Members of the Research Group

  • Anouk Bélanger, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM)
  • Geneviève Chicoine, Project Manager, Education sector
  • Nathalie Casemajor Loustau, Lecturer, Department of Social and Public Communication, UQAM
  • Heather Davis, Ph.d, Communication Studies, Université Concordia
  • Nadia Duguay, Co-director, Exeko
  • Jean-Marc Fontan, Professor, Department of Sociology, UQAM
  • Marie-Blanche Fourcade, Lecturer, Department of Art History, UQAM
  • Patricia Gauvin, Lecturer, Visual and Media Arts, UQAM
  • Louis Jacob, Professor, Department of Sociology, UQAM
  • Louise Julien, Professor, Department of Education and Vocational Training, UQAM
  • Jean-Marie Lafortune, Professor, Department of Social and Public Communication, UQAM
  • Ève Lamoureux, Professor, Department of Art History, UQAM
  • Isabelle Mahy, Professor, Department of Social and Public Communication, UQAM
  • Maryse Paquin, Professor, Département of leisures, culture and tourism, University of Québec in Trois-Rivières
  • Eva Quintas, Projects director, Culture pour tous
  • Danièle Racine, Cultural development agent, City of Montreal
  • Louise Sicuro, President and CEO of Culture pour tous
  • Mona Trudel, professeur, École des arts visuels et médiatiques, UQAM
  • Michel Vallée, Director, Service des arts et de la culture, City of Vaudreuil-Dorion

 

Saguenay

  • Constanza Camelo, Professor, Department of Arts, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
  • Gabrielle Desbiens, Cultural mediator, City of Saguenay
  • Marcelle Dubé, Professor, Department of social work, UQAC
  • Ariane Fortin, Cultural development agent, MRC de Fjord-du-Saguenay
  • Danielle Maltais, Professor, Department of social work, UQAC

Activities

3.1. Events
3.2. Cultural Mediation Research Group
3.3. Texts and studies
3.4. Publications

Eveille culture

NEW

Publication Section

La médiation culturelle
Le sens des mots et l’essence des pratiques

by Jean-Marie Lafortune

Cette publication est une réalisation du Groupe de recherche
sur la médiation culturelle.

 

3.1. Events

International Colloquia

Artistic Mediation & Managerial Innovation
December 5 and 6, 2011 (Montreal, Quebec)

International symposium organized in collaboration with le Département de communication sociale et publique
de l’Université de Montréal au Québec (UQAM).
See the website of the symposium.

Quels territoires pour les acteurs de la médiation culturelle?
November 31, December 1, 2009

Content Committee – Preparation of the international colloquium Les Entretiens Jacques-Cartier in collaboration with Médiation culturelle Association and Espace Pandora.
Proceedings of the colloquium

La rencontre – December 4-5, 2008
Content Committee – Preparation of the international colloquium on cultural mediation held in December 2008.
Proceedings and pages of the colloquium

 

La rencontre – September 15, 2006
Renouveler le rapport entre l’art, l’artiste et le citoyen
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
Report (French only)

 

Seminars

Journée d’étude et d’échanges sur la médiation culturelle à Ottawa – May 25, 2012
Séminaire professionnel organisé par Culture pour tous et Fête de la culture en collaboration avec la Fédération culturelle canadienne française et le Centre national des Arts. Voir l’horaire de la journée. Inscription gratuite, places limitées. Pour vous inscrire : cliquez ici

Journée d’étude et d’échanges sur la médiation culturelle au Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean – March 30, 2012
Professional seminar organized by the Mediation Department of Saguenay City « Éveille ma culture » in partership with the research groups CRISES et GRIR of the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, the Conseil régional de la culture et Culture pour tous.

Journée d’étude sur la médiation culturelle - November 28, 2011
Séminaire professionnel organisé en partenariat avec le Conseil provincial de sociétés culturelles à Fredericton.
Ordre du jour (PDF)

Seminar in Saguenay - April 8, 2011
Meeting with cultural, municipal and academic (UQAC) representatives in order to create a cross-disciplinary unit of cultural mediation in Saguenay City.

Seminar on Cultural Mediation – March 26, 2010
Plenary and Workshops discussions on case studies in the cultural, community and municipal sectors.
Report (PDF)

Seminar – December 6, 2007
Presentation of the Group research to 30 representatives of the cultural, community and
municipal sectors.
Report (PDF)

CRISES

3.2. Cultural Mediation Research Group

Culture pour tous / Centre de recherche sur les innovations sociales / UQÀM
forces with the Alliance de recherche universités-communautés en économie sociale (ARUC-ÉS) and the Université du Québec à Montréal’s Service aux collectivités (SAC/UQÀM) to set up a working group aimed at developing professional and academic expertise in the field of cultural mediation.

This group, called the Cultural Mediation Research Group (CMRG), was later joined by the Ville de Montréal’s Direction du développement culturel and is now headed by the Université du Québec à Montréal’s Centre de recherche sur les innovations sociales (CRISES).

The CMRG was established to respond to the need for information and training expressed by numerous cultural and municipal organizations and representatives, who are seeking to develop new relations with diverse populations while putting forward new approaches to the appropriation of artistic processes and cultural productions. Among its objectives, the partnership aims to enrich professional practices in cultural mediation; put into place the conditions, opportunities and sites for meetings between the various actors; and mobilize the cultural and academic sectors to help develop Quebec expertise in this field.

CMRG members have collaborated on research projects, documenting initiatives and case studies, organizing professional seminars and conferences, and offering retraining in cultural mediation.

Research Fields

1. Mediation practices: evaluation and issues

2. Social inclusion and diversity

3. Education

4. Art and managerial innovation

5. Changing artistic practices and participation

Texts and Studies

Le Répertoire raisonné des activités de médiation culturelle à Montréal (2008-2009)
In the fall of 2006, Culture pour tous joined Production of a typological study on the projects developed in 2005-2008 within the three mediation programs of the City of Montréal and the Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine (MCCCF).
Final report, December 2009 (PDF)

Regards croisés sur la médiation culturelle (2007)
Production of a special issue of Laboratoire d’animation et de recherche culturelles (LARC), featuring articles by seven researchers and a summary of the survey conducted among nine Quebec arts and community organizations.
Regards croisés sur la médiation culturelle (PDF)
Interview files (PDF)

Lexique et bibliographie (2007)
Review of literature on cultural and artistic mediation
Glossary and bibliography (PDF)

 

Publications

Eveille culture

La médiation culturelle
Le sens des mots et l’essence des pratiques
LAFORTUNE, Jean-Marie. La médiation culturelle : Le sens des mots et l’essence des pratiques, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2012, 248p.

Conjuguant débats théoriques et études de cas, cet ouvrage aborde les principaux enjeux que soulève la médiation culturelle à partir d’une approche sociohistorique. Véritable outil référence, ce livre saura intéresser aussi bien les intervenants culturels que les chercheurs et étudiants. Cette publication est une réalisation du Groupe de recherche sur la médiation culturelle.
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