The document provides an overview of a presentation given on October 18, 2018 at SUPSI on developments in social work. It discusses research conducted on cultural events and public art in Douala, Luanda, and Johannesburg between 1991-2013. The research aimed to document and map these cultural productions, and assess their impact on urban safety. It found that while the arts provide an experimental space, cultural events and public art can both positively and negatively impact safety, including through forced evictions. Land ownership was also found to influence the impact and community engagement of such projects.
The document describes an immersive art installation called FLUIDATA created by the Brisbane-based performance group Igneous. It will be on display from June 13-20, 2015 at the QUT Creative Industries Precinct in Brisbane. The installation explores Queensland's waterways through digital media and performances. It incorporates media that Igneous collected from traveling over 7,000 km and documenting local creeks and waterways. Visitors can interact with the multimedia installation to have unique experiences reflecting on water and the environment. Live performances will also stream online to connect local and international audiences.
This document outlines the lessons and schedule for a course on heritage management. It discusses key concepts like the definition of heritage, structure of proposals, legislation and copyright, critical analysis, stakeholders, target groups, and authenticity. For each lesson, it provides the date, topic, and brief description. It also lists relevant literature and background of the instructor. The estimated time to complete the course assignments is 20 hours. The document aims to provide students with the necessary framework and context to critically analyze heritage sites and develop effective management proposals.
Mobile a2k is a project that aims to document and assess the impact of cultural events and public art on urban safety in three African cities: Douala, Cameroon; Luanda, Angola; and Johannesburg, South Africa. The project partners with various arts organizations in Africa and will evaluate whether cultural activities can positively impact factors like livability, social cohesion, and civic participation in cities experiencing violence. Mobile a2k will contribute its findings to Wikiafrica in 2014 to spread knowledge about relationships between culture and urban safety in Africa.
SSCC is pleased to announce the start of its biggest and most ambitious project on Cultural Diplomacy. Twenty-one academic and other institutions have joined this programme which is led by SSCC and Academia Dimitri, SUPSI (The University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland), and shortly, also, by the University of Salento in Italy.
Le applicazioni della realtà aumentata nelle arti visive e nella poesiaMinistry of Education
The document discusses using augmented reality in visual arts and poetry. It describes how mobile devices and augmented reality can be used to navigate cities and observe different layers of reality. Emotional journeys with augmented reality engaged citizens and visitors with local heritage and art. The document outlines several augmented reality art projects in Italian cities between 2011-2012, including evaluations that found social, creative thinking, emotional and territorial benefits. It concludes by discussing the "performative absolute" and role of augmented reality in creating collective rituals and rebuilding social bonds after disaster.
Boston Civic Media Projects from Consortium AffiliatesBecky Michelson
These are some of the projects created by faculty from the Boston Civic Media Consortium and Network. The mission of the Boston CMC+N is to build relationships, share knowledge and develop innovative curriculum in civic media. This is a faculty-led initiative that links ten higher education institutions and numerous community partner organizations across the Greater Boston region. This initiative is organized by the Emerson Engagement Lab and funded by the Teagle Foundation.
The broader Boston Civic Media Network includes practitioners, students, nonprofits and government leaders. We want to work towards building a strong, collaborative network of engaged research and teaching across the Boston area.
The document describes an immersive art installation called FLUIDATA created by the Brisbane-based performance group Igneous. It will be on display from June 13-20, 2015 at the QUT Creative Industries Precinct in Brisbane. The installation explores Queensland's waterways through digital media and performances. It incorporates media that Igneous collected from traveling over 7,000 km and documenting local creeks and waterways. Visitors can interact with the multimedia installation to have unique experiences reflecting on water and the environment. Live performances will also stream online to connect local and international audiences.
This document outlines the lessons and schedule for a course on heritage management. It discusses key concepts like the definition of heritage, structure of proposals, legislation and copyright, critical analysis, stakeholders, target groups, and authenticity. For each lesson, it provides the date, topic, and brief description. It also lists relevant literature and background of the instructor. The estimated time to complete the course assignments is 20 hours. The document aims to provide students with the necessary framework and context to critically analyze heritage sites and develop effective management proposals.
Mobile a2k is a project that aims to document and assess the impact of cultural events and public art on urban safety in three African cities: Douala, Cameroon; Luanda, Angola; and Johannesburg, South Africa. The project partners with various arts organizations in Africa and will evaluate whether cultural activities can positively impact factors like livability, social cohesion, and civic participation in cities experiencing violence. Mobile a2k will contribute its findings to Wikiafrica in 2014 to spread knowledge about relationships between culture and urban safety in Africa.
SSCC is pleased to announce the start of its biggest and most ambitious project on Cultural Diplomacy. Twenty-one academic and other institutions have joined this programme which is led by SSCC and Academia Dimitri, SUPSI (The University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland), and shortly, also, by the University of Salento in Italy.
Le applicazioni della realtà aumentata nelle arti visive e nella poesiaMinistry of Education
The document discusses using augmented reality in visual arts and poetry. It describes how mobile devices and augmented reality can be used to navigate cities and observe different layers of reality. Emotional journeys with augmented reality engaged citizens and visitors with local heritage and art. The document outlines several augmented reality art projects in Italian cities between 2011-2012, including evaluations that found social, creative thinking, emotional and territorial benefits. It concludes by discussing the "performative absolute" and role of augmented reality in creating collective rituals and rebuilding social bonds after disaster.
