PARTICIPATION IN CULTURAL CENTRES IN DENMARK, 2023
Five Ways to Study One's Own Cultural Centre 9 CHAPTER 3 12 Cultural Centres in Denmark-The Quant... more Five Ways to Study One's Own Cultural Centre 9 CHAPTER 3 12 Cultural Centres in Denmark-The Quantitative Study 13 CHAPTER 4 18 Participation in the Cultural Centres-The Qualitative Study 19 The purpose of the report is to share and disseminate the knowledge created, so it can also benefit a wide range of cultural centres, including those outside Denmark. Keywords and Concepts Participation: 'Participation' is a broad term. In cultural centres, it refers to many different practices in which the individual user is part of a larger social context. This could be a shared artistic experience or creative production, a verbal or physical exchange, or a collective learning or decision-making process. Cultural centres provide a framework not only for cultural, but also for social and democratic participation, and it was important to include the diversity of forms of participation that take place in cultural centres. We regard the various forms of participation as equally valuable, and do not distinguish between 'good' and 'less good' participation. Cultural centre: DELTAG encompasses what we have referred to as cultural centres, and other cultural institutions that engage citizens. In the quantitative part of the study, we only included cultural centres and public libraries. We mapped cultural centres across Denmark using the definition of a cultural centre as an institution and/or place that gives space to professional and amateur cultural activities, provides for a combination of cultural and social activities, allows for citizeninitiated activities and focuses on diversity in activities as well as users. The three core research questions in DELTAG are: • Which participatory practices take place in cultural centres? • How do these forms of participation relate to the different organisational features of the cultural centres? • What are the outcomes and values of (the different forms of) participation for the participants, for the cultural centres and possibly for the local area or a broader area? More detailed descriptions of the project's methodology and results can be found in L.E. Hansen and K. Nordentoft: Kulturhuse i Danmark-et kvantitativt studie af et mangfoldigt felt 2020 www.pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/ kulturhuse-i-danmark and B. Eriksson, L.E. Hansen and K. Nordentoft: Deltagelse i kulturhuse og andre borgerinvolverende kulturinstitutioner 2021 www.ebooks.au.dk/aul/catalog/book/429 In terms of methodology and concept, DELTAG is based on a European research and development project entitled RECcORD, in which participation was also both a research topic and method. Cf.
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