Mediação Artística e Cultural: Que Perfil Profissional?

Cristina Barroso Cruz; Laurence Vohlgemuth

doi:10.21814/rlec.4257

Authors

Cristina Barroso Cruz Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos Educacionais, Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal/Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal/Centro de Humanidades, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3544-0298
Laurence Vohlgemuth Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos Educacionais, Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisbon Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8374-9356

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21814/rlec.4257

Keywords:

artistic and cultural mediation, professional profile, citizenship, cultural democracy, democratisation of culture

Abstract

The emergence of a new professional group to meet the challenges posed by the changing role and place of artists and arts in current societies, as well as the relationship between the public(s) and the various artistic and cultural manifestations, has prompted us to try to (a) understand how some potential employers, trainers and graduates see the role of the artistic and cultural mediator; (b) identify the definition(s) they propose of artistic and cultural mediation; and (c) identify the knowledge and skills they consider necessary for this professional exercise.

A brief literature review (Arnaud, 2018; Henry, 2014; Lussier, 2015; Mörsch & Holland, 2012) contributes to a better definition of the concept of artistic and cultural mediation that reconciles the rationales of the democratisation of culture and cultural democracy, highlighting, among other things, the purposes that can be pursued.

Drawing on a specific context of the degree in artistic and cultural mediation of the Lisbon School of Education, graduates, teachers and cooperating professionals who supervise the trainees of this degree were engaged in focus groups.

The respondents provide definitions of artistic and cultural mediation with educational, social, cultural, investigative, political and economic dimensions, a wide range of knowledge and skills necessary for an intervention in this area, and various roles played.

We conclude with the importance of pursuing research to better circumscribe a domain of specific knowledge and the field of intervention as conceptual for artistic and cultural mediation.

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Author Biographies

Cristina Barroso Cruz, Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos Educacionais, Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal/Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal/Centro de Humanidades, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Cristina Barroso Cruz has a PhD in Biological Anthropology (2012) from the University of Coimbra, where she undertook her other academic training: a degree in Anthropology (1999) and a master's degree in Human Evolution (2004) and training in intangible cultural heritage provided in partnership by the Direcção Geral do Património Cultural/Museu Nacional de Etnologia/Universidade Aberta (2015). She participated in various projects for safeguarding historical and archaeological heritage as a physical anthropologist until 2011. A lecturer since 2010 at the Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa, she has been developing work on heritage and museology issues within the courses she teaches and the research centres she integrates (Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano — Universidade do Algarve and Centro de Humanidades — Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa). More recently, she has been developing research in the field of artistic and cultural mediation as co-coordinator of the degree course with the same name and coordinator of the project Entre: Investigação em Mediação Artística e Cultural (In between: Research in Artistic and Cultural Mediation), funded by the Centro Interdisciplinar em Estudos Educacionais of the Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa. She is also part of the coordinating team of this centre and the editor of the journal Da Investigação às Práticas: Estudos de Natureza Educacionais.

Laurence Vohlgemuth, Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos Educacionais, Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisbon Portugal

Laurence Vohlgemuth's professional career has always been linked to education, in the broadest sense, and culture. After training and years of professional practice as a primary school teacher, she moved to Portugal, where she worked in many different contexts. She graduated (1993) in Educational Sciences at the Université Toulouse Le Mirail, France, where she also obtained a master's degree in Educational Sciences (1996) and a diploma of advanced studies, with a specialisation in education, training, and integration (1998). She is currently an adjunct professor at the Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa, where she led the working group that created the degree in artistic and cultural mediation, a course she coordinates. Her communications and publications always focus on issues related to training and education in their various forms. She is currently researching the articulation between schools and cultural and artistic organisations as part of the doctoral programme equity and innovation in education at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. She is a member of the research team of the project Entre: Investigação em Mediação Artística e Cultural (In between: Research in Artistic and Cultural Mediation), funded by the Centro Interdisciplinar em Estudos Educacionais of the Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa.

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