Boston Civic Media Projects from Consortium AffiliatesBecky Michelson
These are some of the projects created by faculty from the Boston Civic Media Consortium and Network. The mission of the Boston CMC+N is to build relationships, share knowledge and develop innovative curriculum in civic media. This is a faculty-led initiative that links ten higher education institutions and numerous community partner organizations across the Greater Boston region. This initiative is organized by the Emerson Engagement Lab and funded by the Teagle Foundation.
The broader Boston Civic Media Network includes practitioners, students, nonprofits and government leaders. We want to work towards building a strong, collaborative network of engaged research and teaching across the Boston area.
In times of the obsession with profit and growth, natural and social
resources are exploited in all corners of the world. Yet, the urge
to radically rethink the system sneaked into various levels. Many
creative and forward-looking professionals are actively searching
for new spaces of opportunity, to shape and test new modes of
economic production and responsible social fabric. Rural areas
have become relevant places for experimentation - smaller in size,
providing more time and space, with less hierarchical governance
structures.
Contemporary performing arts in a rural context are an integral
part of that exercise of imagining a different future. Moreover,
contemporary art in rural areas have been nurturing and shaping
local narratives for ages. However, contemporary artistic practices
have gone almost unnoticed in many funding schemes - both
cultural programmes and rural development funds, which tend to
focus on economic assets of only a few sectors.
In the past few years, IETM has organised a sequence of sessions
and one entire meeting on the subject of art in rural areas. Some of
the brightest art professionals engaging with rurality have created
an AREA (art in rural areas) focus group within our network
and continued their exchange during IETM events and beyond.
Through the dialogue within that group and with other members
experienced and interested in the topic, we have discovered a
fascinating, vibrant and powerful world of contemporary arts in
rural areas.
Today, more than ever, we want to turn the global attention to that
hugely important world.
When creating this publication, we realised it is urgent to find
unconventional approaches to the arts in rural areas. We need
to identify innovative solutions to support the rural arts in their
endeavour of working transversally with other sectors. We have
to seize the momentum and potential of rural arts to help reinvent
the system. Today, when our planet needs it the most.
We hope the present publication sets a strong and fertile ground
for reflecting on those ambitions. Please get in touch with us
(ietm@ietm.org) or write us on our forum (www.ietm.org/forums)
if you wish to further the debate.
We are very grateful to the three authors for their insightful and
sincere contributions. We also heartily thank our members and
other art professionals who shared their practices, stories, views
and experiences with us - through the ongoing exchange during
IETM meetings and via the open call we announced in July - August
2019. Some of the cases collected through the call are presented
in the annexes.
The publication “Arts in Rural Areas” is part of a collaborative
trajectory, which embraces three other European cultural
networks - Culture Action Europe, European Network of Cultural
Centres, and Trans Europe Halles. The policy paper “Beyond the
urban”, which you can read below, is the product of our joint work.
It is still in progress and subject to comments and suggestions
for improvement. We will pre
This document proposes a research study on othering contemporary art in Uganda. It begins with an introduction to the topic and background information on art education in Uganda. The research problem outlined is that Uganda's secondary school curriculum focuses primarily on Western art forms and artists from one institution, marginalizing other art. The objectives are to investigate other art fields, understand other artists' contributions, and analyze othering in institutions and among artists. The study will focus on other art forms practiced by select urban artists. The significance is to guide curriculum development, create awareness of other art, and motivate other artists to document their work. Limitations include a lack of distinction between fine art and craft, a small survey population, and limited data and literature on other
Piegare la tecnologia alla creatività. Superfici specchianti, gesti, forme e linguaggi non scontati. Le narrazioni della realtà aumentata, dal 31/05 al 2/06/2013.
Arte quantistica e realtà aumentata: verso orizzonti di ben-essere. CASCIANA TERME (Pisa).
This document outlines the Playing Identities - Performing Heritage project. The project will involve young artists from different European countries working together to produce "creole" theatrical performances. The performances will explore and negotiate cultural heritage and identities. The project involves selecting young theatre makers, four artistic fieldworks in different countries, creative residencies to develop the performances, and a final performance cycle in Siena, Italy. The goal is for theatre to facilitate sharing cultural knowledge and triggering social innovation through performing heritage in an inclusive way.
A Study of Awareness of Cultural Heritage: Sivas Sampleinventionjournals
This study analyzed university students' awareness of cultural heritage in Sivas, Turkey. Researchers conducted surveys and focus groups with over 1,000 students. They found students had low levels of awareness across different cultural assets, particularly activities like festivals, intangible heritage like folk songs, and local minstrels. The study aimed to understand reasons for low awareness and develop suggestions to improve students' knowledge and engagement with Sivas's cultural heritage. Focus groups with students and tourism representatives provided input on raising cultural heritage awareness.
The Art of Cultural Exchange / The Art of Cultural Exchange is a binational project coordinated by Professor Paul Heritage/Queen Mary University of London, and as a collaborator Researcher Professor Ilana Strozenberg/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
This document discusses digital ethnography and virtual worlds. It provides context on traditional ethnography and how it involves living among a culture to study and understand them. Digital ethnography applies this process using new technologies. The document then discusses an Afghan Virtual Museum created in Second Life. It explores the artwork in the museum, interviews the creator, and analyzes the benefits of creating art in virtual worlds compared to the real world. The creator enjoys the opportunities for international collaboration, creative forms of expression, and using art to raise awareness for causes. Virtual worlds allow immersive experiences and more creative possibilities than physical art.
Exploring the Playfulness of Places: A Case Study of Sydney, AustraliaKyle Moore
‘Exploring the Playfulness of Places: A Case Study of Sydney, Australia’ presented at Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, The University of Sydney, 14-17 December, 2016.
