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where is the story hearts and hands set? Is this a story that broadens our cultural horizons or helps us to understand experiences of those very different from us?​

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Answered by iloveesrabilgic
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It’s extraordinarily hard to measure and quantify an idea like

value in relation to culture, because the use of the term raises

so many questions – not least, ‘who is asking about value?’,  and

‘what does value mean?’. You can’t tick a box marked profundity.

This is important work for the arts and for museums. Cultural organisations want

to know their audiences better and to understand why they like what they like.

We need to go deeper than generalities, whether enthusiasms or criticisms. When

people say things like ‘I loved that book’, or ‘that theatre makes excellent work’, or

‘that band changed my life’ - what does that actually mean?  Further, politicians

require us to justify taxpayer investment, but how do we capture for them the

power of culture on the individual?

These are hard questions, and coloured by subjectivity, but we should not avoid

them if we are to better understand and articulate the essential contribution that

the arts make to all our lives.

In the past, the question of value has been considered by academics through describing two types of impacts: those where culture makes a contribution to wider

policy areas (such as supporting economic growth, health and education) and

those which are associated with benefits to the individual (like happiness or inspiration). These differing areas of value have been described as ‘instrumental’ and

‘intrinsic.’

Most people simply don’t think about culture in this way, of course and neither is

this thinking particularly helpful to the Arts Council’s mission and goals. Would it

ever be meaningful to talk about funding an excellent museum that had no effect

on the world around it?

FOREWORD

ALAN DAVEY

Chief Executive, Arts Council England

UNDERSTANDING the value and impacts of cultural experiences

However, we cannot ignore this ‘instrumental’ and ‘intrinsic’ debate and the way  it has shaped the current body of research. Earlier this year, the Arts Council  published The value of arts and culture to people and society, a review of the  existing literature on the impact arts and culture can have on, for example, health,  education and social cohesion – those benefits that may be seen as ‘instrumental’. This was limited in scope, but it did show that there is a considerable body of  research literature available on the subject – but also many gaps. There is a lack  of data, for example, about the economic benefits of museums and libraries, and  about the importance of the arts to the creative industries, particularly in regard  to innovation.  It also showed that we lack longitudinal studies of the health benefits of participation in the arts, and comparative studies of the effects of participation in the arts  as opposed to say, participation in sport. We cannot demonstrate why the arts are  unique in what they do.  As a result of this research, we decided for the first time, to provide research  funding to plug some of these gaps in our knowledge about both ‘instrumental’  and ‘intrinsic’ benefits.  We asked WolfBrown to undertake this international literature review and to help  us understand how others have considered this question. The focus for the report  was on academically-robust research and influential policy papers from the past  twenty years. Like any literature review, the range was restricted. It would be impossible to explore all the possible contributions to this debate in recent years, let  alone the historical or philosophical contexts.  There are a number of other projects in the UK that aim to add to our knowledge  in this area, including the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Cultural Value  Project and the Warwick Commission on the Future of Cultural Value.  These  projects will all help shape how we understand the value and impact of our work.  We will use the lessons of these projects, along with this report, to explore what  practical steps we might take to shape the evaluation of our activities. Further  research and testing of new ideas will complement our current methods of  measuring individual impact, and this report’s Coda describes some exciting  ongoing activity in this area.  Our aim in commissioning this review is to shed light on this debate, and to  enliven it. A full picture depends on the contribution of diverse voices, and we  hope readers will add theirs, to help us better understand and articulate the value  and impacts of cultural experiences.

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