Artworks are relevant to all stages of the policymaking cycle, from agenda-setting to implementation to evaluation, according to research by SRG Bennett.
This is the fourth article for a research project enquiring into the possible role of art in policymaking. The previous article described the six stages of a cycle for how policies are created, including stages such as “agenda setting” and “implementation”. It described six effects of the arts on policy, for example “emotional impact” and “creating dialogical space”. It concluded by setting these two typologies against each other to arrive at a 6 x 6 matrix exploring the roles that art can play at points across the policy process.
This article situates real life artworks in the art-policy matrix. It starts by describing two case studies - Blue Planet II and The Museum of Extraordinary Objects - in more detail, before outlining nineteen other artworks, all which, in some way, link to policy. This provides grist for deeper analysis in the next... Keep reading on SRG Bennett.
This is the fourth article for a research project enquiring into the possible role of art in policymaking. The previous article described the six stages of a cycle for how policies are created, including stages such as “agenda setting” and “implementation”. It described six effects of the arts on policy, for example “emotional impact” and “creating dialogical space”. It concluded by setting these two typologies against each other to arrive at a 6 x 6 matrix exploring the roles that art can play at points across the policy process.
This article situates real life artworks in the art-policy matrix. It starts by describing two case studies - Blue Planet II and The Museum of Extraordinary Objects - in more detail, before outlining nineteen other artworks, all which, in some way, link to policy. This provides grist for deeper analysis in the next... Keep reading on SRG Bennett.