Pan-African network for the arts in environmentally sustainable development

泛非环境可持续发展艺术网络

基本信息

批准号：
AH/W006642/1
负责人：
Imogen Bellwood-Howard
金额：
$ 16.63万
依托单位：
Institute of Development Studies
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW006642%2F1
关键词：
Pan African network arts environmentally

项目摘要

This project uses the arts as a way to facilitate communication between citizens and policy actors, on issues of environmentally sustainable development. The project will establish a network of people across Africa to trial this, learn about how it works in different places, and even achieve policy impact in relation to live environmental issues that concern them.It draws on two previously funded AHRC projects. In our previous projects, we found that various art forms, including song and music, photography, sculpture and plays, can be used to facilitate dialogue between citizens and policy actors. Often, policy actors communicate directives 'down' to citizens, citizens communicate concerns directly 'up' to policy actors, or citizens agitate through art to create public pressure on policy actors. Rarely, co-creation of understanding between these actors may take place. The project will create a network of people across five countries: Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Ghana and Kenya. We will bring together artists, citizen groups, researchers and policy actors from each country. These network members will organise national level workshops, each one based on a specific theme of concern to environmentally sustainable development. These include: changes to pastoral livelihoods in the contexts of climate change, the role of apiculture, flooding, desertification, and farming in the context of sea level rise. The theme running through these issues is development in the context of climate change. Artists will facilitate an artistic or cultural activity, such as production of a song or photographs, through which citizens and policy actors will share ideas and perspectives on these issues. They will work towards specific policy actions that need to happen. The exact format each workshop will take is decided at national level by the workshop participants before and during the workshop. It will be guided by the work we did in previous projects.We will share our national level artworks on a group digital space, and have an online dialogue session where all international participants learn about each other's experiences. This will help us all understand what worked in different places and how, and the different roles the arts can play in facilitating communication between citizens and policy. We will actively invite other groups to view our works, attend our online exhibition/ performances, and join our network by sharing their own experiences This is a truly novel activity, especially in our study contexts, and it has the potential to engender powerful changes. Academic research has begun to consider the role of the arts and humanities in building and understanding climate change scenarios, and the different meanings people ascribe to different environmental futures. But, these approaches are fairly new in the East and West African contexts, and have not been widely applied to other environmental issues or beyond scenario building. The work therefore has potential to make significant changes. It will also be challenging: our former work found that entrenched hierarchies and sectoral silos can prevent transdisciplinary change. This work will show whether these need to be challenged for the arts to make policy impact. The website hosting our outputs will remain live after the project lifetime. The network will continue to function through it, meaning that this work can go on to develop into other national or international projects, and have enduring impact.

该项目利用艺术作为促进公民与政策行为者之间在环境可持续发展问题上进行交流的方式。该项目将在非洲建立一个人网络，以试用此问题，了解其在不同地方的运作方式，甚至在与他们有关的实时环境问题上产生政策影响。在我们以前的项目中，我们发现各种艺术形式，包括歌曲和音乐，摄影，雕塑和戏剧，可用于促进公民与政策参与者之间的对话。政策行为者通常会向公民传达“向下”的指示，公民直接传达问题，直接向政策参与者传达“往来”，或者公民通过艺术煽动公众对政策行为者造成公众压力。很少有这些参与者之间的理解共同创造。该项目将在五个国家 /地区建立一个网络：毛里塔尼亚，塞内加尔，马里，加纳和肯尼亚。我们将召集每个国家的艺术家，公民团体，研究人员和政策行为者。这些网络成员将基于环境可持续发展的特定主题组织国家级研讨会。其中包括：在气候变化的背景下，对田园生计的变化，宗教，洪水，荒漠化和耕种的作用在海平面上升的背景下。在这些问题中运行的主题是在气候变化的背景下发展。艺术家将促进艺术或文化活动，例如歌曲或照片的制作，公民和政策演员将对这些问题分享思想和观点。他们将朝着需要采取的特定政策行动努力。每个研讨会将采取的确切格式是在研讨会之前和期间由研讨会参与者在国家一级决定的。我们将以我们在以前的项目中所做的工作为指导。我们将在小组数字空间上分享我们的国家级艺术品，并进行在线对话会议，所有国际参与者都了解彼此的经验。这将帮助我们所有人了解在不同地方有效的方法，以及如何以及艺术在促进公民与政策之间的交流中所扮演的不同角色。我们将积极邀请其他团体观看我们的作品，参加我们的在线展览/表演，并通过分享自己的经验来加入我们的网络，这是一项真正的新颖活动，尤其是在我们的研究环境中，它有可能实现强大的变化。学术研究已开始考虑艺术和人文学科在建立和理解气候变化情景中的作用，以及人们归因于不同环境未来的不同含义。但是，这些方法在东非和西非的情况下是相当新的，并且并未被广泛应用于其他环境问题或场景建设之外。因此，这项工作有可能进行重大改变。这也将是具有挑战性的：我们以前的工作发现，根深蒂固的层次结构和部门孤岛可以防止跨学科的变化。这项工作将表明是否需要挑战艺术才能产生政策影响。托管我们的输出的网站将在项目寿命之后保持寿命。该网络将继续通过它运行，这意味着这项工作可以继续发展为其他国家或国际项目，并具有持久的影响。