Building the Barricades (ES/S000720/1) Follow-On: mobilising research on mental health and substance use in Complexo da Maré, Rio de Janeiro

这项提议是一个独特的机会，可以将《建造路障》(ES/S000720/1)的研究成果介绍给新的受众。在马雷缺乏医疗干预和社会援助的情况下，原始研究中进行的研究提请注意积极参与艺术和文化活动对个人从精神健康障碍中恢复以及建立心理健康复原力和福祉的重要性。后续提案将使用以艺术为基础的方法(现场表演、装置和视觉艺术)来扩大研究的影响，同时促进里约热内卢马雷建筑群公民的福祉。该项目的现有研究已经通过一系列正在进行的出版物、研究研讨会和会议吸引了国际学术界的参与。现在的重点将是让广大受众以及致力于并负责在里约热内卢和拉丁美洲提供心理健康和福祉服务的主要利益攸关方参与进来。该项目将在里约热内卢建立一个心理健康委员会，由来自民间社会组织和在马雷提供医疗保健服务的政府机构的15名代表组成，他们将根据最初的研究结果提出建议，并倡导医疗政策改革，以改善马雷的医疗服务。与Fiocruz合作，我们将主持三场圆桌辩论，进一步动员民间社会组织以及城市、州和联邦机构通过这项研究解决马雷等地区居民的心理健康后果。研究小组还将主持一次知识交流访问，与在波哥大、利马和布宜诺斯艾利斯脆弱地区工作的民间社会组织分享方法和研究成果，作为遗产和普利贝(Co-I)建立的艺术和心理健康区域网络的一部分。这项后续提案将在研究的解释和传播中激发一系列声音。该提案与民间社会和研究机构马雷发展网络(MDN)合作，将确保研究成果继续在马雷社区登记。马雷是里约热内卢的一个拥有16个贫民窟的地区，有超过14万居民。在过去的18个月里，英国和巴西的联合研究团队建立了一个跨学科的分析和方法框架，架起了地理、社会和学科边界的桥梁。原始研究的一部分使用基于艺术的实践来制作叙事和图像，挑战与精神、神经和物质使用(MNS)障碍相关的污名和排斥。这些做法包括与马雷居民以及诗人、音乐家、摄影师和视觉艺术家举办讲习班和活动(现场和在线)。除了这项研究，该团队的成员还为那些经常出现在开放使用的裂缝地点的人建立了一个合唱团。这些创造性举措的成功打开了意想不到的机会，探索综合方法，在参与这项多学科研究的各种机构和学术界以外的各种新受众之间产生和传播学习成果。里约热内卢领先的国际艺术节之一Multiplicidade已邀请遗产(PI)根据2021年10月在Estadual图书馆的研究成果创作表演/装置。这场演出/装置暂时名为‘Mais Becos’，将由一位著名的巴西当代音乐家指挥，致力于流行艺术形式、音乐和摄影，并参与最初研究期间绘制的31项基于社区的艺术倡议，包括唱诗班和来自马雷的1000多名居民。

This proposal arises from a unique opportunity to bring the research findings from Building the Barricades (ES/S000720/1) to new audiences. In the absence of medical interventions and social assistance in Maré, the studies undertaken in the original research have drawn attention to the importance of active participation in art and cultural activities for individuals' recovery from mental health disorders as well as to build mental health resilience and wellbeing. The follow-on proposal will use arts-based methodologies (live performance, installation and visual arts) to extend the impact of the research, whilst simultaneously contributing to increased well-being amongst the citizens of the Complexo da Maré, Rio de Janeiro. The project's existing research has already engaged the international academic community through an ongoing series of publications, research seminars and conferences. The focus will now be on engaging general audiences as well as key stakeholders committed to, and responsible for, the delivery of mental health and well-being services in Rio de Janeiro and Latin America. The project will establish a Mental Health Committee in Rio de Janeiro, made up of 15 representatives from civil society organisations and government agencies delivering health care provision in Maré, who will develop recommendations based on the original research findings and advocate for health policy reform to improve provision in Maré. In collaboration with FIOCRUZ, we will host three roundtable debates, further engaging civil society organisations as well as city, state and federal agencies addressing the mental health consequences for residents of territories like Maré with the research. The research team will also host a knowledge exchange visit, sharing methodologies and the research findings with civil society organisations working in fragile territories in Bogotá, Lima and Buenos Aires as part of a regional network on arts and mental health established by HERITAGE and PRIEBE (Co-I). This follow-on proposal will activate a range of voices in the interpretation and dissemination of the research. Working with the civil society and research organisation Maré Development Networks (MDN), the proposal will ensure that the research findings continue to register with the community in Complexo da Maré, a territory of 16 favelas in Rio de Janeiro which is home to over 140,000 residents. Over the past 18 months, the combined British and Brazilian research team have built an inter-disciplinary analytical and methodological framework that bridges geographical, social and disciplinary borders. One strand of the original research has used arts-based practices to produce narratives and images that challenge stigma and exclusion associated with Mental, Neurological and Substance Use (MNS) disorders. These practices included workshops and events (live and online) with residents from Maré and poets, musicians, photographers and visual artists. Alongside the research, members of the team also established a choir for those who frequent the open-use crack sites. The success of these creative initiatives has opened up unexpected opportunities to explore integrated ways to produce and disseminate learning between the various agents involved in this multidisciplinary research and a diverse range of new audiences beyond academia. Multiplicidade, one of Rio's leading international arts festivals, has invited HERITAGE (PI) to create a performance/installation based on the research findings at the Biblioteca Parque Estadual in October 2021. Provisionally entitled 'Mais Becos', this performance/installation will be directed by a leading Brazilian contemporary musician working with popular art-forms, music and photography, and engage 31 community-based arts initiatives mapped during the original research, including the choir, and over 1,000 residents from Maré.