Sublime Galleria Presents Performance/Interactive Art at The Collection, UB Citymarching_ants
Sublime Galleria showcased performances and interactive art from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology at The Collection in UB City. Several exhibits were featured for one evening only, attracting many art enthusiasts. A major attraction was the 'Tate: Global Art Space' exhibit, which was a collaboration between Indian and international artists. The exhibits included "Dynamic Geometries", "Performing Systems", "Story of Light", and "Sonic Beams". The director of Sublime Galleria praised Srishti School for their innovative art forms and supporting new artists.
Engaging the mundane the art of jerry buhari, kuti usmanAlexander Decker
This document discusses the works of four Nigerian artists - Jerry Buhari, Kuti Usman, Uche Onyishi, and George Osodi - who explore environmental issues through their art. The artists were influenced by experimentation in Nigerian art schools and studios. Their works address topics like environmental degradation, oil spills, deforestation, and global warming. They use various media like painting, installation, and photography to raise awareness about human impacts on the environment and natural resource exploitation.
The document summarizes information about various community heritage initiatives around Europe, including a neighborhood museum in Delhi that tells the stories of local residents, an arts festival in Rotterdam, and a working group discussing dissonant 20th century heritage. It also provides updates on World Heritage Volunteers, the Urban Agenda for the EU, a social laboratory in Cordoba revitalizing historic neighborhoods, and the first Italian Faro Network annual meeting in Rome.
FutureEverything - The City as Living Lab or Play SpaceDrew Hemment
My keynote presentation at Metropolis Lab in Copenhagen on 28 June on the FutureEverything festival as a living lab, an approach developed in collaboration with ImaginationLancaster.
This is a ppt from my recent talk to an international group of professionals Black Sea and Balkan Regions on Culture and Sustainable Development hosted by the Ministry of Culture of Bulgaria.
The presentation is interactive based on personal research multiple sources. It is meant to be moderated and leading from general to some more specific insights on sustainable networks in culture.
Core message - networks are essential for business, policy makers, creators because they maintain the innovation drive and the cross-over and spill-over effects. In particular the engagemnet of public and users in designing together policies, practices, production and distribution are the focus of regional COOPERATION.
Dr. Sara Diamond, President and Vice-Chancellor OCAD University. This talk will provide a case study of a six year path of change and adaptation on the part of Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) University – a 135 year old institution. OCAD University is located in Toronto, the largest city in Canada in the downtown core, adjacent to the Art Gallery of Ontario.
This document provides an overview of the interactive documentary field, outlining its key stages of development. It discusses the genre's origins in precedents from earlier eras, the experimentation period of the 1990s-2000s, and its consolidation in the 2000s. The document also examines examples of interactive documentaries from each stage, related technologies, major producers, and software used. It aims to chart the evolution of the genre and situate specific works within the field's historical development.
Alessandro Carboni is choreographer, performer and researcher whose projects explore the complex relationships between body, map and city. His works are mappings that represent places that reshapes and weaves according to different stages stimulated by specific urban contingencies. The materials and collected data, produced during the long periods of work in selected urban areas, are accumulated in an archive that is transformed into visual works and body performance. Alessandro Carboni’s projects have been displayed, performed and situated in many countries across the world. As a committed teacher, he has been lecturing about his findings at numerous distinguished academic and nonacademic institutions. He holds a PhD in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong. Based in Sardinia, he is currently working as an independent artist.
This document is a research proposal submitted by Aya Constance to investigate othering of contemporary visual art in Ugandan secondary schools. It provides background on art education in Uganda and how the curriculum focuses primarily on Western art styles taught at the Margaret Trowell School of Art. This has led to other creative art forms practiced in communities to be marginalized or "othered". The study aims to highlight these other art fields like graffiti, tattooing and facial painting, and how they contribute to Uganda's art sector. It will investigate the perspectives of other artists and how accepting diverse art styles can promote creativity and cultural identity in art education. The literature review discusses how art curricula can be expanded to incorporate more freedom of
This document is a research proposal submitted by Aya Constance to investigate othering of contemporary visual art in Ugandan secondary schools. It provides background on art education in Uganda and how the curriculum focuses primarily on Western art styles taught at the Margaret Trowell School of Art. This has led to other creative art forms practiced in communities to be marginalized or "othered". The study aims to highlight these other art fields like graffiti, tattooing and facial painting, and how they contribute to Uganda's art sector. It will investigate the perspectives of other artists and how accepting diverse art styles in education can promote creativity and uniqueness. The literature review discusses how art curricula focus on Western norms and need to incorporate freedom of
Pensa-OS-ADM Open Science for arts, design and music at HES-SOIolanda Pensa
Iolanda Pensa, Le partage des données dans les domaines artistiques in Open research data: pratiques et défis pour les domaines artistiques Design et Arts visuels Musique et Arts de la scène, HES-SO, online 16/05/2024, CC BY 4.0.
In times of the obsession with profit and growth, natural and social
resources are exploited in all corners of the world. Yet, the urge
to radically rethink the system sneaked into various levels. Many
creative and forward-looking professionals are actively searching
for new spaces of opportunity, to shape and test new modes of
economic production and responsible social fabric. Rural areas
have become relevant places for experimentation - smaller in size,
providing more time and space, with less hierarchical governance
structures.
Contemporary performing arts in a rural context are an integral
part of that exercise of imagining a different future. Moreover,
contemporary art in rural areas have been nurturing and shaping
local narratives for ages. However, contemporary artistic practices
have gone almost unnoticed in many funding schemes - both
cultural programmes and rural development funds, which tend to
focus on economic assets of only a few sectors.
