{"id":5687,"date":"2025-09-10T14:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/mdwpress\/?p=5687"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:25:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:25:41","slug":"mdwp012-018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/mdwpress\/en\/mdwp012-018\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Don\u2019t We Discuss it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"subtitle\">How to Get the Evaluation of Music Mediation Activities out of its Procrustean Bed?<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"author\"><em>Irina Kirchberg<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1864-1610\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/mdwpress\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/orcid.png\" alt=\"orcid\" width=\"19\" height=\"19\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<head><\/p>\n<style>\n        .tsquotation strong {\n            font-weight: bold;\n        }\n        .tsquotation em \n            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id=\"zp-ID-5687-4511395-MFWP28GF\" data-zp-author-date='Kirchberg-2025' data-zp-date-author='2025-Kirchberg' data-zp-date='2025' data-zp-year='2025' data-zp-itemtype='bookSection' class=\"zp-Entry zpSearchResultsItem\">\n<div class=\"csl-bib-body\" style=\"line-height: 1.35; padding-left: 1em; text-indent:-1em;\">\n  <div class=\"csl-entry\">Kirchberg, Irina. 2025. \u201cWhy Don\u2019t We Discuss It? How to Get the Evaluation of Music Mediation Activities out of Its Procrustean Bed?\u201d In <i>Turning Social. The Social-Transformative Potential of Music Mediation<\/i>. mdwPress. <a title='Cite in RIS Format' class='zp-CiteRIS' data-zp-cite='api_user_id=4511395&item_key=MFWP28GF' href='javascript:void(0);'>Cite<\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .zp-Entry .zpSearchResultsItem -->\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .zp-zp-SEO-Content -->\n\t\t<\/div><!-- .zp-List -->\n\t<\/div><!--.zp-Zotpress-->\n\n\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"bdaia-toggle close\"><h4 class=\"bdaia-toggle-head toggle-head-open\"><span class=\"bdaia-sio bdaia-sio-angle-up\"><\/span><span class=\"txt\">Outline<\/span><\/h4><h4 class=\"bdaia-toggle-head toggle-head-close\"><span class=\"bdaia-sio bdaia-sio-angle-down\"><\/span><span class=\"txt\">Outline<\/span><\/h4><div class=\"toggle-content\"><p>\n<a href=\"#1\">Additional Load and Assessment Standardisation<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#2\">Research Interest and Research Questions<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#3\">Conclusion: Making evaluation a subject for debate<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#4\">Bibliography<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span class='bdaia-btns bdaia-btn-medium' style=\"background:#b2b2b2 !important;color:#000000 !important;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/mdwpress\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/10.1515_9783839425015-018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"color:#000000 !important;\">CHAPTER PDF <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/mdwpress\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/download-1459070_1280.png\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" alt=\"Download-Logo\" width=\"17\" height=\"17\"><\/a><\/span>\n<p>In Quebec and France, the implementation of music mediation activities depends on subsidies offered by arts councils, ministries of culture or social innovation, or donations from patrons. Evaluative practices have been appearing in the cultural sector since the 80s and 90s, with the development of project management practices accompanying the transformation of cultural policies now setting quantified targets. They seek to measure the \u2018performance\u2019 of cultural initiatives in order for them to be accountable to funding bodies (sponsors, patrons, etc.). The theme of evaluation is therefore systematically mentioned on the websites of organisations that promote local mediation activities. For example, <em>Culture pour tous<\/em> [Culture for all]<a href=\"#fn1\" class=\"footnote-ref\" id=\"fnref1\" role=\"doc-noteref\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a>, a well-known Quebec organisation, states:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"tsquotation\">Evaluation is a fascinating subject. In cultural mediation, as in any other field, evaluation helps to deepen activities, strengthen partnerships and even contribute to the achievement of objectives. (Pronovost and Harrison-Boisvert 2015, 1)<a href=\"#fn2\" class=\"footnote-ref\" id=\"fnref2\" role=\"doc-noteref\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In this context, is it possible to say that music mediation \u2013 a specific musical field of cultural mediation<a href=\"#fn3\" class=\"footnote-ref\" id=\"fnref3\" role=\"doc-noteref\"><sup>3<\/sup><\/a> \u2013 finds itself, as Jean-Marie Lafortune puts it, \u201cunder the yoke of neoliberalism\u201d (Lafortune 2019)? While the mediation process, in its \u201cidealised\u201d version, aims at \u201ca project of political transformation\u201d and lays \u201cthe foundations of an experimental democracy\u201d (Faget 2022, 433), this mediation process is then reduced to a pragmaticism, a technicality, an efficiency that \u201cmanages\u201d disputes in a short-term perspective when mediation is \u201ctossed about by the gusts of the market\u201d (ibid.). In short, is it possible to meet the evaluation demands of funding organisations (often governed by the laws of the market) without betraying the political and social project of music mediation? This question is particularly relevant in Quebec, since one of its specificities (especially in Montreal) is that the production of knowledge about cultural mediation is based on a partnership research mechanism.