CAREER: Mapping the Role of Somatosenses in Youth-Based Creative Activity and Community Engagement

该项目将分析身体在激励青年参与创造性社会活动中的作用，这些活动对他们的生活和社区生活产生积极影响。该项目将侧重于躯体感觉系统-使人体产生感觉的复杂系统-以了解身体的感觉能力如何影响青年的动机及其社会活动的结果。这个职业项目的研究和教学计划整合了国际，参与和学生驱动的研究，以青年为基础，创造性的行动团体（如舞蹈，戏剧和小丑剧团，城市园丁，社区音乐家）在费城，宾夕法尼亚州和哥伦比亚，南美洲。在当地和国外，该项目将照顾处于危险中或受暴力侵害的青年，并将在青年团体与大学生和研究人员之间建立宝贵的联系。参与研究的青年将被视为项目的合作者，并将参与研究活动，以提高他们参与社区的智力和社会能力。通过他们的创造性的社会活动，青年人经常参与各种感官的认知能力，包括：通过音乐激发的听觉，通过肢体运动激发的动觉，以及其他各种各样的感觉和内部或内脏感受。本研究旨在回答以下四个问题，关于感觉身体在青少年创造性社会活动中的作用：（1）通过各种创造性社会活动唤起的躯体感觉知觉类型是什么？(2)这些看似个人的感知如何影响创造性社会项目的发展，以满足他人的需求？(3)多样性和差异性如何影响参与创造性社会活动的身体体验？以及（4）这些动态活动的多尺度映射是否有助于解释青年群体与社区有效合作能力的空间差异？该研究计划将通过一系列重点小组，绘图研讨会和绘图调查，加上在麦德林和博戈塔，哥伦比亚的青年网络以及在费城，宾夕法尼亚州的课程为基础的研究活动扩展参与观察。该项目的深入，参与者驱动的方法将提供详细的了解如何激励青年参与创造性的社会项目，并通过他们的身体，包括如何感觉，如运动（动觉）和观察他人的身体动作和反应，使非语言交流和合作的兴趣，如何体现活动改变青年的感觉和感知他们的内部物质自我（interoception），以及通过感觉身体的动机和合作存在什么限制。

This project will analyze the role of the physical body in motivating youth to participate in creative social activities that positively influence their lives and the lives of their communities. The project will focus on the somatosensorial system - the complex system that enables feeling in the human body - in order to understand how the body's capacity for feeling matters to the motivation of youth as well as to the outcomes of their social activities. The research and pedagogical programs of this CAREER project integrate international, participatory and student-driven research on youth-based, creative action groups (e.g. dance, theater, and clown troupes, urban gardeners, community musicians) in Philadelphia, PA and Colombia, South America. Both locally and abroad, the project will attend to at-risk or violence-afflicted youth, and will generate valuable linkages between youth-based groups and university students and researchers. Youth participants in the research will be respected as co-collaborators of the project and will be involved in research activities that enhance their intellectual and social capacity for attending to their communities. Through their creative social activities, youth often engage various corporeal capacities of sense, including: auditory senses piqued through music, kinesthesia roused through the movement of limbs, and other widely varied forms of sensorial and intero- or visceroception. The research program seeks to answer the following four questions regarding the role of the sensorial body in youth-based creative social activity: (1) What are the types of somatosensorial perceptions that are roused through diverse creative social activities? (2) How do these seemingly individual perceptions matter to the development of creative social projects that address the needs of others? (3) How does diversity and difference influence the physical experience of participation in creative social activities? And (4) can multi-scalar mapping of these dynamic activities help to explain spatial variation in the ability of youth groups to work affectively and effectively with their communities? The research program will proceed through a series of focus groups, mapping workshops and mapping surveys, coupled with extended participant observation with youth networks in Medellín and Bogotá, Colombia as well as course-based research activities in Philadelphia, PA. The project's in-depth, participant-driven methodology will provide detailed understanding of how youth are motivated to partake in creative social projects in and through their bodies, including how sensations like movement (kinesthesia) and observations of others' body movements and reactions enable non-verbal communication and cooperative interest, how embodied activities shift youth's sensation and perception of their internal material self (interoception), and what limitations exist to motivation and collaboration via the sensorial body.