Transforming Lives: young people, art and the city

改变生活：年轻人、艺术和城市。一个互动的，视听的身临其境的装置，调查和庆祝年轻人如何通过艺术改变他们的世界。后续的研究提出了两个问题：*如果我们创建一个利用多学科辩论的现场视听和互动展览，来展示和调查年轻人如何通过艺术改变他们的世界，它看起来、感觉和听起来会是什么样子？*在伦敦和里约热内卢之间正在兴起的奥林匹克文化对话的背景下，我们如何刺激和丰富关于艺术和公民社会之间关系的知识交流？研究的目的是使年轻人能够记录和展示他们是如何通过他们创造的艺术来改变他们的生活和城市的。《改变生活》旨在将年轻人变革性艺术实践的价值与奥林匹克运动的理想联系起来，从而将文化对话、可持续发展、残疾人的无限可能性和奥林匹克休战等奥林匹克主题联系起来。这项研究将从事艺术创作的年轻人与艺术如何改变生活的想法结合在一起，并找到了创新的方式来表达从那次相遇中可以获得的东西。年轻人的艺术作品经常丢失，没有得到认可，因为它给人们的生活带来了真正的改变。这个原创的互动装置是由年轻人制作和策划的，他们记录了自己的工作和其他年轻人的工作。它将重现英国和巴西年轻人的经历和历史，创造一个辩论和庆祝的平台。在研究期间开发的互动技术使人们能够从参观每个地点的设施的普通公众那里收集新的材料，以便在旅行过程中以不同的方式塑造和策划改造生活。该装置将于2011年在盖茨黑德、索尔兹伯里和伦敦展出，然后返回2012年1月首次开发的里约热内卢。在每个地点，都将有一个研讨会，供来自与城市年轻人合作的机构的高级代表参加，每次都与文化奥林匹克的一个关键主题有关。在伦敦，将为文化政策制定者、专注于艺术和社会正义的基金会的代表，以及与年轻人合作的艺术组织的高级董事举行最后一次研讨会。合作伙伴：这个后续项目是人民宫项目[伦敦大学玛丽女王学院以实践为基础的艺术研究中心]、割草机剧院公司(总部设在盖茨黑德的全国性学习困难人士组织)和索尔兹伯里国际艺术节的合作项目。斯佩塔库卢[一所面向里约热内卢周边社区年轻人的平面/风景设计学校]是最初的改造生活项目的合作者，将在2012年主持并支持该项目返回里约[作为后续申请的一部分，不需要财政支持]。他们的支持和承诺，体现在他们的支持信中，对项目的影响和文化交流的成功至关重要，但他们不会为这次后续申请中概述的英国工作提供资源。

Transforming Lives: young people, art and the city. An interactive, audio-visual immersive installation that investigates and celebrates how young people transform their worlds through the arts. The Follow-On research asks two questions:* If we were to create a live audio-visual and interactive exhibition drawing on multidisciplinary debates to illustrate and investigate how young people transform their worlds through the arts, what would it look, feel and sound like?* how can we stimulate and enrich knowledge exchange about the relationship between art and civil society within the context of the emerging Olympic cultural dialogue between London and Rio de Janeiro?The aim of the research is to enable young people to archive and to represent the ways in which they transform their lives and their cities through the art they make. Transforming Lives seeks to link the values of young people's transformational artistic practices with the ideals of the Olympic movement and thereby connect Beyond Text to Olympic themes of cultural dialogue, sustainability, unlimited possibilities for disabled people and the 'Olympic Truce'. The research brings together young people making art with ideas about how art transforms lives, and finds innovative ways to express what can be made from that encounter. Art work by young people is too often lost and unrecognised for its achievements in bringing about real change in people's lives. This original interactive installation is produced and curated by young people who have documented their own work and the work of other young people. It will re-present the experiences and histories of young people in Britain and Brazil, creating a platform for debate and celebration. The interactive technologies developed during the research enable new material to be collected from the general public who visit the installation in each location so that Transforming Lives is shaped and curated in different ways as it travels. The installation will be seen in Gateshead, Salisbury and London in 2011 before travelling back to Rio de Janeiro where it was first developed in January 2012. At each location there will be a seminar for senior representatives from agencies that work with young people in the city, each time with a focus related to one of the key themes from the Cultural Olympics.There will be a final seminar in London for cultural policy makers, representatives from foundations which focus on arts and social justice, and senior directors of arts organisations that work with young people. Partners:This Follow-On project is a collaboration between People's Palace Projects [a practice-based arts research centre at Queen Mary, University of London], Lawnmowers Theatre Company [a national organisation for people with Learning Difficulties based in Gateshead], and Salisbury International Arts Festival. Spectaculu [a graphic/scenic design school for young people from peripheral communities in Rio de Janeiro] is a collaborator on the original Transforming Lives project and will host and support the return of the project to Rio in 2012 [financial support not required as part of this Follow-On application]. Their support and commitment, demonstrated in their Letter of Support, is essential to the impact of the project and the success of the cultural exchange, but they will not be committing resources to the UK work outlined in this Follow-On application.