In this article, we highlight how arts-based practices in a residential care home can contribute to social innovation. We describe how arts-based methods have the potential to contribute to a more sustainable society where people living with dementia become equal citizens. The article is based on an eight years long lasting situated art intervention in a residential care home in Northern Norway from ...

The cultural sector is a potential instigator of change due to its experimental, performative, and relational nature. However, like everywhere else, the cultural sector re-enacts and thus conserves inequalities of various kinds through its outreach to wider audiences and its deep engagement in socio-cultural practices. By taking our actions within the ERASMUS+ project ‘Voices of Women’ as a ...

In this article that opens and introduces the special issue Conceptualizing the North, we present our theoretical rationale behind the conceptualization(s) of the north presented both in our article and in the issue as a whole, as well as our approach to the co-creative peer review. Through new material feminist understanding of the north, we acknowledge our kin both past and present, and unfold a ...

In addition to ongoing territorial and material re-organization of power as a result of 19th-century European colonialism, there has been an increasing focus on decolonializing knowledge practices in higher education. Research communities are discussing what it could mean to decolonize thining practices, conditions of knowledge creation, and access to higher education. Since the arts are a powerful ...

Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias (ADD) challenge Western economies, in which biomedical human-centric understandings of ADD as deficit dominates. To imagine lives with ADD differently, we have facilitated and researched co-creative art sessions rooted in feminist posthumanities in residential care homes in Northern Norway. We have experimented with Karen Barad’s diffractive methodology, ...

The Tromsø-based project Gender Balance in Art Education aims to contribute to the discussion on gender balance in higher education in the arts. On the basis of two empirical studies the project develops new knowledge about major structural and cultural challenges with gender-equality work in academia. Furthermore, the project develops innovative gender-equality measures and strategies to promote ...

Formålet med denne publikasjonen er å formidle erfaringene fra forskningsog tiltaksprosjektet «Kjønn og skjønn i kunstfagene» gjennomført ved Det kunstfaglige fakultet, UiT – Norges arktiske universitet i perioden 2015–2018. Prosjektet var en del av BALANSE-programmet til Norges forskningsråd, og hadde som målsetting å bedre balansen på toppnivå i kunstfaglig utdanning, med vekt på musikkutdanningene ...

Der »Global Gender Gap Report«, in dem die Differenz der Geschlechter anhand von Indikatoren aus den Gebieten Wirtschaft, Gesundheit, Bildung und Politik gemessen wird, platziert die skandinavischen Länder schon seit mehreren Jahren auf den vordersten Plätzen. 2008 lag Norwegen sogar auf Platz. Die Unterschiede zwischen den Geschlechtern waren damit in keinem anderen Land geringer. Zum sechsten ...

In this article we discuss how to develop methodological tools to guide social innovation in the arts and health movement. We approach this question by making research within Artful Dementia Research Lab as transparent as possible by 1) describing study designs 2) presenting arts-based datasets, and 3) giving insight into what we define as aesthetic analysis. We outline four premisses of situated ...