Comments on: Update: Co-Creating Change 25 Apr

By: FeastCornwall

FeastCornwall — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:37:42 +0000

There are some diagrams in this paper:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303541138_Models_of_Co-creation

Should anyone need their inner Co-Creation Geek to be more stimulated, the paper goes in to some detail.

By: batterseaartscentre

batterseaartscentre — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 10:23:51 +0000

In reply to Jonathan Petherbridge.

Thanks Jonathan – it would be great to see that co-creation spectrum diagram.

Agree with your point about ‘how agency/power is practised”. I am always anxious about creating/using scores or scales – in that they can quickly be used/appropriated to make something appear differently – your point about how agency/power is actually practised makes a lot of sense to me. Thanks again for your feedback and interest.

By: Jonathan Petherbridge

Jonathan Petherbridge — Wed, 16 May 2018 17:18:50 +0000

David, I like this thinking and the openness of the approach. Want to think about the Agency Scale, but it’s good to have a tool that provokes (and I choose that word) people to think it through. There’s an interesting diagram somewhere that puts co-creation on a spectrum, I’ll dig it out and send.

For Vernacular Theatre projects at Bubble, we employ a five stage process which deliberately and transparently hands control back and forth between specialist (professional) artists, and volunteer artists (participants) so both parties have space to do their best work.

The question you will ask is who set up the process and who curates it. Well it arose in a sort of action research way – a group worked together, made something, then named what they’d done. An evaluator had been observing and said nice things about social capital, then we did it again. And again – 6 times now. Younger members of our neighbourhood have grown up with it. People know the journey and can use it.

So I think we need to chew over not just agency/power, but how it is practised – in both senses of the word.

Look forward to talking further.

Jonathan Petherbridge