Culture pour tous

CULTURAL MEDIATION RESEARCH GROUP

Cultural Mediation Research Group
Culture pour tous / Centre de recherche sur les innovations sociales / UQAM

In the fall of 2006, Culture pour tous joined forces with the Alliance de recherche universités-communautés en économie sociale (ARUC-ÉS) and the Service aux collectivités de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (SAC / UQAM) in order to set up a working group aimed at developing professional and academic expertise in the field of cultural mediation.

The research group was established to respond to the need for information and training expressed by numerous cultural and municipal organizations and representatives, who are seeking to develop new relations with diverse populations while putting forward new approaches to the appropriation of artistic processes and cultural productions. Among its objectives, the partnership aims to enrich professional practices in cultural mediation; put into place the conditions, opportunities and sites for meetings between the various actors; and mobilize the cultural and academic sectors to help develop Quebec expertise in this field.

 

Accomplishments

(texts in French only)

Trainning Committee – Worshops for various regional cultural councils and
the Villes et Villages d’art (VVAP) network).
Production of various training plans. (PDF)

Seminars

Seminar on Cultural Mediation – March 26, 2010
Plenary and Workshops discussions on case studies in the cultural, community and municipal sectors.
Report (PDF)

Quels territoires pour les acteurs de la médiation culturelle? – November 31, December 1, 2009
Content Committee – Preparation of the international colloquium Les Entretiens Jacques-Cartier in collaboration with Médiation culturelle Association and Espace Pandora.
Proceedings of the colloquium

La Rencontre – December 4-5, 2008
Content Committee – Preparation of the international colloquium on cultural mediation held in December 2008.
Proceedings of the colloquium

Seminar – December 6, 2007
Presentation of the Group research to 30 representatives of the cultural, community and
municipal sectors.
Report (PDF)

Texts and researches

Le Répertoire raisonné des activités de médiation culturelle à Montréal (2008-2009)
Production of a typological study on the projects developed in 2005-2008 within the three mediation programs of the City of Montréal and the Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine (MCCCF).
Final report, December 2009 (PDF)

Research and Survey (2007)
Production of a special issue of Laboratoire d’animation et de recherche culturelles (LARC), featuring articles by seven researchers and a summary of the survey conducted among nine Quebec arts and community organizations.
Regards croisés sur la médiation culturelle (PDF)
Interview files (PDF)

Lexique et bibliographie (2007)
Review of literature on cultural and artistic mediation
Glossary and bibliography (PDF)

 

Members of the research group

- Anouk Bélanger, Professor, Department of Sociology, UQAM
- Denis Bussières, Coordinator, ARUC-ÉS and RQRP-ÉS
- Jean-Marc Fontan, Professor, Department of Sociology, UQAM; Co-director ARUC-ÉS and RQRP-ÉS
- Nathalie Casemajor Loustau, Ph.D, Communication Studies, UQAM and Université Lille 3
- Louis Jacob, Professor, Department of Sociology, UQAM
- Louise Julien, Professor, Department of Education and Vocational Training, UQAM
- Jean-Marie Lafortune, Professor, Department of Social and Public Communication, UQAM
- Ève Lamoureux, Postdoctoral fellow in social sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles
- Eva Quintas, Projects director, Culture pour tous
- Danièle Racine, Cultural development agent, Direction du développement culturel, Ville de Montréal
- Louise Sicuro, President and CEO of Culture pour tous