faire culture

English translation: Shaping culture

06:25 Feb 19, 2020
French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / book summary
French term or phrase: faire culture
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"...Mêlant photographie documentaire et artistique, portraits et paysages, le collectif nous entraîne dans un ensemble géographique abstrait qui devient prétexte à questionner les idées de faire culture et de faire société."

For more context, please take a look at the link below:
https://www.becair.com/produit/dici-ca-ne-parait-pas-si-loin...

does this just mean to "make/create a culture"

this isn't clear to me.

Thank you
Louisa.
Louisa Tchaicha
Tunisia
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English translation:Shaping culture
Explanation:
...rethink the notion of shaping culture and society" might sound good with the one verb serving both ideas.

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The Culture Factor
Over time an organization's leaders can also shape culture, through both conscious and unconscious actions (sometimes with ...
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3 +3Shaping culture
ormiston
4Cultural production
B D Finch
2cultural norms
Wolf Draeger


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Shaping culture


Explanation:
...rethink the notion of shaping culture and society" might sound good with the one verb serving both ideas.

hbr.org
Web results
The Culture Factor
Over time an organization's leaders can also shape culture, through both conscious and unconscious actions (sometimes with ...

ormiston
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agree  SafeTex: and would go well with "society" too which follows
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agree  philgoddard
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agree  Stephanie Benoist
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Cultural production


Explanation:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/cultur...
"Cultural production is deeply embedded in social networks at the individual, group, industry, and place level. These networks affect production of ideas as well as the production of cultural products and the ability of those products to reach an audience."

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https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20...
Overview
cultural production
1. The social processes involved in the generation and circulation of cultural forms, practices, values, and shared understandings: see also consensus.

2. The work of the culture industry.

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http://www.artelysees.fr/en/evenement/92-javier-balmaseda
Javier Balmaseda is Cuban artist. He studied at ... According to him, the meaning of art cannot be understood without his cultural and social production context.

https://www.studio-orta.com/download/index/Lucy-Jorge-Orta-P...
special relationships forged between people through the medium of art. ... art, and opens up the discussion to other branches of cultural and social production.

https://thepedagogicalimpulse.com/production-value-and-consu...
Making art out of garbage might seem like an amusing gag, but questioning the value of cultural and social production is something artists do as much as they ...




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To better understand the fact that this is an expression with a particular philosophical meaning, I suggest you consult https://www.cairn.info/revue-tous-urbains-2015-2-page-10.htm... which discusses the term "faire société".

I think that "shaping culture" is not at all what is meant here.

B D Finch
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cultural norms


Explanation:
Agree with BD that faire société is a specific term, though I suspect it's one of those ideas in the water, so to speak, and bandied about without anybody really knowing—or agreeing—what it means. Same goes for faire culture and faire just about anything, I guess.

The term seems to be used in a negative way in the ST, so I'm guessing the photobook is meant to question commonly held ideas or biases about people, society and culture. "Norm" isn't quite right, as it's often used in a positive sense, but maybe it will prompt a better option.

Example sentence(s):
  • Blending documentary and artistic photography of people and places, it draws us into an abstract geography, causing us to question social and cultural norms.
  • Part documentary, part art exhibition, its photographs of people and places draw us into an abstract geography and cause us to question social and cultural norms.

    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_norm
    Reference: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/social-norms/
Wolf Draeger
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