004年）。这些想法将在智利目前政治两极分化和社会动荡的背景下进行审查，通过研究模糊政治，艺术和社会行动主义，以及参与性行动研究（PAR）形式的战术干预。这项研究将衡量“批判性游戏”作为一种设计方法在多大程度上有助于将参与重新定义为一种激进的公民形式。