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This toolkit is intended to help artists and arts researchers to plan, organise, document and evaluate participatory arts projects in different contexts. Its publication evolved in the context of a Europe-wide research project funded by the EU Research and Innovation programme Horizon 2020. This research project – Acting on the Margins: Arts as Social Sculpture (AMASS) – is an arts-based three-year project (2020-2023) that aims to bring people based in different European contexts together with artists to work collaboratively on creative and experimental research. Through participatory approaches conducted in new artistic productions and research projects, AMASS explores and analyses the role of the arts in engaging with societal challenges and evaluating the societal impact of the arts. It also addresses the marginalisation of certain groups in society by analysing power imbalances and exploring artistic, pedagogical and other ways of promoting inclusive strategies and sharing the benefits of innovation and service solutions. The many strategies adopted by different AMASS partners call for the involvement of various stakeholders like NGOs, artists, regional arts advocates, community members and others in decision-making tactics and forum group discussions revolving around social needs and constraints. Strongly embedded in the value of alternative knowledge systems and the belief that the arts can initiate significant transformations in policy and perceptions, AMASS is intended as a catalyst for change in various contexts, and multi-disciplinary results emerging from an evaluation of its testbed will contribute towards policy recommendations at local, regional and international levels. This toolkit shares many of the challenges and enthusiasm for the arts that characterise AMASS and its activities. ; peer-reviewed

As a response to increasing social tensions, arts-based interventions have been performed in Europe for decades, to address burning issues, strengthen identities and create communities. AMASS projects target similar objectives, so the identification of good practice from the last decade was important to construct a solid foundation for the development of new interventions. With resources and publications included in the information collected, this database provides an authentic knowledge repository for researchers. Using the data, they can identify motivations, philosophies, modes of engagement and impact of arts-based social interventions from a comparative, geographically balanced and multidisciplinary perspective. We invited AMASS partners from seven countries to identify relevant past and ongoing projects and evaluate them in their own sociocultural setting. The research database that we built, consists of 133 standardised project descriptions. Regrettably, not all of the significant interventions had been fully documented by their promoters, so for this deliverable, we selected 10 good practices per country, 70 in all. After a discussion with prospective informants (AMASS partners) about data collection methodology and topics of importance, we employed a survey method through template that included the following themes: 1. Descriptive data of the projects: country of execution, title, website, financing institution and grant type, project co-ordinator and the co-ordinating institution. 2. Project features: time frame, target population (age, educational level or employment type, special needs etc.); developmental objectives (development of attitudes, skills, values, increase of well-being, use therapeutic functions of art, targeted policies and type of civic engagement envisioned, social / cultural inclusion etc.). Descriptions also include the nature of intervention, working arrangements, art forms involved, eventual connection to school / higher education curriculum. 3. Innovative character of the project in addressing societal challenges: methodological innovations, prizes and other recognitions won. 4. Assessment of results: methods and results achieved. 5. Sustainability: one of the most important features of an educational intervention is its survival through followers of innovative methods after the supported project had been finished. For ongoing projects, foreseen sustainability or reasons for unsustainability were described. 6. Publications about the project: research reports in journals, teaching aids and learning tools, and other dissemination material. Our database complements Deliverable 1.3: A comprehensive literature review, a state-of-the-art review of research-relevant material regarding the social impact of the arts in the partner countries of the AMASS project. A detailed analysis of information retrieved from the database is provided in D1.2, Comparative policy analysis and evaluation of artistic projects. This introduction gives a summary of findings and explains how stakeholders who intend to support socially challenged communities may utilise the database in the future. ; peer-reviewed