Bursting the Bubble: connecting with communities making culture on their own terms (2014)
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BURSTING THE BUBBLEConnecting with people making culture on their own terms
@timj0nesabout.me/timj0nes
Arts & Audiences Conference, Reykjavik, Oct 2014
innovation in“community
arts”
innovation in“community (using the)
arts”
‘communities’ and boxes
3 challenges: 3 projects
it’s all (post) digital now
CHALLENGE 1: COMMUNITY LED CREATIVITY
NODE.LONDONusing digital to build cultural
infrastructure
• a month long city-wide season of art & technology events
• networked, open, distributed, events• 90+ volunteer organisers (artists, producers,
venues, mavericks)• no centralised curation• volunteers worked only on aspects of the project
they were motivated to• no voting – consensus based approach• model adopted by NODE.Stockholm (2008)
SEASON OF MEDIA ARTS LONDON, March 2006
• 450 events• 40 venues, from major cultural institutions to
grassroots• print catalogue, ‘central’ website, publication• huge boost to networking and resource awareness• audiences ‘beyond the fold’?
CHALLENGE 2: USER CENTRED DESIGN
THE POTLUCKmixing food, art & creativity for intercultural placemaking
CHICAGO
urban geography, race/ethnicity
harnessing the potential of the
‘intercultural neighbourhood’
we think that to bring neighbourhoods together
FOOD JUST WORKS
it’s a fun and popular wayto explore themes of
CULTUREPLACE
IDENTITYMIGRATION
the ingredients
FOOD SHARING EVENTSinviting dialogue about neighbourhood futures
1
proactive inclusivity as a design principle
everyone is welcomed to the table
TRAININGin creative/artistic community activism
2
so forming local practitioner groups committed to
inclusive neighbourhood development
we’ve worked with 35 artists/activists and our events have reached
thousands of local people
an interactive installation at the Smart Museum of Contemporary Art
Audience 80,0001,700 public contributions
A NETWORK OF PARTNERS
• Columbia College• The Jane Addams Hull House
Museum• The Inspiration Kitchen• Dorchester Projects• En Las Tablas Performing Arts
Center
Potluck: Chicago has been established as a sustainable collective
CHALLENGE 3: ENTERPRISE
MULTIWALKS www.multiwalks.com@multiwalks
inspired by global mass migration and urbanisation
• a free mobile app offering neighbourhood walks by migrant artists (Italy, Norway, UK)
• a workflow to create more walks
• a ‘@Diversity’ award from the European Commission
collaborating withBusiness Improvement Districts
(BIDs) to develop the Local Visitor Economy
revealing coexistent stories of place to encourage emergent forms of tourism
using a digital platform to invent socially engaged
street art
• street art murals reflecting historical figures from the history and politics of Reggio Emilia, Italy
• young people from migrant backgrounds interviewing local residents to provide media content for the app
BONUS CHALLENGE
persistent platforms and frameworksbeyond ‘pond to pond’ funding
SOME FOCUSSING QUESTIONS
how can we make more inclusive and representative the ways we bring together
communities, artists, producers, technologists?
how can we give communities ‘producer power’
as well as the benefits of participation?
what changes in our institutions do we want?aims: structure: make up: programme:
partnerships
what changes to financing structures
are needed for greater impactand to support greater social
change?
what ideas and approaches might engage artists
with the potential of social creativity
in new and important ways?
how can we routinely build digital ‘ladders of
participation’ into projects and
programmes?
thank you for taking part!
@timj0nesabout.me/timj0nes