Steps for planning community art projects.

2. MAIN TOPICS
•BACKGROUND – WHY ART-BASED METHODS?
•DIFFERENT TYPES OF METHODS
•SOCIO-CULTURAL ANIMATION (SCA)
•CULTURAL ANIMATION
•WHO BENEFITS FROM THE METHODS?
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3. BACKGROUND – WHY ART-BASED
METHODS?
• SOCIAL WORK IS CHANGING GLOBALLY: MARKET SECTOR – PUBLIC SECTOR
• PRIVATE SECTOR VALUES ARE INCREASING: COST-EFFICIENCY, QUANTIFIED, STANDARDISIZED AND
EVIDENCE-BASED PROCEDURES FOR SOCIAL WORKERS (NOT SO MUCH ROOM FOR CREATIVITY)
• ARTS CAN OFFER NEW WAYS OF WORKING WITH QUESTIONS SUCH AS POWER ISSUES, VULNERABILITY,
MARGINALIZATION AND OTHER CURRENT SOCIAL PROBLEMS
• ART ENAMBLES FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
• ENCOURAGE WESTERN SOCIAL WORKERS TO LEARN FROM OTHER COUNTRIES WHERE SOCIAL WELFARE
IS LESS FORMALLY ORGANIZED (SINDING & BARNES 2014)
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4. DIFFERENT TYPES OF METHODS (1)
• Making crats, painting,making craffiti
• Handicraft: sewing, knitting
Sports: football, basket ball, running, skiing, ice hockey
• Dance, zumba
• Jooga, meditation
Events
• Concerts, flee markets, theatre, drama
• Demonstrations, parades, restaurant day, cleaning day
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5. DIFFERENT TYPES OF METHODS (2)
Photograpy, film making
Nature: camping, hiking
Storytelling, theatre, drama
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6. DIFFERENT TYPES OF METHODS (3)
Barbeque (eating together)
Writing (poetry, rap songs)
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7. SOCIO-CULTURAL ANIMATION (SCA)
• ”DEFINITIONS OF SOCIOCULTURAL ANIMATION AS A SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT VARY FROM CONTEXT TO
CONTEXT IN DIFFERENT SOCIAL SCIENCES APPROACHES, IN TERMS OF ITS SPECIFICITY, IDENTITY, ROLE
AND FUNCTION” (MARRENGULA 2014)
• “ACTION AND THE EFFECT OF ANIMATING”; THE VERB “TO ANIMATE” WHICH MEANS “TO INFUSE THE
SOUL”, “TO INFUSE VALUE” (JAUME TRILLA 1997)
• THE TERM ANIMATION/ANIMACIÓN IS ROOTED IN THE LATIN WORD “ANIMA”, LIFE/SOUL, MEANING “TO
GIVE LIFE OR SPIRIT TO SOMETHING” (LEENA KURKI 2000)
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8. SOCIO-CULTURAL ANIMATION - THEORY
“AS A THEORETICAL APPROACH IS SEEN AS A
STRUGGLE FOR PEOPLE’S EMANCIPATION, AS A
PROCESS OF SOCIAL VALORISATION AND
STRENGTHENING OF DEMOCRACY IN WHICH
THE PARTICIPATION OF INDIVIDUALS
“(MARRENGULA 2014 CITING FREIRE 1983,
1988)
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9. CULTURAL ANIMATION
• CULTURAL ANIMATION WAS ORIGINALLY COINED BY POLISH CULTURAL THEORIST, GRZEGORZ
GODLEWSKI, AS “IDENTIFICATION, ACTIVATION, DYNAMISATION OF PARTICULAR SPHERE OF CULTURAL
EXPERIENCE.”
• CULTURAL ANIMATION FOCUSES SPECIFICALLY ON STORIES THAT PRESERVE CULTURE THROUGH
COMPUTER ANIMATION
• “THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO CULTURAL ANIMATION – THE TECHNICAL/DIGITAL SIDE AND THE SOCIO-
CULTURAL SIDE”
HTTP://SIOSISM.COM/CULTURAL-ANIMATION-DEFINITION/
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10. LINKS & LITERATURE (SOCIO-CULTURAL
ANIMATION)
• ADDRESSING SOCIO-CULTURAL ANIMATION AS COMMUNITY BASED SOCIAL WORK WITH STREET
CHILDREN IN MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE
HTTP://TAMPUB.UTA.FI/BITSTREAM/HANDLE/10024/66678/978-951-44-8269-4.PDF;SEQUENCE=1
HTTP://WWW.THESEUS.FI/BITSTREAM/HANDLE/10024/4679/SOCIOCULTURAL+ANIMATION+IN+YOUTH+
WORK.PDF;JSESSIONID=D40E5F42BD3CD529155DA514E2F023C3?SEQUENCE=1
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11. WHO BENEFITS FROM THE METHODS?
• ART AS ASOCIAL WORK METHOD: TO EXPRESS SELF-EXPRESSION OR TO CREATE COMMUNITY SPIRIT AND
TOGERTHERNESS?
• POSITION OF PEOPLE INVOLVED (SERVICE-USERS, RESIDENTS, CITIZENS)?
• CAN ART-BASED METHODS CREATE AWARENESS AND SOCIAL CHANGE?
• POSITION OF SOCIAL WORKERS: SELF-REFLECTIVE CRITICAL AWARENESS (EXPERIENCES OF
COLONIZATION, OPPRESSION, SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUND ETC.)
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