A Participatory Approach to Uniting the Multiple Agendas of Social Arts Translated title: 如何以参与性的方式结合社会艺术的多种目标

Abstract

Within rapid global social change and societies becoming ever more diverse, fluid, and divided, the social arts can contribute to maintaining a unified, tolerant, and coherent society. Social arts are often initiated by different stakeholders committed to health, therapy, political action, and/or social change. These are hard to typify and characterize and thus hard to evaluate. This article presents an overview of multiple theories and perspectives in the social arts and suggests how to incorporate them into an evaluative model preserving perspectives and goals of these different stakeholders. We propose a definition of social arts followed by an analysis in the context of fine arts, psychology, and social theories. Next, the challenges of researching and evaluating social arts initiatives are discussed, followed by potential pathways and instruments for assessment. This presentation of frameworks, challenges, and methods may lead to further research on social arts initiatives and their impact on society.

Translated abstract

在全球社会急剧突变, 不同社会日益多元、动荡与分化的局势下, 社会艺术有助于维护一个统一、宽容与有序的社会。社会艺术通常由致力于健康、治疗、政治行动和/或社会变革的不同利益相关者发起。这些不同领域的社会艺术很难被分类、定性, 因此也很难评估。本文概述了社会艺术的多种理论和观点, 并就如何将这些理论和观点纳入一个保留不同利益相关者观点与目标的评估模型提出了建议。我们提出了社会艺术的定义, 随后结合纯艺术、心理学和社会理论进行了分析。接下来, 我们讨论了研究与评估社会艺术倡议面临的挑战, 并介绍了潜在的评估路径和评估工具。通过对框架、挑战和方法的介绍, 可以进一步研究社会艺术倡议及其对社会的影响。