art evolving into a languange, discovering lost stories

Art Evolving into a Languange,

Discovering Lost Stories

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Helena Malmivirta, City of Salo

Nelli Koivisto, Aalto University

FINLAND

A National European Social Fund

Programme

”The Third Sector Art & Culture, Youth and Sport Organisations

Providing Wellbeing Services” 2007 – 2013

Ministry of Education and Culture

Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment in Lapland

Our presentation

Part One

Nelli Koivisto:

Overview of Service Models in the ESF programme:

Art & Culture for Wellbeing

Part Two

Helena Malmivirta:

Project DIMPLES

Inter-professional Companionships in Wellbeing Services

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Overview of Service Models:

Art & Culture for Wellbeing

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Nelli Koivisto, Master of Arts in Dance, Master of Education

Aalto University, Small Business Center

Project manager, Coordination project THE THIRD SOURCE

Art & Culture

for Wellbeing:

The Actors

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Art and Culture

Associations

Regional Dance and Film Centers

Folk Music Association

CONCERT CENTER… Music Institute Performing Arts Associations

Word Art Associations

Circus Schools and Centers

VISUAL ARTISTS’ ASSOCIATIONS

Voluntary associations

Professional artists’ associations

The Professional Artists

VISUAL artists… Media artists… WORD artists…

MUSICIANS… Music educators

Circus instructors… Dancers and choreographers

THEATER professionals… Puppeteers

Together with…

Intellectually

Disabled Children

Families in Social Care

Immigrant Children and Youth

Young People

Recovering from

Substance Addiction

People Suffering

from Dementia

Seniors in

Geriatric Care

Hospital Patients

Inter-Generational

Groups

Service Contents

and Methods

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The Premise

In art & culture for wellbeing:

Art is a tool for achieving objectives that go beyond

artistic goals

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Arts & Culture in Wellbeing Services

• Music

• Dance

• Plays

• Circus

• Visual Arts

• Stories and Poems

• Radio Plays, Short Films, Audio-visual Recordings

• Reminiscing

• Handicrafts

• Cooking

• Traditional Plays and Games

Forms of Activities

Open activity

Group and club activities

Courses

Workshops

Events

Discussions

Artist mentors in care institutions

Excursions

Camps

Performances

Communal productions

Visits

Occupational therapist – Artist creative

partnerships

The

Partnership

Model

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HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

EDUCATION

CULTURAL SERVICES

YOUTH SERVICES

• Day care / kindergarten

• Health centre / hospital

• Home for the elderly

• Family work

• Foster care

• Basic and special education

• Art education

• Adult education centre

• Children’s cultural network

• Municipal cultural centre

• Art education projects

• Museum, Orchestra

• Youth centre

• Searching youth work

In Municipal Structures

WELLBEING

SERVICE:

Circus for

Children with

Special Needs

ART ASSOCIATION

FINANCER

Local Authority in

Education €

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WELLBEING

SERVICE:

Circus for

Children with

Special Needs

ART ASSOCIATION

FINANCER

Local Authority in

Education

PARTNER

A Local School

€

€

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WELLBEING

SERVICE:

Circus for

Children with

Special Needs

ART ASSOCIATION

FINANCER

Local Authority in

Education

PARTNER

A Local School

USERS

Student Group

Identified by the

School

€

€

€

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User

Experiences

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Dimensions in Art & Culture

for Wellbeing

ART-BASED

METHODS

ACTIVITY

Observing

Discussing

Experimenting

Making & Doing

Performing

Experiencing

Interpreting

EXPERIENCES

Insights

Success

Feeling of inclusion

Breaking down barriers

Finding new perspectives

Getting positive attention

Cutting loose from roles

Finding motivation

Sense of Equality

Joy

EFFECTS ON

Self-esteem

Body control

Self-knowledge

Personal wellbeing

Atmosphere of equality

Having control on one’s life

Capacity for daily routines

Ability to learn new skills

Re-organisation of roles

Mutual trust

Social skills

Tähän otsikkoa tähän otsikkoa

tähän otsikkoa Ja sitten muuta tekstiä…. Ja sitten muuta tekstiä….Ja sitten muuta tekstiä….

Ja sitten muuta tekstiä…. Ja sitten muuta tekstiä….Ja sitten muuta tekstiä….

Ja sitten muuta tekstiä…. Ja sitten muuta tekstiä….Ja sitten muuta tekstiä…. Ja sitten muuta



Ja sitten muuta tekstiä…. Ja sitten muuta tekstiä….Ja sitten muuta tekstiä…. Ja sitten muuta Ja sitten muuta tekstiä…. Ja sitten muuta tekstiä….Ja sitten muuta tekstiä…. Ja sitten muuta



HYMYKUOPAT - HANKE

Project DIMPLES Inter-professional Partnerships in Wellbeing Services October 2009 – September 2012

Helena Malmivirta, Doctor of Education

Project manager, City of Salo

Objective:

To strengthen third sector culture and art organisations’ capacities to develop and

deliver wellbeing services

Starting point:

To meet the needs of local authorities with art and culture based services and

service models

In Cooperation with:

Five Finnish cities: Salo, Turku, Kouvola, Forssa and Hankasalmi

Ten local and regional art and culture associations

A Pilot Project in the National ESF Programme:

The Third Sector Art & Culture, Youth and Sport Organisations Providing Wellbeing

Services 2007 - 2013

The project objectives have taken shape

in four service models

- Emerging from the methods of art and culture

- To be applied by the arts and culture sector

- To complement the service supply of public authorities

(municipalities)

PROJECT DIMPLES

1. The Wellbeing Chain Reaction

2. The Adventure Suitcase

3. Artist – Occupational Therapist Creative Partnerships

4. Cultural Services Next-Door

PROJECT DIMPLES

The Wellbeing Chain Reaction

From the perspective of narrative research

• Long-term companionships between professional artists and public care

institutions for the elderly

• To enhance wellbeing with methods based on arts and culture

• Professional artists of third sector art organisations

The project has enabled development in the field of applied arts

Equal partnerships between social and health care professionals and

professional artists

What is art?

