Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, University of Arts Helsinki Sibelius Academy, Laurea University of Applied Sciences, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and Estonian Business School are happy to welcome you in our international network of managing art projects with societal impact. We hope to foster a community to share ideas, outlines, handouts and
teaching materials.
WHY? There is a considerable increase in artistic projects that aim to engage in societal activity. These projects and activities are often managed by artists or social workers with hardly any managerial knowledge. The current art and cultural management programs, on the other hand, mainly concentrate on providing skills to engage in “art for art’s sake” projects. However, by developing the current master’s degree programs that have proven their quality and popularity, a specialization on managing art & society activities would be an efficient way to respond to the identified demand.
WHAT IS MAPSI ABOUT? Managing Arts Projects with Societal Impact (MAPSI) refers to a specialization in management of artistic projects with societal impact, and aims to create an international network focusing on educating cultural managers and facilitators to manage and mediate artistic and cultural projects with societal impact. MAPSI integrates the transnational and interdisciplinary fields of art, management and societal impact by developing a novel understanding on the interaction between art and society and increasing the skills and competences of future cultural managers to foster the valuable interface.
OBJETIVES Create an innovative field of specialization in the context of art/cultural management master’s programs that train the future managers and mediators for artistic projects with societal impact. Develop new teaching materials and content of high quality that contribute to the European arts/cultural management education. Build up a conception of new integrated models for interactive study and internships.
HOW CAN YOU BENEFIT? Study and Guide Books are just out! Two important outcomes of the MAPSI project – Study and Guide Book – have just been published and shared with wider audiences. The Study Book is targeted mainly for students of cultural management, cultural policy and social services and it can be used as a course book for learning how to manage arts projects with societal impact. The Study Book provides also new insights and a structured way of teaching the topic. The book consists of three parts: (I) Perspectives on art and societal impact, giving a general frame to the topic of managing projects with societal impact (incl. ethics, impact, policy); (II) Managing societally influential art projects, helping to understand the different managerial aspects in art projects (incl. leadership and evaluation) (III) Case Studies, giving concrete examples on the subject. Guide Book will target the professionals, developers and policy makers in art and social fields.
https://issuu.com/mapsiproject/docs/mapsi_study_book The Guide Book concludes the main aspects of the materials presented in the Study Book. It highlights, for example, the key results, describes the content of the curriculum in managing art projects with societal impact and the new internship model to be used as tool of sustainability. A Spanish version is on the way.
https://issuu.com/mapsiproject/docs/mapsi_in_a_nutshell MAPSI E‐courses Development of the learning content to the virtual learning environment has gone in hand with the development of the Study Book. New trainings (in‐site and on‐line are on the way). Students gain practical examples and need to fulfill exercises to approach managing art projects with social impact. The students analyze case study relating to art projects that aim for societal impact. As a result, the student is able to apply the conceptual and practical tools necessary to analyze, develop and manage projects on the context of art projects with societal impact.
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