[Commlist] Seminar: Transforming cultural institutions and their users – Current Agendas in the Interdisciplinary Turn to Participation

TRANSFORMING CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR USERS

– Current Agendas in the Interdisciplinary Turn to Participation

Seminar at Aarhus University 10-11 April 2019

The seminar introduces, and offers a space for discussing, important 
current agendas for cultural institutions interested in participation. 
It begins with the premise that the present cultural, institutional and 
academic interest in participation often challenges traditional 
professional practices as well as distinctions like institution/citizen, 
professional/user, expert knowledge/lay experience and cultural 
sector/other sectors. In this way, the turn to new forms of 
participatory engagements also calls for interdisciplinary interaction 
and inspiration.

The seminar focuses specifically on three interdisciplinary topics: 1) 
Cultural institutions and local communities, 2) Participatory care and 
health in cultural institutions, 3) Users as experts/co-researchers.

The seminar will stimulate discussion through presentations of current 
research on participation from perspectives of community arts, health 
humanities, and sociology. We combine the presentations with workshops 
where cultural institutions from UK, Croatia and Denmark present and 
discuss their own participatory practices and projects dealing with 
local communities, care/health, and knowledge production/dissemination. 
The program includes time for networking and visits to local cultural 
institutions engaged in citizen participation.

Keynote speakers:

- François Matarasso: The normalization of participatory art: 
opportunities and threats

- Brian Brown: Health Humanities and Creative Assets

- Jennifer Gabrys: Sensing and Participating in Urban Air Pollution

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*Organization:*

Birgit Eriksson, Carsten Stage and Bjarki Valtysson from the Danish 
research network on cultural participation /Take Part/ 
http://projekter.au.dk/en/take-part/, in collaboration with Leila 
Jancovich from the British knowledge exchange network /Cultural 
Participation/ http://www.culturalparticipation.co.uk/, and Dea Vidović 
from the Croatian /Kultura Nova/ foundation http://kulturanova.hr/english.

The seminar is open for all but requires registration. More info about 
program, keynotes, registration etc. at 
https://events.au.dk/takepartseminar2019/about.html

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