Art Based Methods in Social Work
- 2. MAIN TOPICS •BACKGROUND – WHY ART-BASED METHODS? •DIFFERENT TYPES OF METHODS •SOCIO-CULTURAL ANIMATION (SCA) •CULTURAL ANIMATION •WHO BENEFITS FROM THE METHODS? 1/17/2018NYLUND 2
- 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) 1/17/2018NYLUND 3
- 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 1/17/2018NYLUND 4
- 5. DIFFERENT TYPES OF METHODS (2) Photograpy, film making Nature: camping, hiking Storytelling, theatre, drama 1/17/2018NYLUND 5
- 6. DIFFERENT TYPES OF METHODS (3) Barbeque (eating together) Writing (poetry, rap songs) 1/17/2018NYLUND 6
- 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) 1/17/2018NYLUND 7
- 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) 1/17/2018NYLUND 8
- 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/ 1/17/2018NYLUND 9
- 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 1/17/2018NYLUND 10
- 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.) 1/17/2018NYLUND 11