PAP0922 - Integrando Cultura em Comunidades Sustentáveis: Uma análise comparativa entre Canadá e Europa

A comunicação pretende apresentar alguns dos primeiros resultados de um projecto dedicado à análise comparativa entre o Canadá e a Europa, denominado 'Culture in Sustainable Communities: Improving the Integration of Culture in Community Sustainability Policy and Planning in Canada and Europe' (financiado pelo Governo do Canadá, 2001-2012). Este projecto de investigação multidisciplinar integra as perspectivas das ciências políticas (governança e administração pública), política cultural e planeamento, património e sociologia. O projecto analisa as estratégias, as inovações e os desafios colocados na integração da cultura em iniciativas de planeamento local com especial atenção a iniciativas de desenvovimento sustentável de comunidades. Busca igualmente a identificação de conceitos-chave, linhas de gestão e abordagens estratégicas que implementem sensibilidades e consciências culturais, enquadramentos holísticos de planeamento para comunidades sustentáveis, gestão territorial e desenvolvimento. A investigação envolve análise documental, entrevistas e inquéritos destinados a investigadores e profissionais no Canadá e na Europa. A apresentação apresenta os resultados globais deste estudo, tendo em consideração e reflectindo a situação portuguesa em comparação com esforços realizados neste âmbito no Canadá e noutros países europeus. O projecto conta com a coaboração de outros investigadores do CES de forma a obter um quadro comparativo nacional durante o período 2012-2013. Apresentação em Inglês e em Português. Investigadores do Projecto: Dra. Nancy Duxbury, Investigadora PhD, CES Dr. João Mascarenhas Mateus, Investigador PhD, CES Ms. M. Sharon Jeannotte, Research Fellow, Centre on Governance, University of Ottawa Dr. Caroline Andrew, Director, Centre on Governance, University of Ottawa Apresentadores: Dra. Duxbury e Dr. Mascarenhas Mateus

nome: Dr. Nancy Duxbury
afiliação institucional: Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES), Universidade de Coimbra
área de formação: comunicação (em política cultural) [Simon Fraser University, Canadá)
interesses de investigação: cultura e sustentabilidade, centrando-se nas práticas de planeamento cultural das cidades Europeias e de integração cultural no âmbito de iniciativas de sustentabilidade urbanas

Dr. João Mascarenhas Mateus is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies and a member of the Cities, Cultures and Architecture research group. He holds a MSc in Architecture from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and a PhD in Civil Engineering issued by the Technical University of Lisbon (2001) and prepared at the University ‘La Sapienza’ of Rome, Italy. He has worked as an expert for the General Directorate X – Culture from the European Commission on the evaluation of projects of Preservation of Cultural Heritage. In Rome, he designed and directed several restoration projects for the Portuguese Institute and for the Portuguese Pontifical College. He was technical coordinator of the Candidature of Baixa Pombalina of Lisbon to the World Heritage List and senior advisor to the Lisbon City Council Councillor and to the Lisbon Mayor for historical neighbourhoods policies (2003-2006). One of his current fields of research is the relation between urban history and image.

M. Sharon Jeannotte is Senior Fellow at the Centre on Governance of the University of Ottawa. From 2005 to 2007, she was Senior Advisor to the Canadian Cultural Observatory in the Department of Canadian Heritage. From 1999 to 2005, she was the Manager of International Comparative Research in the Department’s Strategic Research and Analysis Directorate. She has published research on a variety of subjects, including the impact of value change on Canadian society, international definitions of social cohesion, the points of intersection between cultural policy and social cohesion, the role of culture in building sustainable communities, culture and volunteering, and immigration and cultural citizenship. In 2005, she co-edited with Caroline Andrew, Monica Gattinger, and Will Straw a volume entitled Accounting for Culture: Thinking through Cultural Citizenship, published by the University of Ottawa Press. In 2011, she co-edited with Nancy Duxbury a special issue of the journal Culture and Local Governance on the subject of culture and sustainable communities.

Dr. Caroline Andrew is the Director of the Centre on Governance at the University of Ottawa. Her research areas centre on local government social and cultural policies, and particularly on the relations between local equity seeking groups and their impact on social and cultural policy at the local level. Among recent research projects, she is part of a research team looking at the use and production of non-English, non-French media in the Ottawa region. In 2005 she co-edited with Monica Gattinger, Sharon Jeannotte, and Will Straw a volume entitled Accounting for Culture: Thinking through Cultural Citizenship, published by the University of Ottawa Press. Caroline Andrew is on the steering committee of the City for All Women Initiative and chair of the Board of Women in Cities International.