<a href=\"#fn4\" class=\"footnote-ref\" id=\"fnref4\" role=\"doc-noteref\"><sup>4<\/sup><\/a> As co-direc\u00adtor of the <em>\u00c9tude Partenariale sur la M\u00e9diation de la Musique<\/em> [Music Mediation Partnership Study] <em>(EPMM)<\/em><a href=\"#fn5\" class=\"footnote-ref\" id=\"fnref5\" role=\"doc-noteref\"><sup>5<\/sup><\/a> founded in 2018 and executive director of the <em>Center for Research in Art and Social Engagement Artenso<\/em><a href=\"#fn6\" class=\"footnote-ref\" id=\"fnref6\" role=\"doc-noteref\"><sup>6<\/sup><\/a>, I can only emphasise how stimulating and fruitful this research cohabitation is, \u201cenabling a plurality of individuals to contribute to the elaboration of collective decisions\u201d (Kirchberg and Poirier 2024). However, it sometime leads me to question the position I adopt as a researcher in these collaborations. As Michel Sebillotte puts it, by committing to partners who have a problem, which may be a problem of evaluation, the researcher \u201cparticipates in the transformation of reality by accepting that his research directly helps them to act in this reality\u201d (Sebilotte 2007). This makes me wonder: To what extent do we want to conform to our partners\u2019 expectations when it comes to evaluating music mediation activities? Answering this question means looking at the way in which the partners conceive the practice of evaluation and the concrete consequences of these representations (i.e. the performative effects of these representations).<\/p>\n<p>Thus, is it possible to carry out an evaluation whose methods and conclusions are not amputated by the contingencies of the funders or the organism? Some researchers (Deslyper, Eloy, and Picaud 2022, 3) question the autonomy granted to researchers in this context, and the opportunity they are given to make explicit the preconceptions or biases of stakeholders \u2013 in short, to demonstrate critical distance from the partnership evaluation project. I propose instead a reflection that will provide a systematic presentation of certain types of reductionism at work in the common discourse on the evaluation of music mediation activities and which could affect the accomplishment of investigations in the field. To this end, I will analyse a few transcriptions of comments made by musicians, heads of music organisations, and representatives of professional artists\u2019 rights organisations between 2019 and 2024 at training sessions, conferences, and consultations.<a href=\"#fn7\" class=\"footnote-ref\" id=\"fnref7\" role=\"doc-noteref\"><sup>7<\/sup><\/a> By showing the limitations of this Procrustean bed,<a href=\"#fn8\" class=\"footnote-ref\" id=\"fnref8\" role=\"doc-noteref\"><sup>8<\/sup><\/a> I will analyse drifts to which these reductionisms lead and, by contrast, present some key values of cultural mediation as it is conceptualised in Quebec. Being affected by ideological biases, the evaluation of music mediation activities would then be warped by a misunderstanding of the values conveyed by these practices. Music mediation would then become the Trojan horse of other interests. That is why I propose, in conclusion, to reflect on the solutions available for transforming evaluation from the Trojan horse it often becomes when impoverished, into a battle horse for the ideals of music mediation.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"1\">Additional Load and Assessment Standardisation<\/h4>\n<p>In the discussions I took part in, the task of evaluation is sometimes conceived as an exogenous to mediation activities. For the organisations, it is a matter of carrying out an evaluation task in addition to the many artistic, promotional, etc. tasks at the heart of their mission. This evaluation task is then considered as a satellite to the music mediation project, or as an overload, as can be seen in the following two quotes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"tsquotation\">There\u2019s a lack of resources, a lack of time. So very often, the extra reflection and participation required by evaluation seems like an extra burden. (General Director of a contemporary music organisation)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"tsquotation\">Would it be conceivable for those in the field, organisations with little money, to be equipped with standard evaluation tools? Given the constraints you all know about (a poorly resourced environment), that would be the solution. (Musician\u2019s representative)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Given the many constraints already weighing down organisations, some of them already feel that they are showing goodwill in the face of what they see as a barrier to mediation. Since they agree to this evaluation, it should be possible to carry it out at a lower cost. This way of thinking opens the door to a form of assessment standardisation. This