In the past few years, IETM has organised a sequence of sessions
and one entire meeting on the subject of art in rural areas. Some of
the brightest art professionals engaging with rurality have created
an AREA (art in rural areas) focus group within our network
and continued their exchange during IETM events and beyond.
Through the dialogue within that group and with other members
experienced and interested in the topic, we have discovered a
fascinating, vibrant and powerful world of contemporary arts in
rural areas.
Today, more than ever, we want to turn the global attention to that
hugely important world.
When creating this publication, we realised it is urgent to find
unconventional approaches to the arts in rural areas. We need
to identify innovative solutions to support the rural arts in their
endeavour of working transversally with other sectors. We have
to seize the momentum and potential of rural arts to help reinvent
the system. Today, when our planet needs it the most.
We hope the present publication sets a strong and fertile ground
for reflecting on those ambitions. Please get in touch with us
(ietm@ietm.org) or write us on our forum (www.ietm.org/forums)
if you wish to further the debate.
We are very grateful to the three authors for their insightful and
sincere contributions. We also heartily thank our members and
other art professionals who shared their practices, stories, views
and experiences with us - through the ongoing exchange during
IETM meetings and via the open call we announced in July - August
2019. Some of the cases collected through the call are presented
in the annexes.
The publication “Arts in Rural Areas” is part of a collaborative
trajectory, which embraces three other European cultural
networks - Culture Action Europe, European Network of Cultural
Centres, and Trans Europe Halles. The policy paper “Beyond the
urban”, which you can read below, is the product of our joint work.
It is still in progress and subject to comments and suggestions
for improvement. We will pre
This document proposes a research study on othering contemporary art in Uganda. It begins with an introduction to the topic and background information on art education in Uganda. The research problem outlined is that Uganda's secondary school curriculum focuses primarily on Western art forms and artists from one institution, marginalizing other art. The objectives are to investigate other art fields, understand other artists' contributions, and analyze othering in institutions and among artists. The study will focus on other art forms practiced by select urban artists. The significance is to guide curriculum development, create awareness of other art, and motivate other artists to document their work. Limitations include a lack of distinction between fine art and craft, a small survey population, and limited data and literature on other
Piegare la tecnologia alla creatività. Superfici specchianti, gesti, forme e linguaggi non scontati. Le narrazioni della realtà aumentata, dal 31/05 al 2/06/2013.
Arte quantistica e realtà aumentata: verso orizzonti di ben-essere. CASCIANA TERME (Pisa).
This document outlines the Playing Identities - Performing Heritage project. The project will involve young artists from different European countries working together to produce "creole" theatrical performances. The performances will explore and negotiate cultural heritage and identities. The project involves selecting young theatre makers, four artistic fieldworks in different countries, creative residencies to develop the performances, and a final performance cycle in Siena, Italy. The goal is for theatre to facilitate sharing cultural knowledge and triggering social innovation through performing heritage in an inclusive way.
A Study of Awareness of Cultural Heritage: Sivas Sampleinventionjournals
This study analyzed university students' awareness of cultural heritage in Sivas, Turkey. Researchers conducted surveys and focus groups with over 1,000 students. They found students had low levels of awareness across different cultural assets, particularly activities like festivals, intangible heritage like folk songs, and local minstrels. The study aimed to understand reasons for low awareness and develop suggestions to improve students' knowledge and engagement with Sivas's cultural heritage. Focus groups with students and tourism representatives provided input on raising cultural heritage awareness.
The Art of Cultural Exchange / The Art of Cultural Exchange is a binational project coordinated by Professor Paul Heritage/Queen Mary University of London, and as a collaborator Researcher Professor Ilana Strozenberg/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
This document discusses digital ethnography and virtual worlds. It provides context on traditional ethnography and how it involves living among a culture to study and understand them. Digital ethnography applies this process using new technologies. The document then discusses an Afghan Virtual Museum created in Second Life. It explores the artwork in the museum, interviews the creator, and analyzes the benefits of creating art in virtual worlds compared to the real world. The creator enjoys the opportunities for international collaboration, creative forms of expression, and using art to raise awareness for causes. Virtual worlds allow immersive experiences and more creative possibilities than physical art.
Exploring the Playfulness of Places: A Case Study of Sydney, AustraliaKyle Moore
‘Exploring the Playfulness of Places: A Case Study of Sydney, Australia’ presented at Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, The University of Sydney, 14-17 December, 2016.
Sublime Galleria Presents Performance/Interactive Art at The Collection, UB Citymarching_ants
Sublime Galleria showcased performances and interactive art from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology at The Collection in UB City. Several exhibits were featured for one evening only, attracting many art enthusiasts. A major attraction was the 'Tate: Global Art Space' exhibit, which was a collaboration between Indian and international artists. The exhibits included "Dynamic Geometries", "Performing Systems", "Story of Light", and "Sonic Beams". The director of Sublime Galleria praised Srishti School for their innovative art forms and supporting new artists.
Engaging the mundane the art of jerry buhari, kuti usmanAlexander Decker
This document discusses the works of four Nigerian artists - Jerry Buhari, Kuti Usman, Uche Onyishi, and George Osodi - who explore environmental issues through their art. The artists were influenced by experimentation in Nigerian art schools and studios. Their works address topics like environmental degradation, oil spills, deforestation, and global warming. They use various media like painting, installation, and photography to raise awareness about human impacts on the environment and natural resource exploitation.
The document summarizes information about various community heritage initiatives around Europe, including a neighborhood museum in Delhi that tells the stories of local residents, an arts festival in Rotterdam, and a working group discussing dissonant 20th century heritage. It also provides updates on World Heritage Volunteers, the Urban Agenda for the EU, a social laboratory in Cordoba revitalizing historic neighborhoods, and the first Italian Faro Network annual meeting in Rome.
