Co-creative communities

Traversing a vast terrain including local and regional democracy, ageing, care, reproduction, sexuality, disabilities, and migration, we co-create the spaces and tools communities need to re-frame narratives, claim and defend rights, and forge powerful solidarities.

 

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Mythic Storytelling and the Changing Environment

Contact: Christine Plastow
Partner: Theatre of Gentle Furies

Mythic Storytelling and the Changing Environment seeks to explore what intervention a theatrical production and series of workshops based in storytelling from a range of mythic traditions can make in ongoing discussions around the climate crisis.

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Developing a sexual and reproductive justice agenda in Scotland (SRJ Scotland)

Contact: Carrie Purcel
Partner: IReSH, University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh

This project developed a multi-stakeholder workshop which co-developed a potentially radical SRH agenda for Scotland.

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Asset Mapping: Comparative Approaches

Contact: Katerina Alexiou
Partners: Details of partners can be found on project's partnership page 

Asset based community development (ABCD) is a powerful approach used with a diverse network of communities and community organizations across the UK Connected Communities programme to help uncover and utilize their hidden potential, their tangible resources (such as spaces, services and infrastructures) and intangible qualities (such as creative talents, skills, knowledge, social and emotional capital). 

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Incubating Civic Leadership

Contact: Katerina Alexiou
Partner: The Glass-House Community Led Design, Knowle West Media Centre

A project exploring civic leadership and how different actors can be brought together to co-design ideas, innovations and actions that push boundaries and address challenges at a local and global level. 

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REACT

Contact: Rebecca Jones
Partner: Frontline AIDS

Co-produced online training programme for REAct, a community-based human rights monitoring and response programme which documents and responds to human rights-related barriers that individuals experience in accessing services at community level.

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Urban trees as a nature-based solution for heat-resilient green neighbourhoods

Contact: Leslie Mabon
Partner: Communities and urban planning practitioners in Glasgow (Scotland) and Taipei (Taiwan). 

Urban trees can act as a cooling strategy in extreme heat events. However, residents’ groups and civil society organisations argue that top-down planning approaches ignore residents’ experiences and entrench inequalities. This project works with communities and urban planning practitioners in Glasgow (Scotland) and Taipei (Taiwan) to collaboratively make sense of the social and cultural landscape to which environmental science-driven approaches to urban nature need to respond.

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Evidence Cafés for Migration

Contact: Anne Adams
Partner: UK Police and African Migrant Communities

Originally co-created with UK Police and African migrant partners, this "Evidence Café" Open Educational Resource is a valuable tool for educational knowledge exchange.

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Arts-based co-creation of sexuality education with young people in Aruba

Contact: Elizabeth Ascroft
Partner: International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) 

This research explores co-creative approaches with young people to develop sexuality education materials in Aruba, the Caribbean. It studys ways of knowing following an anticolonial approach to dominant forms of sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) knowledge within the international development sector. The research considers how creative dialogic spaces influence knowledge production, whilst reflecting on concepts of participation, power and affect.  

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Radical Roots - Addressing inequalities of opportunity through place-based co-design approaches

Contact: Maja Jorgensen
Partner: Zebra Collective

The project Radical Roots aims to co-create place-based co-design approaches to increase the real opportunities that citizens and marginalised groups have to imagine and pursue meaningful change for themselves and their local communities. Through this they can uncover and build on their own strengths and reconnect with their agency to reduce the impact of inequalities.

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Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Chile: A Feminist Co-Creative Study with Young Women Coresearchers

Contact: Elise Denis-Ramirez
Partner: International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)

The research explores how young Chilean women perceived and experienced areas of abortion, sexuality, and reproduction in the aftermath of the 2018 feminist protests and legalisation of abortion. Using an arts-based co-creative approach, young women participated as coresearchers, in the design, data collection and analysis of the research.