explains why, in the grey literature of cultural associations, generic evaluation guides are flourishing, proposing \u201cgeneric inputs\u201d (Jackson 2004), \u201cuniform analysis grids\u201d (Pronovost and Harrison-Boisvert 2015), and \u201cpre-formatted reports\u201d (Abbo et al. 2018). Researchers who always tend to grasp the specificity of their object may doubt the transferability of these standardised summative evaluation guides (i.e. those that ratify the end of the process of mediation) to capture theatrical, museum, or musical activities, regardless of the type of participation envisaged (Casemajor, Lamoureux, and Racine 2016). Such assessments run the risk of cutting out the singularities at work in mediation activities whose contexts and audiences are, by their very nature, disparate. This raises a series of questions: How can we fit the diversity of what happens during a mediation activity into the straitjacket of a standard guide demanded by a representative of a musicians\u2019 guild, which places more value on results than on processes (which generate their own effects)? How can we propose innovative mediation activities that hybridise formats, contexts, and populations, if an analytical grid already locks or imprisons the horizon of possible results? We run the risk of witnessing the imposition of mediation activities whose objectives prioritise ease of evaluation over their alignment with genuine needs.<a href=\"#fn9\" class=\"footnote-ref\" id=\"fnref9\" role=\"doc-noteref\"><sup>9<\/sup><\/a> It is important to keep in mind that music organisations and artists must manage to operate with reduced human and financial resources, but we must also understand that this leads to reductionisms such as this one, or the one that is about to follow.<\/p>\n<h6>Apologetic discourse and objectification of participants<\/h6>\n<p>Given their limited resources, organisations must seize every opportunity to grow and perpetuate their funding. In this context, evaluation is often reduced to an apologetic discourse. By this I mean that it consists of a simple discourse defending the value and benefits of mediation activities in the eyes of funders or in the public sphere: \u201cMediation is so closely linked to funding issues that everyone has a vested interest in saying it went well.\u201d (A funded artist). This form of assessment is limited to verifying the effectiveness of the actions taken (Deslyper, Eloy, and Picaud 2022) and becomes a control tool. The evaluators then find themselves caught up in a logic of legitimisation that does not sit well with an academic approach. This problem is not new to sociologists interested in social work (Ion 2020). This is all the more problematic since William Beauchemin and Noemie Maignien point out that the interest of cultural mediation is that it is \u201cworked from within by critical dynamics and ideals of social transformation\u201d (Maignien and Beauchemin 2019). By becoming an apologetic or enchanted discourse, these evaluations present mediation as a miracle cure for the ills of society, rather than truly being able to report on the challenges and issues faced by the populations with whom mediators work. This leads directly to another common kind of reductionism, which is very clearly shown in the first excerpt from a report on the subject of art and social inclusion written by a consortium of experts: \u201cOf course, it [the evaluation of cultural activities] also contributes to verifying the attainment of the objectives that have been set and their effectiveness in terms of the benefits expected from them\u201d (Boisvert and Bracco 2023, 114). Here, evaluation is reduced to a tautological discourse that simply says the same thing over and over again, to reinforce itself. In short, in this situation, the evaluation only considers the effects of the mediation activities for which it was subsidised. The first risk of this is that the decision-makers alone decide which effects are important for the participants. The second risk is that some organisations focus their actions solely on the objectives already identified, to the detriment of their intrinsic mission.<\/p>\n<h6>Productivist Bias and Measuring versus Evaluation<\/h6>\n<p>This confusion between measuring and evaluating, between performance and effects, has led to a preference for quantitative rather than qualitative approaches to evaluating music mediation activities. The vocabulary used in the following excerpt is clear: Evaluating has become equated with measuring and verifying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"tsquotation\">I represent the community and I have to do evaluations for my training courses, and we\u2019re always going to try to bring that back on solid ground [&#8230;] I understand that there are very broad and political reflections that have to be made, but the granting agencies have requirements for their accountability [&#8230;] Are you able to measure what the granting agency is giving money for? Is it measurable? (Musician\u2019s representative)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Sylvie P\u00e9brier points out, in this context, the subjective evaluation method, aimed at assessing or estimating a project, gives way to an evaluation method focused on determining or establishing the value of the action (P\u00e9brier 2020). Between these two methods, the gap between a judgement to be