FutureEverything - The City as Living Lab or Play SpaceDrew Hemment
My keynote presentation at Metropolis Lab in Copenhagen on 28 June on the FutureEverything festival as a living lab, an approach developed in collaboration with ImaginationLancaster.
This is a ppt from my recent talk to an international group of professionals Black Sea and Balkan Regions on Culture and Sustainable Development hosted by the Ministry of Culture of Bulgaria.
The presentation is interactive based on personal research multiple sources. It is meant to be moderated and leading from general to some more specific insights on sustainable networks in culture.
Core message - networks are essential for business, policy makers, creators because they maintain the innovation drive and the cross-over and spill-over effects. In particular the engagemnet of public and users in designing together policies, practices, production and distribution are the focus of regional COOPERATION.
Dr. Sara Diamond, President and Vice-Chancellor OCAD University. This talk will provide a case study of a six year path of change and adaptation on the part of Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) University – a 135 year old institution. OCAD University is located in Toronto, the largest city in Canada in the downtown core, adjacent to the Art Gallery of Ontario.
This document provides an overview of the interactive documentary field, outlining its key stages of development. It discusses the genre's origins in precedents from earlier eras, the experimentation period of the 1990s-2000s, and its consolidation in the 2000s. The document also examines examples of interactive documentaries from each stage, related technologies, major producers, and software used. It aims to chart the evolution of the genre and situate specific works within the field's historical development.
Alessandro Carboni is choreographer, performer and researcher whose projects explore the complex relationships between body, map and city. His works are mappings that represent places that reshapes and weaves according to different stages stimulated by specific urban contingencies. The materials and collected data, produced during the long periods of work in selected urban areas, are accumulated in an archive that is transformed into visual works and body performance. Alessandro Carboni’s projects have been displayed, performed and situated in many countries across the world. As a committed teacher, he has been lecturing about his findings at numerous distinguished academic and nonacademic institutions. He holds a PhD in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong. Based in Sardinia, he is currently working as an independent artist.
This document is a research proposal submitted by Aya Constance to investigate othering of contemporary visual art in Ugandan secondary schools. It provides background on art education in Uganda and how the curriculum focuses primarily on Western art styles taught at the Margaret Trowell School of Art. This has led to other creative art forms practiced in communities to be marginalized or "othered". The study aims to highlight these other art fields like graffiti, tattooing and facial painting, and how they contribute to Uganda's art sector. It will investigate the perspectives of other artists and how accepting diverse art styles can promote creativity and cultural identity in art education. The literature review discusses how art curricula can be expanded to incorporate more freedom of
This document is a research proposal submitted by Aya Constance to investigate othering of contemporary visual art in Ugandan secondary schools. It provides background on art education in Uganda and how the curriculum focuses primarily on Western art styles taught at the Margaret Trowell School of Art. This has led to other creative art forms practiced in communities to be marginalized or "othered". The study aims to highlight these other art fields like graffiti, tattooing and facial painting, and how they contribute to Uganda's art sector. It will investigate the perspectives of other artists and how accepting diverse art styles in education can promote creativity and uniqueness. The literature review discusses how art curricula focus on Western norms and need to incorporate freedom of
Pensa-OS-ADM Open Science for arts, design and music at HES-SOIolanda Pensa
Iolanda Pensa, Le partage des données dans les domaines artistiques in Open research data: pratiques et défis pour les domaines artistiques Design et Arts visuels Musique et Arts de la scène, HES-SO, online 16/05/2024, CC BY 4.0.
Open access, Creative Commons e Wikipedia per le istituzioni culturaliIolanda Pensa
Iolanda Pensa, Open access, Creative Commons e Wikipedia per le istituzioni culturali, within the webinar programme "Conversioni" curated by Eleonora Pantò and organised by "Sapere digitale" directed by Augursta Giovannoni, online, 26/03/2024.
Open access, Creative Commons e Wikipedia per le istituzioni culturali
Sempre più musei, archivi e biblioteche nel mondo aprono i loro contenuti a vantaggio dei cittadini, rendendo disponibili le riproduzioni digitali delle loro collezioni in pubblico dominio e rilasciando la loro produzione di ricerca e materiali educativi con licenze libere. Questa presentazione raconta il progetto Empowering Italian GLAMs che ha invitato nel 2022-2024 tutti i musei italiani nell’adottare l’open access e mostra una serie di visualizzazioni che permettono di osservare il patrimonio e le istituzioni culturali italiane sui progetti Wikimedia e in particolare su Wikidata e Wikimedia Commons.
Iolanda Pensa, Wikimedia projects and OpenStreetMap as an Open Research Infrastructure, 03 February 2024, FOSDEM, Bruxelles, CC BY-SA 4.0
The Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap projects are an existing free software infrastructure that already produces citizen science and can be used by researchers to share and co-produce data and to produce - and reproduce - the results of research. The presentation specifically refers to the potential of data related to cultural heritage for studies in the humanities and in particular in museology, art, art history and history of architecture.
Pensa GLAM Wiki Conference - Empowering GLAMsIolanda Pensa
Iolanda Pensa, 100'000 institutions on the Wikimedia projects: A strategy to activate in a simple way all the institutions around the world, pre-recorded contribution to the conference GLAM Wiki Conference 2023, Uruguay, 10/11/2023.
Iolanda Pensa, OS-ADM Open Science for Arts Design and Music for swissuniversities 2023. OA Panel on Insights and Learnings Based on the Intermediary Reviews: Projects OA Calls 211, 212 and 221, swissuniversities, online, 17/10/2023.
