Europos kultūros institucijos kaip glokalizmai: Fundação de Serralves ir Šiuolaikinio meno centro atvejai

Globalizacija dažnai suvokiama kaip hegemonija. Kompleksinė lokalumo-globalumo dialektika yra socialinis reiškinys, kurio negalima analizuoti vien globalioje ar lokalioje perspektyvoje. Analizuoti miestą įdomu todėl, kad jame sutelktos pagrindinės vėlyvojo kapitalizmo ypatybės, taip pat jis tampa ypatinga įvairių intensyvių kultūrinių apraiškų vieta – tinklo mazgu. Miesto kultūrinio tapatumo ikonos – šiuolaikinio meno galerijos – pabrėžia miesto glokalumą ir yra turiningi globalizacijos tendencijų tyrimo objektai. Tokia problema keliama disertacijoje, skirtoje Europos šiuolaikinio meno galerijų edukacinėms praktikoms ir strategijoms. Šiame straipsnyje analizuojama socialinė, politinė ir ekonominė šiuolaikinių meno galerijų kūrimo situacija, aiškinamas bendrų globalių tendencijų įjungimas kuriant glokalius projektus. Tyrime analizuosime du atvejus: privačios art deco stiliaus vilos transformaciją į Fundação de Serralves Porte (Portugalijoje) ir Vilniaus Parodų rūmų, kurie buvo skirti sovietinio režimo šlovinimui, atnaujinimą ir pavertimą Šiuolaikinio meno centru

Objeto, Artista e Público – miscigenações entre arte e educação

In the second half of the twentieth century, the relationship between artists and audiences in the visual arts was deeply transformed. Regardless of geography, social oriented art is now a genre in itself, guided by the desire to question object, artist and audience. Participatory art is established on successive cultural (Jameson 1998), education (O’Neill & Wilson 2010) and social turns (Bishop 2006), as attempts to rethink the political potential of art, reviewing creation, mediation and consumption. However, neither it is a linear formula of political art, nor does it recognizes itself in so many other aspects of the new spirit of capitalism – network, mobility, enterprise or manipulation (Boltanski & Chiapello 2005). Therefore with this global ethnography (Burawoy 2000), under design, we intend to study participatory art as a creation social space and social and artistic contemporary mediation, recognizing actors, extensions of this expression, and mapping its presence in the global art circuit. We long to observe this creative process and interview the participants in order to understand the relationship between (i) audience participation, (ii) artists and participants life paths’ (iii) and its artistic and political engagement. It is intended, thus, to create a theoretical and empirical apparatus that combines participative production between artistic, scientific and social fields. Considering both the embryonic stage of this research project and the critical continuities and discontinuities that are present in theoretical work on participatory art, we intend to discuss experiences of miscegenation between art and education, discussing some of the multiple stresses which are summoned: the call for active cultural citizenship, political and civic education, critical attitude towards the scholarly of most cynical contemporary languages , aesthetics and ethics experiments or even the requirement for status of art reformulation, the incorporation of social engineering strategies, commodification of bodies, domination and symbolic violence

How LJMU’s living lab generates real-world data to evaluate the feasibility or effectiveness of a business’s innovation

RWV is an observed study (no primary data collection) that validates all qualitative and quantitative data and benchmarking against bespoke health outcomes

Valuing family carers: the impact of House of Memories as a museum-led dementia awareness programme

This article discusses the value of museums in dementia care practice. The methods used are as follows: (1) quantitative profiling of participants’ care responsibilities; (2) standardised measures of subjective well-being and care burden; (3) participant observation; and (4) qualitative feedback. The results from the data show: (1) increased dementia awareness; (2) improved subjective well-being; (3) increased engagement with museums, and (4) improved capacity for critical, reflective and creative care practice. The conclusion of the article is that the research contributes to scholarly understanding of care practice, training and development by exploring the relationship between cultural intermediation, emotions and affect, and their value in health and social care

A Produção de Conhecimento Situado e Implicado: caminhos e descobertas de uma etnografia global sobre educação cultural e artística contemporânea

This paper about contemporary cultural education discusses the methodological procedures (fundamentals, processes and procedures) of a global ethnography, without forgetting the enabled findings. It starts by debating the global ethnography possibilities, of disclosing the local resistance, interpretations and incorporations, and exposes the four extensions of the extended case method to three contemporary art galleries, three cities European Capitals of Culture (Liverpool, Vilnius, and Porto), during the 1st decade of this century. Secondly, the article shows singular and plural modes of producing museum and city dynamics – deindustrialization, decentralization and de/re-privatisation – while analyses cultural and educational strategies of each gallery by the singular combination of pedagogical, cultural, aesthetic, social, and political purposes

Práticas de Consumo: Valores e orientações

A organização deste número temático da Sociologia, Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto surge na sequência da Midterm Conference do Consumption Research Network da European Sociological Conference (ESA), realizada na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, entre 3 e 6 de setembro de 2014. Este evento resulta de uma organização conjunta do ESA Consumption Research Network (RN5) com o Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade do Porto

Reducing care home falls: a real-world data validation of a multifactorial falls-intervention digital application

