Public Art And The Impact It Has On The Society

Public art is an art form that is displayed in public spaces; it’s for everyone to enjoy. Its existence creates interests, entertainment, and beautifies the environment. Public art fulfills a variety of functions within the public sphere, providing opportunities for, artistic self-expression; community dialogue; education and enjoyment; inspiring participation in appreciation and creation of art; community problem solving; enhancement of the physical infrastructure and environment; and demarcation, celebration and transformation of places. This research aims to explore the impact public art has on the society. The literature review, document analysis and interview were done to help justify the findings of the investigation. The research found that there are multidimensional impacts of public art in urban environment(s). The perceived benefits of art that is displayed in public spaces either in physical, social, or cultural domains suggest that public art is very prominent in creating liveability and sustainability of the city.Seni publik adalah bentuk seni yang ditampilkan di ruang publik; itu untuk dinikmati semua orang. Keberadaannya menciptakan minat, hiburan, dan memperindah lingkungan. Seni publik memenuhi berbagai fungsi dalam ruang publik, memberikan kesempatan untuk ekspresi diri artistik; dialog komunitas; pendidikan dan kesenangan; partisipasi yang menginspirasi dalam apresiasi dan penciptaan seni; pemecahan masalah masyarakat; peningkatan infrastruktur fisik dan lingkungan; dan demarkasi, perayaan dan transformasi tempat. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi dampak seni publik terhadap masyarakat. Tinjauan pustaka, analisis dokumen dan wawancara dilakukan untuk membantu membenarkan temuan penyelidikan. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa ada dampak multidimensi seni publik di lingkungan perkotaan. Manfaat yang dirasakan dari seni yang ditampilkan di ruang publik baik dalam ranah fisik, sosial, maupun budaya menunjukkan bahwa seni publik sangat menonjol dalam menciptakan liveability dan keberlanjutan kota.

Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of a community dialogue intervention in the prevention and control of schistosomiasis in Nampula province, Mozambique

Background Schistosomiasis is a parasitic neglected tropical disease that ranks second only to malaria in terms of human suffering in the tropics and subtropics. Biomedical disease control interventions need to be complemented with effective prevention and health education strategies, that address the social and environmental determinants of disease. Malaria Consortium conducted an implementation research study between May 2014 and February 2016, in four districts of Nampula province, Mozambique, to test a Community Dialogue (CD) intervention to enhance schistosomiasis prevention and control. The study aimed to evaluate the acceptability and feasibility of using CD to improve communities’ level of knowledge, attitudes and practices, and engagement in wider schistosomiasis prevention and control efforts. Methods The feasibility and acceptability of the CD intervention was evaluated using qualitative and process evaluation data collected throughout the development and implementation phases. Qualitative data sets included key informant interviews (N = 4) with health system personnel, focus group discussions (N = 22) with Community Dialogue facilitators and participants, field observation visits (N = 11), training reports (N = 7), feedback meeting reports (N = 5), CD monitoring sheets (N = 1,458) and CD planning sheets (N = 152). Findings The CD intervention was found highly acceptable and feasible, particularly well-suited to resource poor settings. Non-specialist community volunteers were able to deliver participatory CDs which resulted in increased knowledge among participants and triggered individual and communal actions for improved disease prevention and control. The visual flipchart was a key aid for learning; the use of participatory communication techniques allowed the correction of misconceptions and positioned correct prevention and control practices as the community recommendations, through consensus building. Conclusion The Community Dialogue Approach should be embedded within neglected tropical disease control programmes and the health system to create long-lasting synergies between the community and health system for increased effectiveness. However, for behavioural change to be feasible, community engagement strategies need to be supported by improved access to treatment services, safer water and sanitation.

Community-based development and collective learning: How does a local community engage and learn to initiate a smart village development?

The aim of this study is examining learning process undertaken by Klagen, Nganjuk local community in their journey to transform their rural area into a smart village ad what they need to promote their collective learning. The data are collected through two main methods: community dialogue and direct participant observations during village visits and business training, particularly for Klagen’s youth. Thematic analysis, which is grounded on empowerment steps, is performed to interpret the gathered data. Many previous studies examine the outcome of smart village, as the end product. Differently, this study aims to explore the process to develop a smart village, especially at the initial stage and presents development-community education interfaces. The study indicates that to transform their village into a smart village, Klagen community should collaboratively engage in community sharing in which they build shared vision to change, integrate ideas, thinking and social-cultural analysis, observational learning in which they learn from neighbor village model, partnership seeking in which they explore potential networking outside their village area and business-entrepreneurship learning in which the young people learn how to initiate and manage local business. Klagen community needs to integrate their local knowledge, self-building capacity-resources with the empowered skills and knowledge. This study provides an integrated knowledge on education, particularly community education and smart village development, which is a proliferated rural development approach in Indonesia context nowadays. The discussion in this paper is limited to the initial stage of Klagen continuing journey to be a smart village. In this initial stage, the process is focusing on exploring socially and culturally relevant smart village (finding smart village identity), planning and preparing Klagen’s human resources through education.