This document discusses various efforts to rewrite and improve access to history and knowledge through open collaboration on Wikipedia and related projects. It mentions initiatives like Wikipedia Primary School, which aims to provide information to complete primary education curriculums on Wikipedia. It also discusses the importance of using open licenses to enable collaboration and ensuring content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects is freely reusable and editable by all. Overall, the document advocates for more contributions of content and translations from diverse communities and institutions to make knowledge on Wikipedia as inclusive and accessible as possible.
The document discusses several resources related to provenance research, decolonization of museums, and the restitution of cultural artifacts. It provides links to websites about the definition of museums, a French government report on returning African cultural heritage, digital collections from Benin and West Africa, and international resources on Holocaust-era provenance research. It also links to pages on indigenous rights, care of collections, and decolonizing knowledge. The photos depict artworks and exhibitions related to issues of cultural heritage, colonialism, and repatriation.
The participation at future Wikimania. Iolanda Pensa (introduction and moderator) with Phoebe Ayers, Gnangarra, Martin Rulsch and Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz, Wikimania Singapore, 19/08/2023, CC BY-SA 4.0.
100,000 institutions on the Wikimedia projectsIolanda Pensa
Pensa, Iolanda. 100,000 institutions on the Wikimedia projects. A new strategy to activate in a simple way all the institutions around the world, Wikimania Singapore, 18/08/2023, CC BY-SA 4.0. Presentation with the participation of Dario Crespi.
Pensa-Open Access e comunicazione istituzionale.pdfIolanda Pensa
Iolanda Pensa. (2023, May 17). Open access e comunicazione istituzionale. Open Science for Arts Design and Music (OS-ADM), SUPSI Mendrisio. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7944427
Iolanda Pensa, Wikipedia, Festival della luceIolanda Pensa
Iolanda Pensa, Wikipedia in Enciclopedie e cultura scientifica. La luce della conoscenza, Festival della Luce, Biblioteca Comunale “P. Borsellino”, Como 05/05/2023.
Con 20 miliardi di visualizzazioni al mese, oltre 300 versioni linguistiche e una comunità di migliaia di contributori, Wikipedia è sicuramente la più grande e più consultata enciclopedia della storia, ed è anche la prima ad avere un tasto “modifica” e una licenza libera. Nessuno avrebbe mai immaginato che un’enciclopedia aperta alla modifica di chiunque, gratuita e senza pubblicità, e rilasciata con licenza libera sarebbe sopravvissuta e cresciuta, ma dopo più di 20 anni di storia Wikipedia dimostra che un progetto così visionario - oggi accompagnato da strumenti altrettanto potenti come la banca dati Wikidata - è in realtà possibile e sostenuto nel mondo da persone e istituzioni.
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Iolanda Pensa - Ça reveille
1. Titolo principale della presentazione
Ça reveille
SUPSI, 18 ottobre 2018
Nell’ambito del seminario “Sviluppi socioculturali del lavoro sociale”
Dr. Iolanda Pensa, Ph.D. Ricercatore senior Laboratorio cultura visiva,
Dipartimento ambiente costruzioni design, SUPSI.
9. Douala Camerun - ricerche dal 2003
Dakar Senegal - ricerche dal 1998
Consulente a Cape Town Sudafrica 2004-2005
Volontario su Wikipedia dal 2006
CH - Ricercatore SUSPI (dal 2013)
Il Cairo
USA ricerche sugli enti finanziatori
Teheran
Minsk
Siberia
Rotterdam NL - Fondatore iStrike Foundation (2005-2007)
Volontario a Esino Lario - Dal 2003 Archivio Pietro Pensa/Ecomuseo delle Grigne/Wikimania
Milano - Direttore scientifico Fondazione lettera27 ora Fondazione Moleskine (2006-2012)
Estremo oriente russo
Tunisi
Nata a Ginevra nel 1975.Vivo a Milano. Svizzera e italiana.
Collaboratore e critico d’arte per riviste dal 2001
Milano - Laurea in lettere moderne indirizzo storia dell'arte medievale con tesi in arte contemporanea sulla Biennale di Dakar - Università Cattolica
Dottorato di ricerca in antropologia sociale ed etnologia alla EHESS di Parigi e in governo e progettazione del territorio al Politecnico di Milano
Diploma di scuola superiore
CapistranoValley High School USA
Volontariato europeo a Cambridge UK
18. Context Objective Activities
Calendar
Budget
Expected results
Problem solving
Intercultural dialogue
Cultural industries
Active citizenships
Freedom of expression
Participation
Public Engagement
Infrastructures
Development
Quantitative
Qualitative
Metrics
Number of people
Coherence with the expected results
Structure of a project.
Evaluation
Biennial = 2 years
Triennial = 3 years
Research and experimentation?
Culture
Value
19. Bessengue, Douala. Photo Sandrine Dole, 2002, cc by-sa.
Analisi dei bisogni (strategia standard)
37. THE PROJECT RESEARCH TEAM RESEARCH FINDINGS
The research “Mobile A2K: Culture and Safety in Africa. Documenting
and assessing the impact of cultural events and public art on urban
safety” is an applied research with an interdisciplinary and comparative
approach, conceived to document and assess the impact of cultural
events and public art on urban safety in relationship with the Millennium
Development Goal 7d (“By 2020, to have achieved a significant
improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers”).
More specifically the research aimed at:
1. Documenting and mapping cultural events and public art produced
between 1991 and 2013 in the cities of Douala, Luanda and
Johannesburg and making this documentation accessible through
ICT.
2. Assessing the impact of cultural events and public art on urban
safety by exploring a series of case studies and compare them.
