scholarly journals San Basilio de Palenque: Visual ethnography of urban art in Palenque

Memorias ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 204-231
Author(s):  
Rennier Estefan Ligarretto Feo
Keyword(s):  
Visual Ethnography ◽  
Urban Art

Este trabajo constituye una aproximación inicial a la expresión del arte callejero en San Basilio de Palenque. Para ello se aborda un enfoque cualitativo de corte descriptivo con el objetivo de analizar los usos del lenguaje visual en el arte palenquero a partir de la etnografía visual y las herramientas propias del texto visual. Para ello, se analizan piezas de varios estilos del graffiti en relación con la expresión de herramientas del lenguaje visual en las prácticas sociales y culturales documentadas de la comunidad palenquera. Entre los resultados encontrados se resaltan expresiones artísticas de resistencia y conservación de la cultura como estrategias organizativas para visibilizar las dificultades, retos y tradiciones del primer pueblo libre de América Latina.

scholarly journals Children helping to co-construct a digital tool that is designed to increase children’s participation in child welfare investigations in Sweden

2021 ◽  
pp. 147332502199086
Author(s):  
Helena Blomberg ◽  
Gunnel Östlund ◽  
Philip Rautell Lindstedt ◽  
Baran Cürüklü
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Visual Ethnography ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research Project ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation

How do children (aged 6–12 years) understand and make use of a digital tool that is under development? This article builds on an ongoing interdisciplinary research project in which children, social workers (the inventers of this social innovation) and researchers together develop an interactive digital tool (application) to strengthen children’s participation during the planning and process of welfare assessments. Departing from social constructionism, and using a discursive narrative approach with visual ethnography, the aim of the article is to display how the children co-construct the application and contribute with “stories of life situations” by drawing themselves as characters and the places they frequent. The findings show that the children improved the application by suggesting more affordances so that they could better create themselves/others, by discovering bugs, and by showing how it could appeal to children of various ages. The application helped the children to start communicating and bonding when creating themselves in detail, drawing places/characters and describing events associated with them, and sharing small life stories. The application can help children and social workers to connect and facilitate children’s participation by allowing them to focus on their own perspectives when drawing and sharing stories.

A visual ethnography of an urban neighborhood

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Carol Isaac ◽  
Arla Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Visual Ethnography ◽  
Urban Neighborhood

An Experience in Constructing a Qualimetric Assessment of the Significance of Urban Art Objects

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-126
Author(s):  
Marina E. Vilchinskaya-Butenko ◽  
Nikolai N. Rozhkov
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Relative Significance ◽  
Urban Art ◽  
Art Object ◽  
Art Objects ◽  
Emotional Dimension ◽  
Artistic Interpretation ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

The article attempts to ensure the unity of views on the implementation of urban art projects in local contexts. The paper aims to discuss the results of a pilot study obtained through a comprehensive assessment of the significance of urban art objects using qualimetric scales. The authors selected seven art objects that meet the four requirements: a) the art objects exist in the urban environment at the time of their assessment by experts; b) the art objects have a high communicative potential, that is, they are interesting to the viewer; c) there are discussions in the media and social networks about the prospects for preserving the art objects; d) the sample is heterogeneous. The experimental group included ten experts, both art theorists and practitioners. The experts were asked to evaluate the significance of each of the art objects by ranking them according to eight “rational” and two “emotional” criteria. The existence of consistency of the experts’ opinions was checked using the concordance coefficient. The pilot study showed that the most significant among the rational criteria for evaluating an artwork were technography (the degree of qualitative impact of the art object on the environment, the degree of the work’s conditionality with the context) and iconography (the uniqueness/brightness of the author’s message). The significance of the other principles (of technology and iconology) is considerably lower, which means that they can be ignored when constructing the final assessment by linear convolution. There was also a fairly high relative significance of the two emotional criteria that had been proposed for the experts’ consideration (the emotional dimension of the work in the artist’s experience and the emotional dimension of the work in the viewer’s experience). The scientific novelty of the research is determined by the fact that a systematic approach to assessing the rational aspects of the artistic interpretation of an urban art object makes it necessary and sufficient to rely on the two methodological principles for evaluating an artwork — technography and iconography. When evaluating the emotional aspects of artistic interpretation, it is necessary and sufficient to rely on the emotional dimension of the work in the experience of the artist and the viewer. The results obtained suggest finding an objective scientific basis for regulating the visual culture of public spaces.

A Visual Ethnography of Soils in Space and Time

2018 ◽  
pp. 509-514
Author(s):  
Ekkeland Götze ◽  
Winfried E.H. Blum ◽  
Alexandra R. Toland
Keyword(s):  
Visual Ethnography ◽  
Space And Time

scholarly journals Itako on screen

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Ilaria Vecchi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Visual Ethnography ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The North ◽  
Fieldwork Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Critical Religion ◽  
Visual Methodology ◽  
North Eastern Part

This article is based on my fieldwork with Itako shamans in the north-eastern part of Japan. The progressive modernisation of Japan at the expense of rural areas has also affected Tohoku, resulting in the ageing of the social fabric of its communities. Within this context, this article focusses on traditional and established activities practised by the blind female Itako shamans, who are going through a process of adaptation. Therefore, the article is concerned with this process and, in particular, on the methodology applied before and during my fieldwork experience of spending time, observing, having conversations, and filming these women in their everyday life. In the attempt to understand and document these shamans, I consider the use of visual ethnographic methods for understanding the changing aspects and their implications on the life of these women. While doing this, I also considered their communities and the area in which they live. I analyse this process by blending different methodologies such as visual methodology and digital visual ethnography and the critical religion approach proposed by Fitzgerald (2000). In addition, the paper will describe how I applied this methodology to provide a fresh look at these women and their daily activity.

scholarly journals Arte Urbano en colecciones públicas y privadas. El caso del fondo artístico de la UPV

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 233-243
Author(s):  
Mercedes Sánchez Pons
Keyword(s):  
Urban Art

El arte urbano desde hace ya décadas viene siendo objeto de estudio, interés y deseo. Instituciones, iniciativas sociales y particulares han promovido su producción en un entorno determinado bajo intereses muy variados, incitando de algún modo también el deseo de colección. En este texto analizamos un caso concreto insertándolo en este contexto global, el de las intervenciones de artistas urbanos realizadas en la Universitat Politècnica de València bajo convocatorias como el festival anual Poliniza, actualmente Poliniza-Dos, que se celebra desde el año 2006, Tuenti Urban Art o el proyecto Murales interactivos: Mujeres de Ciencia. La asimilación de alguna de estas obras en el paisaje interno del campus ha llevado a plantear su inclusión en el catálogo del fondo de arte de la universidad, bajo una colección determinada, cuya existencia y posible denominación no están exentas de controversia.

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