What is culture?

C. Monet Waterlilies

Interiööri/Hailuoto/HM

Defining the concepts

of art and culture

How is the human being and is there art?

Human as a whole and realising her/himself in action

The Doors Are Open

for Arts

”Retirement home is old people’s

home; art must come to them.

We have paused by the art work

together with the elderly and the

personnel to wonder and feel the art

– enjoying the experience generated

by arts”.

Director of an old people’s home

The start for a partnership

Change and Opportunity

• In the course of the project care institutions have changed

… into an agora of personal and collective narratives of daily life

… processed and communicated through the methods of arts

From the Work-of-art Dominant Approach

to a Dialogic Process

”In a process, there is always a new thing, which cannot be foreseen

– a leap into the unfamiliar. One always finds something new about

people and about art making.” An artist involved in the project DIMPLES

Art takes place in a dialogic process between the elderly person

and the artist (Dewey 1934/1980)

Dialogic encountering in art is a space,

which releases meaningful ideas and emotions emerging from one’s

experiences – and folds them into interaction with visual, kinesthetic and

musical associations

Meaningful interaction takes time; it cannot be rushed.

Sensitivity and courage to approach an old person

– listening and observing without the medical status

An Invitation to Creative Interaction

Every encountering is a unique experience of the perceiving subject.

The right way to feel, interpret or react cannot be determined from the outside.

Movement and energy in dance

Rhythm and harmony in music

Settings and action in theatre

Form, colour, and texture in visual art

These qualities bring forward

relationships - consonance and

dissonance - conflicts and their

solutions

Art directs our attention to such

contents and qualities that bring out

the faces of our reality in an intensive

way and lifted from their original

context:

Life Narrated to Art With the means of art one’s lifetime

experiences intertwine into a meaningful

life story – a narrative

The means:

• Photography

• Film art

• Fine art

• Literal art

• Performing arts

• Dance

To be heard with the means of art

Hidden stories to light

”Hands feel like my own. I can clap with them.

In the old days I used to milk cows and bake

buns.

Hands were needed there. To know how to do

it.

Skillful hands.

Have knitted a ruffle with a thread.

Don’t think anything is going to come out of it.

Skillful hands.

It is lovely to touch the boy.

To pat the tummy.

Soft and good, a child’s tummy.

Nice needles in my hand.

The steam of a sauna feels better.

Balmy and warm.

Now I would like to touch a dog. Very fluffy”.

Life story in the form of an Ear Poem

“An old person is a conscious Being

until the end.

Bring every human’s extraordinariness

to light.”

A visual artist involved in the project

DIMPLES

Hidden resources to be

discovered

”I really love classical music –

and how did the conductor move?”

”I can’t dance!

If I had died yesterday,

I would not have learned that

something like this exists.”

The Challenge of

Finding a Shared

Language

For art and health and social care to

meet each other, a shared language is

needed between the professional

artists and the care personnel

A three-step cooperation and

training process as the frame of

reference for experiential art

learning

Achievements of the Wellbeing Chain Reaction

• Changes in alertness

• Recovery of speech

• Strengthening of involvement, interaction and communality

• Reinforcement of the sense of being important

• Decrease in the need for care

• Art structuring the profound experiences of life

– strengthening one’s identity and integrity

From the Perspective of the Elderly

• Professional growth

• Change and extension of the concept of art

• Development of the sociocultural work

• Strengthening of capacity in art pedagogy

- Art pedagogy has been taken to areas where it has not been before

- Breaking down barriers

From the Perspective of the Artist

- Increase in wellbeing in the workplace subsequent to the rising

alertness of the elderly

- Broadening of understanding of the concepts of art and culture

- Understanding of the importance of partnerships

- Strengthening of positive attitudes toward arts and culture as part

of the care of old people with dementia

- Positive feedback from families

From the Perspective of the Nursing Staff

Art as a Dialogic Process – Psychological

Language

Art has reached to the mental and emotional layers of a

human being, long forgotten, and brought to light something

meaningful to oneself

Hidden narratives have been uncovered. Examining the

past has had a positive psychological, emotional and

cognitive effect on one’s sense of integrity.

There is a possibility for identity building across the entire

life time

There is a possibility for continuous learning

Thank you

Helena Malmivirta

City of Salo

[email protected]

+358 44 77 84 903

Nelli Koivisto

Aalto University

[email protected]

+358 50 315 2163

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Images

Meltio, Niklas 2012. Images of pilot project activities in a national ESF Programme ”The Third Sector Art & Culture,

Youth and Sport Organisations Providing Wellbeing Services 2007 – 2013”. (Slides 5, 10, 14, 36 and 40)

Meltio, Niklas 2010. Images from publication Kolmannella lähteellä. Koivisto, Lehikoinen, Pasanen-Willberg,

Ruusuvirta, Saukkonen, Tolvanen, Veikkolainen (Ed.s.). ESF Coordination project the THIRD SOURCE 2008-2010. Kokos

Services, The Theatre Academy Helsinki (Slide 19)

Images by project DIMPLES 2009-2012. (Slides 28-29, 33-35, 37-39, 41-42)

Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution license: Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

Image ”75th Anniversary Volunteers” by vastateparkstaff (Slide 7)

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Image ”DSCN0426” by Tor Lindstrand (Slide 7)

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