Ethics and Aesthetics of Encountering the Other: New Frameworks for Engaging with Difference

遭遇他人的伦理与美学：参与差异的新框架

基本信息

批准号：
AH/T005637/1
负责人：
Magdalena Kubanyiova
金额：
$ 4.62万
依托单位：
University of Leeds
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT005637%2F1
关键词：
Ethics Aesthetics Encountering Other New

项目摘要

This international research network asks: How do people of conflicting worldviews, memories and future visions encounter each other? Cultural, civic and educational organisations are expected to create a platform for such encounters and their public value is increasingly assessed on how well they reflect societal diversity in their core activity, outreach and governance. While some improvement on diversity measures, such as gender, age, ethnicity or disability, is evident within these sectors, less is known on what meaningful engagement across and within these categories looks like, why and how it matters and what it takes to foster it. This is an urgent question in the face of disconcerting societal tendencies around the world: the coarsening of public discourse in increasingly divided societies, the rise of political and military activism fuelled by hostility and violence towards the other, or the fast-spreading epidemic of loneliness and mental illness across and within generations and social strata. This network is based on the recognition that genuine engagement with difference of any kind is necessary for building peaceful, sustainable and healthy communities. It also acknowledges, however, that success on diversity measures alone does not guarantee meaningful encounters with those who are not like 'us'. Such engagement requires effort, can be difficult to bring about, and sharing the same space is a necessary but insufficient condition for it to occur. The Network addresses this challenge by shifting the theoretical focus from diversity as a social category to difference as a quality that defines every human being. This shift implies that human interactions of any kind are meetings with difference. They are not made meaningful by emphasising sameness, but by exercising an ethical commitment to preserving difference while making a genuine contact. How individuals and communities practise this encounter with 'the other' across diverse contexts of human activity can have profound consequences for addressing some of the global societal conflicts. The Network brings together international artists, linguists and philosophers to examine aesthetic and ethical dimensions of communal meaning making across geographical boundaries and domains of social life: in music and dance rehearsal rooms, in museums and art galleries, in theatres, markets, service encounters, schools. We will study existing research and experiential evidence of these interactions and examine what genuine encounters with difference look like and what it takes to enable them. The resulting theoretical and methodological frameworks will advance inquiry across academic disciplines and creative practices. The practical guidelines will support public institutions in the UK and internationally in their commitment not only to reach diverse communities but to become catalysts for genuine encounters across divides of any kind. More generally, through engaging with one another's disciplines, cultural contexts, existing research data and ways of working, the Network will develop new conceptual frameworks, analytical approaches and practical proposals for researching and living in complex, changing conditions.The Network will be organised in two one-day seminars, a public assembly and a dissemination lab to consolidate Network outputs. The seminars will include short data-led provocations, keynotes, experiential sessions and moderated conversations. The public assembly will reach out to a wide range of stakeholders, including arts organisations, educational charities, local authorities, health and mental wellbeing agencies and social care sector. The material will be disseminated through creative outputs (interactive website and a digital ethnography blog led by a Doctoral Researcher in Residence), social media and professional workshops. The Network will facilitate the development of new partnerships and inform future inquiry into global challenges of societal conflict.

这个国际研究网络提出这样的问题：世界观、记忆和未来愿景相互冲突的人们如何相遇？文化、公民和教育组织应为此类相遇创造一个平台，其公共价值越来越多地根据其在核心活动、外展和治理中反映社会多样性的程度进行评估。虽然这些部门在性别、年龄、种族或残疾等多样性指标上取得了一些明显的进步，但人们对这些类别之间和内部的有意义的参与是什么样子、为什么重要、如何重要以及如何促进它的了解较少。。面对世界各地令人不安的社会趋势，这是一个紧迫的问题：日益分裂的社会中公共话语的粗化、对他人的敌意和暴力助长的政治和军事激进主义的兴起，或者孤独感的迅速蔓延以及跨代和跨代及社会阶层的精神疾病。该网络的基础是认识到真正参与任何类型的差异对于建设和平、可持续和健康的社区是必要的。然而，它也承认，仅在多样性措施上取得成功并不能保证与那些不同于“我们”的人进行有意义的接触。这种参与需要付出努力，可能很难实现，而共享同一空间是其发生的必要但不充分的条件。该网络通过将理论焦点从作为社会类别的多样性转移到作为定义每个人的品质的差异来应对这一挑战。这种转变意味着任何类型的人类互动都是有差异的会议。它们的意义不是通过强调相同性来实现的，而是通过在进行真诚接触的同时履行保留差异的道德承诺来实现的。个人和社区如何在人类活动的不同背景下实践与“他者”的相遇，可能会对解决一些全球社会冲突产生深远的影响。该网络汇集了国际艺术家、语言学家和哲学家，研究跨越地理边界和社会生活领域的公共意义的美学和伦理维度：在音乐和舞蹈排练室、博物馆和艺术画廊、剧院、市场、服务接触、学校。我们将研究这些相互作用的现有研究和经验证据，并研究真正的差异遭遇是什么样的，以及如何实现它们。由此产生的理论和方法框架将推动跨学科和创造性实践的探究。实用指南将支持英国和国际上的公共机构致力于不仅接触多元化社区，而且成为跨越任何类型分歧的真正接触的催化剂。更一般地说，通过相互的学科、文化背景、现有研究数据和工作方式，该网络将为在复杂、不断变化的条件下进行研究和生活制定新的概念框架、分析方法和实用建议。该网络将在两次为期一天的研讨会、一次公共集会和一个传播实验室，以巩固网络成果。研讨会将包括以数据为主导的简短讨论、主题演讲、体验会议和主持对话。公众集会将与广泛的利益相关者接触，包括艺术组织、教育慈善机构、地方当局、健康和心理健康机构以及社会关怀部门。这些材料将通过创意成果（互动网站和由驻场博士研究员领导的数字民族志博客）、社交媒体和专业研讨会进行传播。该网络将促进新伙伴关系的发展，并为未来对社会冲突全球挑战的调查提供信息。