Azraq Refugee Camp: Visit Two
We make art to provide solutions. So, it’s important to us to find out what happens after we leave.
In January 2016, Catherine Shovlin, Artmongers Director of Research, went back to the refugee camp to carry evaluate the impact of the July 2015 artwork and discuss next steps with the team there.
We used the well-established 5 measures of wellbeing (connectedness, physical activity, learning, helping and awareness), represented as a visual scale to overcome language and literacy challenges.
We surveyed refugees before and 6 months after our intervention in the area and also spoke to a control group in a different part of the camp. Our hypothesis, based on our experiences on other projects, was that working together to have a positive impact on shared public space improves community well-being. We were thrilled by the results – a great improvement in well-being that seems to confirm the value of this work.
