The spatial politics of art organisations' public programmes: can they act as bridges to cultural citizenship?

该研究通过调查艺术组织的方法和影响范围，以及绘制文化参与模式，来评估其公共项目对空间的影响。它将研究公共项目作为美术馆场地之外的文化公民的切入点，从而加深对城市网络和艺术组织激活的文化参与形式的理解。文化公民权的广义定义是文化权利和文化参与的实践。该项目的跨学科框架以博物馆研究、文化研究和人文地理学的理论和方法为基础。它位于围绕文化参与政治的更广泛的话语中，响应对多学科方法的需求，以解决文化组织影响的多维问题。虽然促进参与是文化政策和公共规划的一个关键方面，但文化参与的含义问题仍然没有得到充分理解。如何确切地鼓励文化参与和衡量其影响的问题仍未得到解决，对其空间维度的关注很少。该博士项目旨在深化对英国艺术组织在文化参与中的当前角色的研究。从城市的角度探讨影响问题，该研究侧重于伯明翰的多元文化城市，考虑艺术机构通过其公共项目作为文化公民的基石的潜力。我的研究旨在调查艺术组织的社会影响力，通过使用伯明翰的公共项目作为镜头，并质疑文化公民身份和空间代理方面的影响。它将有助于更深入地了解艺术机构代理的空间性，以及由整个城市的艺术机构产生的网络，特别是询问不同机构的规模、范围和组织结构。该研究回应了最近学者强调地点的重要性和研究博物馆和画廊空间化的新策略的需要，并提出了一种独特而新颖的方法来研究社会影响和文化参与。该研究试图在围绕艺术的社会影响的辩论中定义“文化公民”。-通过寻求所使用的模式与游客体验之间的联系，评估公共项目作为文化公民途径的策略，1)与不同类型艺术机构的专业人士进行访谈。2)通过使用焦点小组与参与的公众建立他们的影响。这将使研究能够确定艺术组织在促进文化公民意识方面的作用（或其他）。-透过与参与公共活动的人士一起绘制参与式图表/绘图，将参与艺术机构的影响置于更广泛的城市背景下，并将参与艺术机构的“外溢”效应映射到城市的其他地区和其他形式的文化参与。这项研究将为艺术机构制定更有效的策略，赋予画廊内外的公众更大的权力。更广泛地说，它将有助于理解文化参与及其障碍/机会，从而具有潜在的政策影响。

The research evaluates the spatial impact of art organisations through their public programmes by investigating their approach and the radius of their reach and by mapping patterns of cultural engagement. It will examine public programmes as points of entry for cultural citizenship beyond the site of the gallery, thus deepening the understanding of the urban networks and forms of cultural participation activated by art organisations. Cultural citizenship is broadly defined as the practice of cultural rights and cultural participation. The project's interdisciplinary framework is underpinned by theories and methodologies within museum studies, cultural studies and human geography. It sits within wider discourse around the politics of cultural participation, responding to the need for a multidisciplinary approach to tackle the multidimensional question of the impact of cultural organisations. While fostering engagement is a key aspect of cultural policy and public programming, the question of what is meant by cultural participation is still not fully understood. The question of how exactly to encourage cultural participation and measure its impact remains unresolved and little attention has been given to its spatial dimension.The doctoral project aims to deepen research on the current role of UK art organisations in cultural engagement. Approaching the issue of impact from an urban perspective, the study focuses on the multicultural city of Birmingham, to consider the potential of art institutions as keystones to cultural citizenship through their public programming.My study aims to investigate the social reach of art organisations, by using public programmes within Birmingham as a lens and questioning impact in terms of cultural citizenship and spatial agency. It will contribute to a deeper understanding of the spatiality of art institutions' agency, and the networks engendered by art organisations across the city, enquiring in particular different institutions in size, scope and organisational structure.The study responds to recent scholars emphasizing the importance of place and the need for new strategies to study the spatialisation of museums and galleries, also proposing a unique and novel methodology to research social impact and cultural participation.The research seeks to:- define 'cultural citizenship' within debates around the social impact of the arts.- evaluate the strategies of public programmes as routes to cultural citizenship by seeking a linkbetween the modalities used and visitors' experience, by 1) conducting interviews with professionals in different types of art organisations. And 2) by establishing their impact by using focus groups with engaged publics. This will enable the research to establish the role (or otherwise) of art organisations in contributing to a sense of cultural citizenship.- situate impact in the wider urban context and map the 'spillover' effects of participation in artinstitutions into other parts of the city and other forms of cultural participation, through participatory diagramming/mapping with participants in public programmes.The study will inform art organisations in developing more effective strategies to empower their publics, within and beyond the gallery walls. More broadly, it will contribute to the understanding of cultural participation and its barriers/opportunities, and thus hold potential policy impact.