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Cultural Policy Lab
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A cultural policy lab that explores the changes arts and culture bring to society.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring how art changes people and society
The lab led by Mia Nakamura takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying the processes and mechanisms through which arts and culture bring about change in people and society.
It is particularly interested in the relationship between art and care, facilitation, and evaluation.
Its topics include arts activities in dementia care settings and the value and evaluation of arts and culture.
The lab considers what can be done to build a society in which different people can live as they are, with their differences intact.
Key terms
- Facilitation
- Supporting and guiding a gathering so that the people involved can carry out creative activities
- Participatory evaluation
- An approach to evaluation in which the people directly involved in or connected to the activity being evaluated also take part
ResearchResearch themes
The lab takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying the processes and mechanisms through which arts and culture bring about change in people and society. It is interested in the relationship between art and care, facilitation, and evaluation.
Arts activities in dementia care settings
The lab examines arts activities in care settings, such as improvisational theater workshops in which people with dementia and their caregivers take part. Using participatory evaluation, it explores the mechanisms through which these activities bring about change in the participants.
*Illustrative imageThe value and evaluation of arts and culture
The lab studies how to bring out and evaluate the value of cultural projects. As part of a joint research team of the Agency for Cultural Affairs and Kyushu University, it also helped produce a handbook that explains the basics of evaluation and how to carry it out.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorMia Nakamura
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Report an errorAbout the images
The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Heidelberg Project-9846” Tyree Guyton and others (for example, Detroit Industrial Gallery by Detroit artist Tim Burke) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- The value and evaluation of arts and culture: “HK Museum of Art TST Visitors 7” Kinan168 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Cultural Policy Lab): “Children Art Therapy” Save the Children Canada / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Arts Management Lab): “Golden Time Talent Festival 2025 – Audience during the Art Awards Ceremony in London” Goldenportal888 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Arts Management Lab): “The conference "Multiformity- Art in Public Space". The 1st action of the 1st edition of Public Art Festival” FAA4891 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Design Systems Lab): “Improvements enhance customer experience ( )” Fort Rucker / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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