Research question. How cultural events and public art affect urban
safety in African cities? Can we assess these changes as positive
according to a group of factors?
Hypothesis. The arts are a space for experimentation and research,
not directly connected to urban safety, but capable of triggering
unforeseen ways of producing higher livability, civil cohabitation and
social cohesion.
According to its objectives, the research has documented and mapped
cultural events and public art in Douala, Luanda and Johannesburg
between 1991 and 2013, and – through case studies (with maps and
qualitative and quantitative interviews) – it has analyzed the impact of
those cultural events and public art on urban safety.
mobileA2K.org - April 2014
The research team was composed of scholars in the fields of arts,
communication, design, architecture, anthropology and sociology, and
with representatives of institutions working in the three cities at the
centre of our analysis.
The research was coordinated by the University of Applied Sciences
and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), conceived and supported by
lettera27 Foundation, co-funded by the Swiss Network for International
Studies (SNIS) and implemented in partnership with the African Center
for Cities at the University of Cape Town, Chimurenga, doual’art, Ecole
Cantonale d'Art du Valais (ECAV), École Nationale Supérieure des
Télécommunications, Fundação Sindika Dokolo, Latitude, NewMinE at
University of Lugano, University Iuav of Venice.
Davide Fornari (coordinator), Iolanda Pensa (curator), Fernando Alvim,
Alfred Anangwe, Emanuela Fanny Bonini Lessing, Serena Cangiano,
Lorenzo Cantoni, Marilyn Douala Bell, Ntone Edjabe, Ismail Farouk,
Aude Guyot, Inge M. Ruigrok, Sylvie Kandé, Federica Martini, Luca
Morici, Simon Njami, Edgar Arthur PieterseMarta Pucciarelli, Isabella
Rega, Didier Schaub, Andy Spitz, Fabio Vanin, Caroline Wanjiku
Kihato.
What emerges from the comparative analysis of the research findings:
1. The space of experimentation and research of the arts is much
more limited than we expected. The arts are limited by a series
internal and external of factors (selection, location of the artwork,
technical aspects of the production, frame of the concept, role of the
clients, maintenance of the work and assessment of artistic quality).
More than any other art production, the outdoor nature and the size
of cultural event and public art are influenced by those limitations.
2. By looking at the positive and negative impact of cultural events and
public art on urban safety what it emerges is that there is not only
an indirect impact, but also direct one (positive and negative), in
particular through the production of forced evictions and
infrastructural artworks.
3. By observing the different typologies of artworks produced in the
cities at the centre of our analysis, the research highlighted four
different type of productions which appear to have recurrent
characteristics and fall-outs: proximity artworks, artworks in
passageways, large-scale sculptures and monuments and urban-
scale artworks and cultural events.
4. Land ownership and negotiation plays a determinate role on the
impact of cultural events and public art on urban safety. The
process engaged in producing cultural events and public art can
support community-building, it can reinforce sense of ownership, it
can trigger individual and group actions in maintaining and
improving a shared space and it can produce restoration and
repurpose of sites. At the same time the production of cultural
events and public art can lead to forced evictions, vandalism and
conflicts. The process and who is involved in the process is a direct
consequence of land ownership and negotiation.
MOBILE A2K Culture and Safety in Africa
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FUNDAÇÃO SINDIKA DOKOLO | TRIENAL DE LUANDA _ ESPAÇOS
CORREIOS
38. Lucas Grandin, Le jardin sonore de Bonamouti, Douala, 2010, cc by-sa.
39. L’opera studiata nell’ambito della ricerca Culture and Safety in Africa. Lucas Grandin, Le jardin sonore de Bonamouti, Douala, 2010, cc by-sa.
44. Writing an article on Wikipedia. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, ShareYour Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.
45. Correcting a mistake on Wikipedia. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, ShareYour Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.
46. Adding text to an article on Wikipedia. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, ShareYour Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.
50. WikiAfrica/ShareYour Knowledge 2012. Iolanda Pensa, status report with mistakes, 2013, CC by-sa. Status http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Case_studies/WikiAfrica/Share_Your_Knowledge/Institutions
Event: conference/training/workshop
Research
Archives
Wiki Loves Monuments
Notebooks (Detour, myDetour,WikiAfrica special editions)
Presentations and events
Creative Commons affiliate
Orange and Orange Foundation (free Wikipedia on mobile phones)
Brooklyn Museum
Feed My Starving Children
International Institute for
Communication and Development
Sustainable Sanitation Alliance
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
AfricaFilms.tv
Western Province Government – Department of museums - 28
museums in Western Cape Province, South Africa, Bartolomeu Dias
Museum, Beaufort-West Museum, Caledon Museum, Cango Caves
Museum, Cape Medical Museum, CP Nel Museum, Drostdy Museum,
Fransie Pienaar Museum, Genadendal Mission Museum, George
Museum, Groot-Brakrivier Museum, Hout Bay Museum, Huguenot
Memorial Museum, Jan Dankaert Museum, Koopmans De Wet House
Museum, Montagu Museum, Old Harbour Museum, Paarl Museum,
Robertson Museum, SA Fisheries Museum,
Sendinggestig(Missionary)Museum, Shipwreck Museum, Simon's Town
Museum, Stellenbosch Museum, Transport Riders Museum, Wellington
Museum, Wheat Industry Museum, Worcester Museum
Gambia National Museum
Sungani Zakwathu Cultural Heritage Promotions
Postal Museum, Matengatenga, Malawi
Zanzibar National Museum
Phuthidikabo Museum,
Mochudi, BotswanaSeychelles People Defense
Forces Museum (SPDF)
Uganda National Museum
Dataset of administrations in Botswana
52. The windmills of Kinderdijk,The Netherlands,Author:Tarod,Wikimedia Commons, 2012, cc by-sa.
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.Author:Thaler – Tamás Thaler,Wikimedia Commons, 2013, cc by-sa.
