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Description of initiative
Luoghi Comuni is based on the recognition of the effectiveness of cultural and creative activities as a factor in promoting individual and collective well-being. Luoghi Comuni enables a group of people to enjoy cultural opportunities and actively contribute on the accessibility of these spaces, benefiting the cultural organizations involved and the whole community. The goal of the project is to facilitate the identification of kind places that enable and generate well-being in collaboration with citizens with divers fragilities but also to collaborate with cultural organizations for improving their services.
Themes: Culture and...
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Cultural field
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Results, benefits, impact and lessons learnt
The survey group members seems to be more empowered by the responsabily given by their role and they are building social relationship within the group. The organizers believe they could act as antennas for other people in suggesting those centres as kind places for spending time.
In numbers:
- survey group: 14
- cultural centres: 9
- visits: 18 (2 for each centre)
Outcome
For the survey group:
- increase in social interactions
- increase in inclusion and participation
- increase of job opportunities
- increase in the number of outings for cultural and artistic pleasure
For cultural organizations:
- implementation of cultural centre services
- increase of awareness about meantal health
- enhancement of the cultural centre involved in the process
Impacts:
- decrease in marginalization
- increase of employements and the economic inpidendence
- spread of an integrate health support system recognized by the scientific community
- extension of cultural centres network that shares good practices and methodologies around the mental health theme (in the whole nation)
- increase in the perception of culture and art as a catalyst of individual and collective weel-beign
- increase in policy design
- increase in dissemination of tools for understanding mental health farilities and break the stigma