• Time for Cultural Mediation
  • Foreword by Carmen Mörsch
  • Foreword by Andrew Holland
• 1 What is Cultural Mediation?
  Quick Reads:
  • 1.0 Intro
  • 1.1 “Kulturvermittlung” as collective term in German-speaking regions
  • 1.2 Médiation culturelle
  • 1.3 English terminology
  • 1.4 Italian terminology
  • 1.CP Changing Perspectives
  • 1.RL For Reading at Leisure
• 2 Cultural Mediation for Whom?
  Quick Reads:
  • 2.0 Intro
  • 2.1 Target-group categories
  • 2.2 Critique of target-group thinking
  • 2.3 Other approaches to defining audiences
  • 2.4 Cultural mediation for institutional development and renewal
  • 2.CP Changing Perspectives
  • 2.RL For Reading at Leisure
• 3 What is Transmitted?
  Quick Reads:
  • 3.0 Intro
  • 3.1 Works and productions as subject-matter
  • 3.2 Artistic techniques as subject-matter
  • 3.3 Institutions as subject-matter
  • 3.4 Art as a system as subject matter
  • 3.5 Artistic processes in business
  • 3.6 Artistic processes in social, pedagogic and activist contexts
  • 3.7 Learning methods as subject-matter
  • 3.CP Changing Perspectives
  • 3.RL For Reading at Leisure
• 4 How is Cultural Mediation Carried Out?
  Quick Reads:
  • 4.0 Intro
  • 4.1 Participation level: receptive
  • 4.2 Participation level: interactive
  • 4.3 Participation level: participative
  • 4.4 Participation level: collaborative
  • 4.5 Participation level: demand-based
  • 4.6 Teaching and learning concepts: instructionist
  • 4.7 Teaching and learning concepts: action-oriented
  • 4.8 Teaching and learning concepts: constructivist and social-constructivist
  • 4.CP Changing Perspectives
  • 4.RL For Reading at Leisure
• 5 What Does Cultural Mediation Do?
  Quick Reads:
  • 5.0 Intro
  • 5.1 Affirmative function of cultural mediation
  • 5.2 Reproductive function of cultural mediation
  • 5.3 Deconstructive function of cultural mediation
  • 5.4 Reformative function of cultural mediation
  • 5.5 Transformative function of cultural mediation
  • 5.CP Changing Perspectives
  • 5.RL For Reading at Leisure
• 6 Cultural Mediation: Why (Not)?
  Quick Reads:
  • 6.0 Intro
  • 6.1 Rationale: cultural mediation has an influence on the economy
  • 6.2 Rationale: cultural mediation promotes cognitive performance
  • 6.3 Rationale: Expanding cultural mediation as a matter of fiscal responsibility
  • 6.4 Rationale: Cultural mediation as an instrument for inclusion
  • 6.5 Rationale: The arts as universal educational good
  • 6.6 Rationale: Cultural mediation as means to actively contribute to shaping the arts
  • 6.7 Rationale: Cultural mediation to compensate for social injustice
  • 6.8 Objections to cultural mediation and its promotion
  • 6.CP Changing Perspectives
  • 6.RL For Reading at Leisure
• 7 Who “does” Cultural Mediation?
  Quick Reads:
  • 7.0 Intro
  • 7.1 Occupation: cultural mediator
  • 7.2 Conditions of employment in cultural mediation
  • 7.3 (Swiss) Training options and professional associations of cultural mediators
  • 7.4 Volunteer work in cultural mediation
  • 7.5 Cultural mediation as a research field
  • 7.6 Funding of cultural mediation in Switzerland
  • 7.CP Changing Perspectives
  • 7.RL For Reading at Leisure
• 8 Good Cultural Mediation?
  Quick Reads:
  • 8.0 Intro
  • 8.1 Quality in cultural mediation: current activities
  • 8.2 Critiques of quality management in cultural mediation
  • 8.3 Attempt to define a framework of criteria for evaluating cultural mediation
  • 8.4 Criteria for a primarily affirmative cultural mediation
  • 8.5 Criteria for a primarily reproductive cultural mediation
  • 8.6 Criteria for a primarily deconstructive cultural mediation
  • 8.7 Criteria for a primarily transformative cultural mediation
  • 8.CP Changing Perspectives
  • 8.RL For Reading at Leisure
• 9 Transmitting Cultural Mediation?
  Quick Reads:
  • 9.0 Intro
  • 9.1 Guiding questions for use in the documentation of cultural mediation
  • 9.2 Challenges in transmitting cultural mediation
  • 9.3 Cultural mediation in this publication
  • 9.CP Changing Perspectives
  • 9.RL For Reading at Leisure
• Service
  Case Studies:
  • SC Intro
  • SC.1 Case Study 1
  • SC.2 Case Study 2
  • Glossary
  • Resource Pool
  • Literature and Links
  • List of bookmarks
  • PDF Download
  • Bibliographic information and legal notice

