Understanding Everyday Participation - Articulating Cultural Values

该项目提出了对参与和文化价值之间关系的彻底重新评估。它汇集了来自深入历史分析的证据，重新使用现有的定量数据和关于“日常参与”的细节，动态和意义的新的定性研究，它将通过参与创造对社区形成，连通性和能力的新理解。创意经济的正统模式和随之而来的文化政策基于对文化参与的狭隘定义;这种定义抓住了与传统文化机构的正式接触，如博物馆和画廊，但忽视了其他活动，如社区节日和爱好。这一框架，历史上建立在赤字为基础的国家文化支持的逻辑假设，错过了机会，了解各种形式的参与及其（积极和消极）的后果。我们认为，通过创造日常参与，社区和文化价值之间的关系的新的理解，我们将揭示隐藏的资产和资源，可以调动，以促进更好地识别和更公平的文化资源的证据机会，产生福祉，并有助于创造性的地方经济的发展。中心的研究问题是：-从历史上看，我们是如何得出今天文化参与和价值观念的定义、知识领域和政策框架的？日常参与的形式和做法是什么-在哪里进行？它们如何被估价？这些做法与正式参与有何关系？参与是如何被空间、地点和地方塑造的？社区是如何通过参与而形成、瓦解、分裂和联系的？如何更广泛地理解参与的价值，并通过参与为充满活力的社区和创造性的地方经济的发展提供信息？我们如何将文化政策和机构与日常参与重新联系起来？使用各种方法，包括历史分析，与实践和使用社区的定性工作，以及对参与和时间使用的现有数据的重新分析，该项目侧重于六个对比鲜明的“文化生态系统”，以调查社区（地理，选修，基于身份等），文化价值，“文化经济”和日常参与的多重理解之间的联系。从现场案例研究的结果将告知四个新的政策干预或专业或社区做法的伙伴关系运作的试验。在整个项目研究过程中，将与主要合作伙伴、利益相关者文化和社区组织相结合，以便更好地理解日常文化参与及其对国家、地方和社区各级政策制定者和文化组织的影响。

This project proposes a radical re-evaluation of the relationship between participation and cultural value. Bringing together evidence from in-depth historical analyses, the re-use of existing quantitative data and new qualitative research on the detail, dynamics and significance of 'everyday participation', it will create new understandings of community formation, connectivity and capacity through participation. Orthodox models of the creative economy and ensuing cultural policy are based on a narrow definition of cultural participation; one that captures formal engagement with traditional cultural institutions, such as museums and galleries, but overlooks other activities, for instance community festivals and hobbies. This frame, founded historically on deficit based assumptions of the logics for state cultural support, misses opportunities to understand the variety of forms of participation and their (positive and negative) consequences. We argue that by creating new understandings of the relationships between everyday participation, community and cultural value, we will reveal evidence of hidden assets and resources that can be mobilised to promote better identification and more equitable resourcing of cultural opportunities, generate well-being and contribute to the development of creative local economies. The central research questions are:- How, historically, did we arrive at the definitions, fields of knowledge and policy frames informing notions of cultural participation and value today?- What are the forms and practices of everyday participation - where do they take place? How are they valued? And how do these practices relate to formal participation?- How is participation shaped by space, place and locality?- How are communities made, unmade, divided and connected through participation?- How can broader understandings of value in and through participation be used to inform the development of vibrant communities and creative local economies?- How do we reconnect cultural policy and institutions with everyday participation?Using a variety of methodologies, including historical analysis, qualitative work with communities of practice and use, and the reanalysis of existing data on participation and time-use, this project focuses on six contrasting 'cultural ecosystems' to investigate the connections between multiple understandings of community (geographical, elective, identity based etc), cultural value, 'cultural economy' and everyday participation. The findings from the situated case studies will inform four partnership-operated trials of new policy interventions or of professional or community practices. Throughout the project research will be integrated with key partners, stakeholder cultural and community organisations in order to evolve better, shared understandings of everyday cultural participation and the implications of this for policy makers and cultural organisations at national, local and community levels.