made and a measure to be implemented comes to the fore. This is what I call a productivist bias. Evaluation becomes an administrative exercise, which at the end of the project or the year consists of submitting a balance sheet to reassure the grantmakers that the objectives set beforehand have been achieved. The lexical field used by the organisations\u2019 representatives is highly instructive in this respect: Effects must be produced, and \u201cimpacts\u201d (Quintas 2014) measured. As Fran\u00e7ois Matarasso explains, this opens the door to several problems (Matarasso 2014; 2016; 2023). The term \u201cimpact\u201d seems inappropriate in cultural mediation, since it is not necessarily the mediators\u2019 vocation to produce a continuous effect on or change for the participants. If, as in physics, impact is the way something hits an object, can this notion be applied to what really happens in a mediation activity? During these activities, are participants passively subjected to the impact \u2013 or, to stretch the metaphor, the \u2018shock\u2019 \u2013 of the \u2018culture\u2019 that is shared with them in an activity? While the impact metaphor is flattering for politicians, it assumes a passive posture on the part of audiences and participants of mediation activities, thus denying their agency. The neoliberal turn to evaluation reflected in the vocabulary identified above is particularly problematic for cultural mediation, since its \u201cmain objective is to empower the individuals and communities who need it most, through a transfer of skills and responsibilities, [whereas] the dominant economic logic instead accentuates their dependence.\u201d (Lafortune 2019, 222).<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"2\">Conclusion: Making evaluation a subject for debate<\/h4>\n<p>Participatory research can help us \u2013 researchers, practitioners, and funders \u2013 \u201cwork together on the meaning\u201d (P\u00e9brier 2020) of our actions, and highlight the ethical objectives of music mediation activities in order to transform our way of thinking about and doing evaluations. One of the mediators on our research team puts it this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"tsquotation\">I think we also need to take inspiration from the scientific method when we\u2019re doing an evaluation where we\u2019re posing a hypothesis and we don\u2019t really have the answer to our question at the outset [&#8230;] We can end up with something that wasn\u2019t planned and which is completely satisfactory, and we need to avoid settling for a grid that would be restrictive and that would cause us to miss out on these positive unforeseen events. (Head of Mediation Department)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Evaluation in music mediation should therefore be the pretext for \u201can ongoing exercise in reflection, integrated into the project\u201d (P\u00e9brier 2020, 12) On this subject, Jimmy Gamble points out: \u201cThe techniques that make for excellent evaluation in more static situations prove useless, or even harmful, in situations marked by uncertainty, when the rules of the game are constantly changing.\u201d (Gamble 2008, 13) That is why it can be stated that the evaluation of music mediation activities should no longer be summative (i.e. judging the results), but evolutionary (i.e. adapting at the end of each activity to the issues encountered by the mediators and participants). Among other things, P\u00e9brier (2020) also recommends that evaluation in music mediation should be participatory, to reflect on the ethics of evaluation, which is to encourage critical and logical thinking, and to recognise the abilities of each individual. Indeed, mediation\u2019s mandate is \u201cto be part of a horizontal relationship between the stakeholders that he or she brings together around an artistic work, in order to encourage each person\u2019s ability to formulate his or her own judgment\u201d (Gomez 2020). Evaluation should therefore become dialogical. It should open up a dialogue with participants on their expectations of the actions they take part in, and enable them to express their feelings throughout the activities. The conditions for voluntary, active, and inclusive participation (Zask 2011) should therefore be established for all those involved in an activity: artists, mediators, participants, and others. In this way, evaluation reinforces the identity of music mediation and reaffirms its political ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the replacement of \u201ccultural\u201d by \u201cmusic\u201d in the expression \u201cmusic mediation\u201d is intended to indicate that the mediation process takes on the character of music. With this in mind, shouldn\u2019t the evaluation processes for these specific activities make it possible to grasp the specific effects of music in the context of these activities more effectively? Here, the full potential of art-based evaluation<a href=\"#fn10\" class=\"footnote-ref\" id=\"fnref10\" role=\"doc-noteref\"><sup>10<\/sup><\/a> \u2013 a technique that uses metaphor as a means of exploring concepts and ideas that might otherwise be difficult or uncomfortable to communicate \u2013 remains to be explored.<\/p>\n<h4>Endnotes<\/h4>\n<hr>\n<ol>\n<li id=\"fn1\">\n<p>See <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/www.culturepourtous.ca\/en\/\">https:\/\/www.culturepourtous.ca\/en\/<\/a> (accessed April 10, 2025).