Arting Health for Impact: Botswana, South Africa and India (360G-Wellcome-208516_Z_17_Z)

£100,000

The project will explore the potential and efficacy of using street art and colllaborative design to engage the public on science and health matters in Botswana, India and South Africa. It will forge collaborations between biomedical communities and artists to install culturally-relevant and sensitive arts installations as science-health engagement in these countries. The generic hypothesis is that biomedical professionals, artists or community members, in isolation, are not capacitated to design or manage a pre-emptive health communication strategy focused on engagement. In essence, artists will be the intermediary between biomedicine and communities/public, these 3 bodies of knowledge are considered to be complimentary and necessary in the context of public health. Residency programmes between these 3 groups will allow artists to perform a visual art performance with better understanding of specific illnesses/science to incorporate in real-time art installations. The project will track immediate and retained knowledge of a sample of the audience members in each country as measure of evaluation. It will explore best practice in each country, as the premptive step to scaling the project to additional countries. Outputs: 1. Art residencies 2. Street art installations in public spaces 3. Publication 4. Photography and videography documentation 5. Online media platforms

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 100000
Applicant Surname Mamela
Approval Committee Public Engagement Fund (Small Awards) Committee
Award Date 2017-06-30T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2016/17
Grant Programme: Title Public Engagement Fund Small
Internal ID 208516/Z/17/Z
Lead Applicant Mr Abraham Mamela
Partnership Value 100000
Planned Dates: End Date 2019-03-05T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2017-10-05T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country Botswana
Region International