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Cultural Policy Lab
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A lab that explores the relationship between society and the arts through art and care, cultural policy, and evaluation.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring how arts and culture change people and society
Prof. Nakamura's Cultural Policy Lab takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying the processes and mechanisms through which arts and culture bring change to people and society.
The lab is especially interested in the relationship between art and care, facilitation, and evaluation.
It has also carried out a great deal of research on gender, sexuality, diversity, and inclusion.
The lab considers what can be done to create a society in which different people can go on living as different people.
Key terms
- Facilitation
- Making it easier for participants to hold discussions and carry out activities, and drawing out everyone's creativity
- Arts management
- Putting in place the operations, funding, and cooperation among people needed to connect artistic activity to society
- Social inclusion
- Ensuring that people of diverse backgrounds are accepted as members of society rather than being left out of it
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the mechanisms through which arts and culture bring change to people and society, with particular interest in art and care, evaluation, and facilitation. Its research also covers activities in dementia care settings and arts activities that lead to social inclusion.
*Illustrative imageArts and culture activities in dementia care settings
The lab investigates how arts and culture activities affect both people with dementia and their caregivers in care facilities where they live. Improvisational theater workshops are examined through participatory evaluation, in which the people involved take part.
*Illustrative imageThe value and evaluation of arts and culture
The lab studies how to understand and evaluate the value of arts and culture. As a member of a joint research team of the Agency for Cultural Affairs and Kyushu University, it compiled a handbook on evaluation, and it also supervised and edited a report on the evaluation of grant-funded programs.
*Illustrative imageArt and social inclusion
The lab studies, from the perspectives of arts management and cultural policy, how art contributes to building a society that embraces diverse people. In the joint research with the Agency for Cultural Affairs and Kyushu University, it produced a handbook on social inclusion and arts and culture.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorMia Nakamura
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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: “Children Art Therapy” Save the Children Canada / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Arts and culture activities in dementia care settings: “Community Garden - geograph.org.uk - 965422” Alan Murray Walsh / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- The value and evaluation of arts and culture: “Art gallery guided tour visitors viewing colorful painting” Ristever / CC0 (cropped)
- Art and social inclusion: “College of DuPage Unveils Downtown Glen Ellyn Mural, Launching DuPage Public Art Project ( )” COD Newsroom / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Cultural Policy Lab): “Heidelberg Project-9846” Tyree Guyton and others (for example, Detroit Industrial Gallery by Detroit artist Tim Burke) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (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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