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Be the Nature: Enhancing Nature Connectedness Through Art Museum Pedagogy

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This case study is part of the “Art-based services for tourism” project, 2019–2021, funded by European Regional Development Fund. The project focuses on developing pedagogical programs and services that art targeted and marketed for tourists and through art mactivities and products by artists, crafters and designers in Lapland. The project supports artists and art gallery and art museum enterprises to collaborate with tourism industry and better mediate creative tourism services for tourism agencies. Arts based research methods as well as action research approach is implemented in this development in many ways. Focus on the development work is on including arts-based methods for meaningful and transformative tourism experiences and celebrating diversity of local cultures and people.

Keywords: action research ; art education ; Art Museum Pedagogy ; art-based research ; arts-based action research ; arts-based method ; cultural sustainability ; environmental education ; Nature Connectedness ; photography ; posthumanism ; tourism service ; transformative experience

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Be the Nature: Enhancing Nature Connectedness Through Art Museum Pedagogy
Intellect , 111 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789389135_11
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  23. Raatikainen, K. J. , Juhola, K. , Huhmarniemi, M. , & Peña-Lagos, H. (2020). “Face the cow”: Reconnecting to nature and increasing capacities for pro-environmental agency. Ecosystems and People, 16(1), 273–289. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2020.1817151
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  29. Ylirisku, H. (2021). Reorienting environmental art education [Doctoral dissertation, Aalto University]. Harald Herlin Learning Centre. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-64-0245-1

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