Does YSP Make You Happy? Investigating Situated Narratives of Wellbeing
at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Claire Booth-Kurpnieks
2020
University of Huddersfield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park
2020
University of Huddersfield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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Keywords: observer, critical friend, arms-length, mapping with visitors, narrative inquiry with visitors, participant-observation with staff members, ethnography, research workshops with visitors, public engagement events with students, staff briefings, evaluation and development with staff members, sculpture park, gallery, West Yorkshire
This thesis investigates the situated experiences of
wellbeing at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park through the collection and collation
of intersecting wellbeing narratives with visitors. It places these experiences
within their biographical, temporal, and social contexts in order to illuminate
their specificity and contingency; and to explore the environmental and
aesthetic conditions under which such experiences can occur and be made
meaningful.