Addressing race and diversity in graduate education: Practices from student activism

This practice brief presents the work of doctoral students who aim to reform the graduate experience in their department to support marginalized students. Utilizing strategies from community organization and organizational change theories, we detail the processes of fostering community dialogue and of crafting a demand letter to communicate students’ needs and recommendations. We also discuss implications as it relates to accountability, implementation, and overcoming pushback. By centering students’ voices in change efforts, we hope to empower other students in dismantling oppressive systems and implementing practices to make higher education a more equitable and safer environment for marginalized students to thrive.

Engaging contested community issues

This article presents an analysis of dialogue as an alternative to debate and argument for engaging contested community issues. Treating dialogue as a communication practice, I draw on ethnography of communication, cultural communication theory, and cultural discourse analysis to describe and interpret how participants practiced community dialogue as a communication event comprised of sequences of listening and verbally responding. When topics and identities were elaborated upon and socially negotiated through personal communication in the form of narratives and emotional responses, participants reported effective dialogue. These sequences were dialogic moments partially due to the dialectical tension between Americans’ once predictable civic routine of public expression of individual’s beliefs and the process of dialogue featured in our War and Peace dialogue workshop.

Factors Influencing Utilization of Maternal Health Services by Adolescent Young Mothers Aged 15-19 Years in Kiryandongo General Hospital

Background: In Uganda, 25 % of adolescents age 15-19 have already begun childbearing, 19 % have already given birth and another 5 % pregnant with their first child. Utilization of maternal health services is, therefore, an effective approach to reducing the risk of maternal morbidity and mortality. Low utilization of Maternal Health Services (MHS) has been registered in many parts of Uganda.Objective: To identify the key factors that influenced the utilization of MHS by adolescent young mothers aged 15-19years in Kiryandongo general HospitalMethods: A Cross Sectional analytical design, both quantitative and qualitative was used. A total of 98 adolescent young mothers were randomly selected. Data was collected using semi-structure questionnaires and analyzed using SPSS version 19.Results: Level of utilization of MHS was 44.9%. The socio-demographic (personal) factors that significantly influenced MHS utilization were; maternal age (COR= 0.29; 95% CI: 0.13-0.67, p = 0.003), husband’s education level (COR= 0.19; 95% CI: 0.08-0.47, p =0.000) and husband’s monthly income (COR= 0.35; 95% CI: 0.15-0.80, p = 0.012). Health System factors that influenced MHS utilization included; Time for travelling to reach health facility (COR=2.39; 95% CI: 1.03-5.52, p = 0.040) and Cost of the health services (COR= 2.68; 95% CI: 1.17-6.15, p =0.019).Conclusion: Strategies in addressing decision-making norms, engaging in massive community dialogue and designing appropriate communication strategies may help improve MHS utilization.

Why Does Context Really Matter? Understanding Companies’ Dialogue with Fringe Communities

Although scholars have studied stakeholder dialogue, we lack studies that understand the effect of context on the structure and form of dialogue. To address this gap, in this research we focus on local rural communities that can be classified as fringe stakeholders to develop a comprehensive model of “fringe community dialogue”. As these neglected groups have been marginalized from society and face grave serious socio-environmental issues, we argue that these characteristics will affect the way dialogue occurs. Therefore, we posit that these instances need to be tailored to this specific stakeholder. To assess this, we follow a theory-building grounded theory approach, and as field of research we extract information from three different research sites. Findings indicate that, because of the characteristics of fringe communities, dialogues must follow three sequential dimensions, which are connected by two enabling mechanisms. We contribute by evincing that, because of this stakeholder’s characteristics, the dialogue process has a particular structure and key variables, differing from what the past literature asserts.

Dystopias for discourse: the role of the artist in a rapidly reconfiguring city

This paper grew out of a collaborative research project with Knox City Council, a local authority located on the eastern fringe of Melbourne (Australia) around 35 kilometres from the city centre. It articulates the role site-responsive artworks can play in interrogating the individual impact of climate change and new and old technologies on specific communities by exploring the development and reception of Section 32, an immersive performance installation that converted an ordinary suburban home into a speculative vision of the Australian suburbs, somewhere at the end of the 21st century. Located in an area undergoing rapid population increase, and therefore reconstruction, where residents had little opportunity to engage in a discourse about the planning process, Section 32 became a critical platform for discussion, revealing a public sentiment that was at odds with what local government was seeing in the local press.<br /><br />Key messages<br /><ul><li>Immersive speculative futures can open up constructive opportunities for community dialogue about urban futures.</li><br /><li>Site-responsive artworks, installed outside the gallery, can open up new place-based discussions by attracting diverse audiences.</li></ul>