Inspiring projects
What can we do together for feeling better in our neighbourhood?
ARTYS La Experimental, an art & community health project that took place in La Colonia Experimental, a deprived neighborhood located in Villaverde Alto in the Madrid city (Spain). The project intends to create new opportunities for a group (women) to improve their health and wellbeing across the creativity and the artistic practices as a way of increasing the neighborhood’s quality of life. The project is based on the community art-based projects, collaborative arts, activist art, community health promote through health assets, action-research participative method and community intervention.
keywords: art-based methods; community health; women; neighbourhood
More information:
https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/68884/1/T42902.pdf
http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/eari.10.12608
Contact: Silvia Siles
Watercolours, care and women
Art program (Watercolor and water techniques) was presented, and through it women would develop, with artistic languages, experiences of well-being, enjoyment, connecting with themselves, ir children and discovering new health spaces. A long-term community project with a group of women that evindeced that participation in workshops and artistic activities with watercolour and other techniques enhances creative capacity, strengthens confidence, and generates wellbeing in groups of women.
key words: creative techniques, watercolours, women, communnity health, wellbeing
More information:
https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=6756167
http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/eari.10.12705
https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/75333/1/T43496.pdf
Contact: Adelaida Larrain
Community empowerment through/in Arts
Replanteando el Bulevar, is art-based community helath project, developed for three years in a neighbourhood of Madrid. The project carried out in collaboration with a Community Health Center of the area,shows the synergies established between artistic practices and social movements, the potential of the ways of doing approached and developed in relation to different indicators of social impact such as social cohesion, improvement of the environment, community empowerment, improvement of public services or improvement of the quality of life of the people involved.
keywords: community art-based project, community health
More information:
http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/eari.10.14246
Contact: Mar Castillejo
Creative gardening, knitting together, watercolours, singing a rap or photocollage
Five concrete experiences , each of them within the context of a collaboration between Madrid Health, public institute of helath prevention and promotion in Madird city and the Fine PhD students of the Complutense University of Madrid. This collaboration on the Art and Health project has the purpose of developing investigative processes based on the Arts in the Municipal Community Health Centres. In this way, the art and the artists form active agents in community health, providing tools and methodologies. From these experiences a series of interesting reflections have arisen concerning: the role or art as a mediator in health promotion, the contribution of different methodologies in this field, the common issues across the five experiences despite them occurring in different contexts, and the art professional’s role in the achievement of integral health promotion objectives in community health. In conclusion, this text strongly supports the integration and consolidation of art professionals into community health contexts.
More information: https://doi.org/10.5209/arte.65388