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Arts and Policy City Certificate

Doris Sommer

2022 English Equality & Equity Health & Wellbeing Participation & Engagement

Art has often been overlooked as fuel for development. Considered as either decoration or a collectible luxury, art has been narrowly understood as a product of culture rather than as the dynamic process of making. If culture means only a legacy of shared sites and beliefs that bond communities, the bridging capacity is forfeited. Making new artistic projects can bridge diverse communities and foster social capital through the development of skills and collaboration.
The Certificate in Arts and Policy is designed to enhance the capacity of city* governments to design and implement high-impact projects through the power of participatory arts. The Certificate is based on evidence that coordination across municipal functions and incorporation of broad-based participation in the arts can drive community impact in areas ranging from climate change, to public health, immigration, transportation, and education.
Each of these challenges is complex or “wicked,” meaning that each is transversal rather than delimited to an area. One challenge engages all the others: security, education, environment, public health, employment, integration of immigrants are all interdependent. Programs that address these and other challenges facing local governments must then recognize and leverage that interdependence in order to be effective. Like the global Sustainable Development Goals identified by the UN, city-centered goals require coordination among the range of particular areas.

Doris Sommer

Professor, Director of Cultural Agents Initiative/ Harvard University

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies. She is founder of “Cultural Agents,” an Initiative at Harvard and an NGO dedicated to reviving the civic mission of the Humanities. Sommer’s academic and outreach promotes development through arts and humanities, specifically through “Pre-Texts” arts-based literacy, and Renaissance Now, for decision makers to harness the power of arts for social development. Her books include Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America (1991) about novels that consolidated new republics; Proceed with Caution when Engaged by Minority Literature (1999); Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education (2004) for times of immigration; and The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities (2014). Sommer has enjoyed and is dedicated to developing good public school education. She has a B.A. from New Jersey’s Douglass College for Women, and Ph.D. from Rutgers University.

Arts and Policy City Certificate
Doris Sommer

Rethinking a Police Station as Civic Space
Emre Güzel, Emre Karagöz

Tackling Gender and Racial Inequality in Urban Spaces
Leticia Sabino, Louise Uchoa

“Call Frida“ to Save Women from Feminicide and Gender Violence
Ana Rosa Campos, Emile Ribeiro

Empowering Low-Income Families as Agents of Change
Adriana Rasip, Palvindran Jayram, Sonia Jalal

Nutritious Music to Combat Childhood Obesity
Claudio Canales, Gabriela Hidalgo Anaiz

Patient-Focused Procurement: How Do You Do It in Health?
Brian Holch Kristensen

Supporting Cultural Placemaking Across a Region
Alison Clark, Janet Stewart, Claire Tymon, Nick Malyan

Catalysing Culture for Social Inclusion
Daniela Tomaz

Using Emotion to Drive Behaviour Change for Healthy Rivers
Helge Peters

Connecting Cities to Forests for Conservation, Restoration and Mutual Benefit
Scott Francisco

“An Integrated Approach to Tackling Homelessness “
Alexis Vargas

Embedding Strategic Learning in Local Governments
Irmak Ekin Karel, Elina Järvelä, Rusudan Zhozhadze

Transforming Lives, Transforming Organisations: Unlocking Creativity and Collaboration in the Public Sector
Luana Faria, Isabela Blumm, Julio Medeiros

Tax and Transparency: The Treasury Map Approach
Luciana Borges, Antônio Ricardo Góis

The Office of Community Participation: Shifting Organisational Culture
Tessza Udvarhelyi

In-house Consulting: Empowering the Public Sector in Europe
Anja Tannhäuser, Claus Wechselmann, Irene Piki, George Panteli

Motivating Young Prisoners by Thinking Differently
Nina Timmers, Lotte de Haan

Revitalizing a Heritage Site Through the Lens of Environmental and Social Justice

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Benedikt John, Vincent Novak, Malte Ricklefsen, Caroline Masabo, Ulrich Holzbaur, Stephan Wolter

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Sonja Reinhold, Elias Bender, Christian Sauer

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