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Bibliographic Information and Legal Notice

Time for Cultural Mediation

An Online Publication

Published by the Institute for Art Education of Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Commissioned by Pro Helvetia, as the output of the research track of its Arts and Audiences Programme (2009 – 2012).

Responsible for research track of the Arts and Audiences programme
Carmen Mörsch and Anna Chrusciel

Authors

“Quick Reads” and “For Reading at Leisure” texts
Carmen Mörsch, Stephan Fürstenberg (“For Reading at Leisure” text in chapter 9)

Case Studies
Anna Chrusciel

Changing Perspectives
Corinne Doret Baertschi, Marie-Hélène Boulanger, Margrit Bürer, Franziska Dürr, Denise Felber, Hans Ulrich Glarner, André Grieder, Nicole Grieve, Fanny Guichard, Eszter Gyarmathy, Gunhild Hamer, Anina Jendreyko, Nadia Keckeis, Tim Kramer, Reto Luder, Felicity Lunn, microsillons, Gianna Mina, Irena Müller-Brozovic, Murielle Perritaz, Thomas Pfiffner, Jeanne Pont, Raphaëlle Renken, Urs Rietmann, Meris Schüppach, Sara Smidt, Anne-Catherine Sutermeister, Gallus Staubli, Nathalie Tacchella, Barbara Waldis, Claude-Hubert Tatot, Regula von Büren, David Vuillaume, Ruth Widmer; Mediation working group at Pro Helvetia: Marianne Burki, Jelena Delic, Christian Gyger, Anna Schlossbauer, Gabrielle Weber; Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Culture and Society Section: Stefan Koslowski, David Vitali

Glossary entries
Catrin Seefranz

Editing and translation

Editing and proofreading, German
Hubert Bächler, Büro für Sprache, Zurich

German to French translation
Marièlle Larré, Mots Clés, Zurich
in collaboration with Anne Maurer, Michel Schnarenberger and Christian Viredaz

French to German translation
Sabine Dröschel, Attalens

Copy-editing and terminology, French
Nicole Grieve, Sion

Proof-reading, French
proverb, Biel

German to Italian translation
Peter Schrembs, Coop Terziario, Locarno

Italian to German translations
Geneviève Bernard-Poncioni, Pianezzo

Editing and proof-reading, Italian
proverb, Biel

German to English translation
proverb, Biel

Editing and terminology, English
Janna Graham

Proofreading, English
proverb, Biel

Design

Nicole Boillat, Judith Dobler (Edit gestaltet, Basel), ssistance with animations: Bruno Steiner

We would like to thank all of the authors of the Changing Perspectives texts, Eva Richterich and Christian Gyger from Pro Helvetia for the constructive editorial collaboration on the “Quick Reads” texts, Marielle Larré and Peter Schrembs for their patience, Nicole Grieve for her great dedication, Hubert Bächler, Nicole Boillat and Judith Dobler for their thoughtful collaboration, and Catrin Seefranz and Stephan Fürstenberg for their contributions to the texts.

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