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Applying the four perspectives to art
In considering the application of public resources to artmaking, the four perspectives can be used to examine the potential public benefit
Environmental Respect |
Social Inclusivity |
Economic Equity |
Cultural Vitality |
Resources / context / diversity / mapping |
Power / structure / connection / governance |
Wealth / production / distribution / commonwealth / exchange / trade |
Ideas / purpose / animation / planning |
The basic questions |
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WHAT |
WHO |
HOW |
WHY |
What do we start with? |
Who decides? |
Who benefits? |
Where do we want to go? |
Issues |
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Understanding & appreciation of our diverse tangible & intangible heritages |
Active citizenship Universal empowerment Social inclusion & capital Participatory democracy |
Humane production Equitable distribution Universal resource access |
Active participation Diverse authenticity Continuing engagement |
What's going on |
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Embodying the pastConserving & transmitting diverse heritagesAnimationCelebrationInterrogationAdaptationSynthesis/hybridisation |
Critiquing the present Community strengthening Community literacy / eloquence / discourse Communication & education enhancement Public health/wellbeing improvement Public place making |
Calculating the cost Commodity production Industrial/professional practice General productivity & employability improvements Tourism, entertainment, leisure |
Imagining the future Making meaning Encapsulating (holding) meaning Expressing meaning Transmitting meaning Enlivening meaning |
Will implementation.... |
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... fruitfully & sustainably use resources? |
... stimulate democratic power distribution? |
... be financially achievable? |
... stimulate creative public discourse? |
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© 15/10/09 Jon Hawkes <email> <web>
From The Hawkes Library; affiliated with FourthPillar.biz