Background One in three adults over the age of 65 and one in two adults over the age of 80 will experience a fall a year. Falls account for a considerable cost burden for the National Health Services. Preventing falls in elderly care homes is a significant public health policy goal in the United Kingdom. The 2004 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Clinical Guideline (CG21) recommends risk detection and multifactorial fall prevention interventions. Digital technology allows individualised monitoring and interventions. However, there is no certainty of the impact of multifactorial interventions on the rate of falls. Methods A mixed methods Real-World Validation incorporating a retrospective multi-centre case–control study using real-world data and qualitative study to assess the effectiveness of a falls prevention application in 32 care homes in the Northwest of England. The study aims to assess if a multifactorial fall-prevention digital App reduces falls and injurious falls in care homes. The primary outcome measures were the rate of patient falls per 1000 occupied bed days in care homes for 12 months. A digital multifactorial risk assessment and a tailored fall prevention plan linking each risk factor with the appropriate preventive interventions were implemented/reviewed monthly. For the intervention group two datasets were used. The first set was data recorded in the App on falls and resulting injury levels, multifactorial risk assessments, and number of falls. Sociodemographic variables (gender and age) of care homes residents were also collected for this group. Data for the first twelve months of use of the intervention were collected for early adopter intervention homes. Less than twelve months data was obtainable from care home adopting the intervention later in the study. The second dataset was constituted by intervention and comparable control anonymised data extracted from the care home residents' registries from Borough 1 Council and Borough 2 Clinical Commissioning Group, including quantitative data on the number of falls, number of injurious falls, and outcomes, with emergency room and hospital records for Borough 2. For the qualitative study, twelve video interviews conducted by Safe Steps were analysed thematically to identify user perceptions of various aspects of the App including need, development, implementation, use and benefits. Results The secondary outcome was the rate of injurious falls per 1000 occupied bed days. There were 2.23 fewer falls per 1000 occupied bed days in the Intervention group (M = 6.46, SD = 3.65) compared with Control (M = 8.69, SD = 6.38) (t(2.67) = -2.686, p  = 0.008). The intervention had 3.5 fewer low harm injurious falls ratio per 1000 occupied bed days (M = 3.14, SD = 4.08) (M = 6.64, SD = 6.22) (t(144) = -3588, p< 0.01). There were significant differences between Intervention and Control on injurious falls resulting in ambulance calls (t(31.18) = -3.09, p = 0.04); and patients arriving at Accident & Emergency (t(17.25) = -3.71, p= 0.002).Thematic analysis of the video interviews identified the following six themes: Alleviation of staff workload; the impact of falls on both the individual and on the health care system; achievement of health outcome benefits, including reduced hospital visits for falls and improved quality of life for the patients living in care homes; the improvement over paper-based risk assessments for staff; the uniqueness of the person-centred approach of the App; and the ability of the approach to track patients across boundaries in the health and social care system. Conclusions In this real-world validation, the implementation of a multifactorial fall-prevention digital app was associated with a significant reduction in falls and injurious falls, and was perceived to be highly beneficial by care home residents, staff, management and care commissioners where the approach was implemented

How Do We Know Co-Created Solutions Work Effectively within the Real World of People Living with Dementia? Learning Methodological Lessons from a Co-Creation-to-Evaluation Case Study

Living Labs (LL) are a novel and potentially robust way of addressing real-life health challenges, especially within the dementia field. Generally, LLs focus on co-creating through implementing the quadruple helix partnership as a user-centric approach to co-creating. In the context of this paper, the users were people with dementia and their informal carers. LL are not necessarily environments that evaluate these co-created innovations within the real world. Considering this disconnect between co-creation and real-world evaluation, this paper, as a critical commentary, will reflect on the methodological lessons learnt during the development of an LL model aimed at addressing this discrepancy. The LL at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) was commissioned to co-create and then evaluate a new Dementia Reablement Service. The case study findings revealed that the Dementia Reablement Service had a positive impact on the quality of life of people with dementia, suggesting that the service is a catalyst for positive change. In addition, the critical learning from this case study highlights the potential role of LLs in seamlessly co-creating and then evaluating the co-created solution within the real world. A benefit of this way of working is that it provides opportunities for LLs to secure access to traditional research funding

Real-World Validation of Health Innovation: a systematic review

b. Aim of review Real-World Data (RWD) and Real-World Evidence (RWE) are playing an increasing role in health care decisions. Electronic health records, the use of computers, mobile devices, wearables and other biosensors to gather and store huge amounts of health-related data has been rapidly accelerating. This data holds the potential to allow us to better design and conduct studies in the health care setting. Furthermore, Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT), the gold standard in the context of clinical guidelines, are time and resource-intensive, lack of generalizability and typically restricted to evaluating specific interventions one at a time. RCTs are being challenged by health care providers since they are looking for (RWE) to validate innovative interventions. This systematic review and meta-analysis will assess the literature to establishing a clearer definition and terminology of Real World Validation (RWV) including a better understanding of the associated methods, determining in how and in which contexts RWV has been used. c. Search and review methodology A systematic search of Cochrane Library, PubMed, MedLine (EBSCO), Web-of-Science (BIOSIS Citation Index, BIOSIS Previews, KCI-Korean journal database, Russian Science Citation Index, SciELO Citation Index), SCOPUS, and grey literature was performed independently by two reviewers using predefined criteria. d. Findings (Findings must be included and be relevant to the aims and/or objectives.) 1,153 records were identified, 254 titles and abstracted were scanned after the duplicates removed, 62 studies met the selection criteria and were considered for full-text review. e. Conclusions and implication The data collected suggested that Real-world Validation (RWV) is a cost-effective, relevant and adaptable mix-method user-inclusive methodology to assess the impact and benefits to patients, staff and the health economy, in a non-controlled environment by using RWD and RWE, of an innovation that has already undergone a pilot process. RWV generates insight, foresight, and explorative findings to bring a product to the healthcare market and to ensure its significance in clinical practice, grasping up with the principles of health economics and outcome research, thereby exhibiting the value of real‑world insights in healthcare decisio