<a href=\"#fnref1\" class=\"footnote-back\"\nrole=\"doc-backlink\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"fn2\">\n<p>All translations by the author.<a href=\"#fnref2\"\nclass=\"footnote-back\" role=\"doc-backlink\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"fn3\">\n<p>In the French-speaking world, authors use different terms to refer to music mediation activities: \u201cm\u00e9diation de la musique\u201d, \u201cm\u00e9diation musicale\u201d or \u201cm\u00e9diation culturelle de la musique\u201d. I had the opportunity to clarify the nuances between these terms in the introduction to an issue of a magazine published in 2020 (Kirchberg 2020). Like Sylvie P\u00e9brier, I note that these activities have the common aim of \u201c[situating] music not so much as the finality of mediation, but rather as the means of an encounter that seeks to make culture together\u201d (P\u00e9brier 2020), and are therefore placed in the wake of the objectives of cultural mediation, but use music as a lever.<a href=\"#fnref3\"\nclass=\"footnote-back\" role=\"doc-backlink\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"fn4\">\n<p>For example, the <em>Observatoire des m\u00e9diations culturelles<\/em>, the <em>Centre de recherches en art et engagement social<\/em> and the <em>Etude partenariale en m\u00e9diation de la musique<\/em> benefit from federal and provincial funding to support partnership research which \u201crequires researchers and practitioners to work together, combining their knowledge, methods and resources to carry out research projects that are as relevant to the university community as they are to the practice environment\u201d. (Sutton 2007, 6)<a\nhref=\"#fnref4\" class=\"footnote-back\" role=\"doc-backlink\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"fn5\">\n<p>See <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/epmm.p2m.oicrm.org\/\">https:\/\/epmm.p2m.oicrm.org\/<\/a> (accessed April 10, 2025).<a href=\"#fnref5\" class=\"footnote-back\"\nrole=\"doc-backlink\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"fn6\">\n<p>See <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/artenso.ca\/\">https:\/\/artenso.ca\/<\/a> (accessed April 10, 2025).<a href=\"#fnref6\" class=\"footnote-back\"\nrole=\"doc-backlink\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"fn7\">\n<p>2023 Orford Musique, Formation professionnelle \u00e0 la m\u00e9diation de la musique, MFort, Orford Musique, Conseil de la culture de l\u2019Estrie, CQM, Guilde des musiciens. Subventionn\u00e9 par emploi Qu\u00e9bec, January 5-8, 2023; 2021 EPMM workshop #3 <em>\u00c9valuer la m\u00e9diation de la musique<\/em>, December 3, 2021: <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/epmm.p2m.oicrm.org\/projet\/atelier-epmm-3-evaluer-la-mediation-de-la-musique\/\">https:\/\/epmm.p2m.oicrm.org\/projet\/atelier-epmm-3-evaluer-la-mediation-de-la-musique\/<\/a> (Accessed April 10, 2025); 2019, Conseil Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois de la musique, \u201cQu\u2019est-ce que la m\u00e9diation de la musique\u201d and \u201cEtats des lieux des pratiques de la m\u00e9diation de la musique \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e8re du num\u00e9rique\u201d, Grands rendez-vous de la musique 2019, Montr\u00e9al, June 5-6; 2018, Conseil Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois de la Musique, \u201cLa m\u00e9diation de la musique telle que vue par les diffuseurs et producteurs du Qu\u00e9bec\u201d, Montr\u00e9al, September 20; 2018, Bourse rideau, \u201cPratiques exemplaires en d\u00e9veloppement de public\u201d, Qu\u00e9bec, February 12, 2018.<a href=\"#fnref7\" class=\"footnote-back\"\nrole=\"doc-backlink\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"fn8\">\n<p>I am referring here to the Greek myth of Procrustes, a brigand who, under the pretext of welcoming strangers for the night, would lay them on a bed and cut off their limbs, or stretch them out, so that they corresponded exactly to the measurements of the bed. The expression \u201cProcrustean bed\u201d is therefore used to describe a narrow, awkward, tyrannical rule that is applied automatically.<a href=\"#fnref8\"\nclass=\"footnote-back\" role=\"doc-backlink\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"fn9\">\n<p>For example, it will be easier to assess the evolution of musical skills than to describe the effects in terms of social cohesion or intercultural dialogue.<a href=\"#fnref9\"\nclass=\"footnote-back\" role=\"doc-backlink\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"fn10\">\n<p>See <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.ascevaluation.ca\/Documents\/Toolkits\/GOAL_ArtBasedEvaluation.pdf\">http:\/\/www.ascevaluation.ca\/Documents\/Toolkits\/GOAL_ArtBasedEvaluation.pdf<\/a> (accessed April 10, 2025).<a href=\"#fnref10\" class=\"footnote-back\"\nrole=\"doc-backlink\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4 id=\"3\">Bibliography<\/p>\n<h4>\n<p class=\"bibliography\">Abbo, Julie, Anne-France Bonnet, Pauline Chatin, and Louise Renaudin. 2018. \u201cLa boussole de l\u2019Art Citoyen. renforcer l\u2019impact de votre projet fr\u00e2ce \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9valuation.\u201d <em>Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso, Nueva vista<\/em>. 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