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applied-aesthetics.org
 Artiscycle is a project to further anunderstanding of the role of art inbuilding community, creative problemsolving and situated learning.
project developed bythe institute for appliedaesthetics
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 Database Creation
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Contact 
 Artiscycle is a project being developed by artist Chris-topher Lee Kennedy. For more information visit onlineor email:
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 Artiscycle: a search for the intersections of art,education and community.A project to connect artists and citizens to collaborative education and project development tools. About Artiscycle:
The Artiscycle project is collecting stories, ideas andtools from artists, designers and citizens at the fore-  front of collaborative and interdisciplinary art prac- tice. The idea is to create a dialogue between commu- nities in need and creative solutions from artists anddesigners around the world.The goal of the Artiscycle project is to connect artistsand citizens to collaborative education and project development tools and motivate a new way of think- ing about art as a tool for creative problem solvingand learning.1.
 Research + Documentation
 Project Components:
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Tool Creation
Cataloging examples of effective art practic- es, frameworks and strategies.Creating an opensource database of docu- mented practices and examples. Developing tools for project development and educational applications.
 
The Artiscycle project willcatalog examples of art practices,  frameworks and strategies that address commonsocio-cultural issues.
 ArtistsDesignersOrganizationsProjectsCollectivesScientists
 The Artiscycle project will document ef-fective examples of artistic practices thatcan serve as models for educational andproject development tools. The docu-mentation process will result in:
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Case Studies
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Interviews
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 Video/Photo Documentation Through the documentation process -the Artiscycle project will gather input anddata from a broad spectrum of organiza-tions, artists, designers, institutions andart collectives. The objective is to identifycommonalities and patterns in approach,
delivery and implementation of specic
art practices. These will serve as modelsand frameworks to use in developing acomprehensive online database and aseries of effective tools for particpants. The Artiscycle project will be conductingapplied research that will aid in translat-ing artistic practices into frameworks foreducation and creative problem solving.Primary research areas include:
 Applied Aesthetics
- Aesthetics aretypically concerned with beauty, artisticimpact, or appearance. Applied aesthet-ics are creative practices that addresssocio-cultural issues and effectively bring
attention to or inuence the patterns
and routines that have attributed to ourdecline ecologically, economically andculturally.
Situated Learning
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A conceptpioneered by Jean Lave and EtienneWegner that frames learning as a socialprocess whereby knowledge is co-con-structed through activity and knowingwithin a community of practice.In tangent with documentation and re-search, the Artiscycle project will developcrucial partnerships with similarly alignedorganizations and institutions. The goal isto avoid recreating any existing projectsand to be as inclusive as possible. Thisoutreach will be used to gather input andsuggestions for the development of the Artscycle database and the project as awhole.Organizations, artists and individuals willbe given the opportunity to become fea-tured members of the Artiscycle network which will eventually create a collabora-tive network of artists, designers, educa-tors and citizens interested in harnessingapplied aesthetics to creatively solveproblems or attend to emergent commu-nity challenges.
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Step One: Conduct research intoapplied aesthetics and situatedlearning.Step Two: Document effectiveexamples of creative strategiesthat address socio-cultural is- sues.Step Three: Create partnershipswith organizations, artists andothers that will help form a col- laborative network.
Institutions
www.applied-aesthetics.org/artiscycle 2part one
 
1. search the artiscycle databasefor effective art practices
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artists/designers
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educators
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activists
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institutions
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organizations
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scientists/experts
database search
The Artiscycle project willestablish an online open-source databasefor participants to search projects, adapt effectivemodels and create custom educational & project tools.
system diagram
3. the platform provides tools torealize proposed solutions
design/build
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curriculum +edu. resourcesawareness
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policy campaigns
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tech/media (etc.)
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tools and strategies:translation
2. the artiscycle platform willtranslate these art practices
“I can’t engage my community. Howdo I visualize this for my students? My 
 neighborhood is being gentrifed. How
do I get a local policy enacted?” 
Every good project or initiative startswith a great question or problem. The Artiscycle platform is a creative take onproblem solving - using art as a frame-work for solutions. Participants whenlogged onto the Artiscycle platform will
rst choose a focus area based on their
problem or question. This will link theminto Artiscycle’s evolving database of 
examples and project proles.
example arenas:
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Ecological
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Education
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Social/Cultural
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Health
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Economic
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Policy
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Design
Start with a problem or question:
 The strategies and frameworks behindthe accessed examples of aestheticpractice are presented to the partici-pant.
 The platform identies patterns in ap
-proach, delivery and outcome from the
aesthetic practices identied through the
database. Participants can generate areport based on their focus area - out-lining effective frameworks to initiateand achieve an objective. This providesparticipants a blueprint of strategies andmethodologies that can be used to de-velop projects and education programs.
example strategies:
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Public Engagement
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Project-Based
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Exhibition/Intervention
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Policy-Driven
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Media/Tech Driven
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Education/Awareness
Translation of practices
 The strategies and frameworks behindthe accessed examples of aestheticpractice are presented to the partici-pant.
 After participants have identied aneffective strategy for fullling the needs
of their project or mission followed byproject incubation and implementation.Participants will be able to post project
proles that can be accessed by a net
-work of artists, educators and citizensinterested in collaborative practices. This community is intended to assist indelivering and expanding the reach of the newly developing projects.
example outcomes:
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Restored Ecologies
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Learning and Teaching opportunities
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Policy reform
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Improvement in Health and well-being
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Community involvement and cohesion
 Projects Incubate and tools provided
www.applied-aesthetics.org/artiscycle 3part two
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