Monastery and chateau in Zbraslav, Prague, Czech Republic.Author: Zdeněk Fiedler,Wikimedia Commons, 2013, cc by-sa.
Baptistery of St. Peter, San Pietro in Consavia church,Asti, Italy.Author: Marco Odina,Wikimedia Commons, 2012, cc by-sa.
53. Winning images of Wiki Loves Monuments 2013.Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa.
54. Caricare le foto Un sapere migliore per tutti
anche per scopi commerciali
Mettere la foto di un monumento su Wikipedia con la licenza Creative Commons attribuzione condividi allo stesso modo, anche per uso commerciale.
55. Cosa significa in Italia mettere la foto di un monumento su Wikipedia con la licenza Creative Commons attribuzione condividi allo stesso modo, anche per uso commerciale.
Autorizzazione del
proprietario
Lista dei monumenti
Georeferenziazione
del monumento
(Autorizzazione
dell’autore)
(Autorizzazione della
soprintendenza)
Un sapere migliore per tutti
anche per scopi commerciali
Caricare le foto
56. Condividi anche
le tue foto
Un sapere migliore per tutti
anche per scopi commerciali
Caricare le foto
Come aiutare in Italia a mettere la foto di un monumento su Wikipedia con la licenza Creative Commons attribuzione condividi allo stesso modo, anche per uso commerciale.
Autorizzazione del
proprietario
Lista dei monumenti
Georeferenziazione
del monumento
(Autorizzazione
dell’autore)
(Autorizzazione della
soprintendenza)
Cambiare la legge (o emettere una circolare):
Permettere l’uso commerciale delle immagini dei beni culturali!
57. Il paesaggio culturale alpino su Wikipedia. Progetto Italia-Svizzera. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Alps_on_Wikipedia
58.
59. Dal 2006 licenza libera compatibile con Wikipedia e documentazione storica e contemporanea caricata su Wikimedia Commons alla massima risoluzione.
61. 2006 Harvard University
2012 George Washington
University
2009 Centro Cultural San
Martín, Buenos Aires
2015 Hilton,
Mexico City
2008 Bibliotheca
Alexandrina, Egypt
2011 Haifa Auditorium
Complex, Israel
2013 Hong Kong
Polytechnic University
2007Youth CenterTaipei
2016The entire village of Esino Lario,
Lake Como area, Italy
2014 Barbican Centre in
London
2010 Polish Baltic
Philharmonic, Gdańsk
2005Youth Hostel
Frankfurt, Germany
2018 CapeTown
2017 Montréal
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Villa Clotilde
Primary school
Multimedia room museum Bar restaurant 58 Theatre of the Kindergarten Former Hotel Italia
Bar restaurant Oasi
Bar restaurant Centrale
Meeting
Bar restaurant Montanina
Collaborative space
City hall
Montecodeno
Former cinema
Bar La sosta
Sport Hall
MeetupsPanels Support
Activating community, resources and knowledge of a territory.
74. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School - April 2014
WIKIPEDIA PRIMARY SCHOOL
Providing on Wikipedia the information necessary to complete the cycle of primary
education in the languages used by the different education systems.
RESEARCH PROBLEM
The research is developed within a Swiss-South African
cooperation lead by the University of Applied Sciences and Arts
of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) and the University of Cape
Town, in partnership with Wikimedia Switzerland and the Africa
Centre based in Cape Town, and with the support of SNF and
the South African National Research Foundation (NRF).!
Iolanda Pensa (principal investigator Switzerland), Tobias
Schönwetter (principal investigator South Africa), Luca Botturi,
Davide Fornari, Giancarlo Gianocca, Isla Haddow-Flood, Erica
Litrenta, Giovanni Profeta, Kelsey Wiens.
Wikipedia is meant to be an educational tool and it is currently
available online, via mobile phones and offline. Experiences
have shown that, once accessible, Wikipedia does not provide
information that responds directly to curriculum-based questions.
The project relies on Wikipedia as an existing and growing
resource, it solves the need for an encyclopedia capable of
responding to curriculum-based questions, and it fosters
Wikipedia content, quality and outreach.
THE PROJECT RESEARCH TEAM
The research project developed within a Swiss-South African
cooperation (2014-2017) focuses on the theoretical frame of
Wikipedia Primary School and in developing and evaluating a
system to assess Wikipedia articles for primary education and to
involve a wide network of scholars and contributors in their
production. !
More specifically the project aims at:!
1. Bridging Wikipedia and primary education. This objective
implies to move the Wikipedia community towards a focus on
primary education, and at the same time to strengthen the
capacity of the education ecosystem to contribute to
Wikipedia, and in general to open collaborative knowledge.
2. Enriching Wikipedia with new content relevant to primary
education. This objective implies an assessment of the
articles produced.
3. Fostering the development of translations and new content in
different Wikipedia linguistic editions. This objective implies
the release of existing educational resources (OER in cc by
or cc by-sa), the production of datasets and the involvement
of the Wikimedia movement.
4. Verifying and evaluating the use of Wikipedia as a source of
information for primary education. This objective implies the
involvement of stakeholders and data analysis.
Wikipedia Primary School contributes to universal primary
education and to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG2:
Achieve Universal Primary Education). Even if it is scalable and
international, the project is conceived primarily to address African
countries and languages.
75. Wikipedia Primary School, visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa.
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