Tag: Co-creation

  • UK 12

    UK 12 Roots and Futures: Scaling Up and Sustaining Co-produced, Place-based Heritage with Underserved Communities This project is a place-based heritage project in Sheffield that supports underserved communities to shape heritage practice and policy. Through Roots and Future workshops, participants co-created insights on barriers and opportunities for engagement while contributing photos and drawings to the…

  • UK 9

    UK 9 Design Innovation and Cultural Resonances (Resonance): Place-based Collaboration This place-based collaboration in Scotland used creative methods—including scoping interviews and participatory film making—to strengthen community-led decision-making around land and cultural strategies. Through these processes, communities co-identified and articulated place-based cultural assets data. Creative pieces such as films captured lived experiences and celebrated cultural assets…

  • UK 7

    UK 7 City Change Through Culture: Securing the Place legacy of Coventry City of Culture 2021 Led by Coventry University, this place-based knowledge exchange project was one of nine grants awarded as part of the AHRC’s wider place-based programme. The project was designed to deliver on new possibilities for knowledge exchange around a substantial new…

  • UK 6

    UK 6 Art is Everywhere As part of the AHRC place-based research hub, this project demonstrates how creative community engagement and collaboration with communities can transform local arts strategies. Working across North Lanarkshire, the project used place-based work and performance to address inequalities through partnerships with diverse groups, from school children to older adults. Artworks—including…

  • UK 3

    UK 3 Ageing in Place Micro-Residency Project  This project used art-making and workshops to engage local residents over 50 in exploring ageing and community life. Seven artists worked across eight boroughs, co-creating with participants through poetry, origami, paintings, drawings, and clay sculptures. These creative pieces reflected lived experiences and contributed to the Ageing in Place…

  • CAN 6

    CAN 6 Greater Victoria Placemaking Network This volunteer-led non-profit fosters community connection through placemaking café activities and collaborative neighborhood projects. These events encourage residents to share ideas, learn from others, and co-create vibrant public spaces. A highlight initiative is the Little Library Boxes program, where neighbors design and launch unique book-sharing boxes as creative gathering…

  • CAN 3

    CAN 3 Accessible Art and Placemaking This project explores how accessible art can transform public spaces for people of all abilities. Using creative methods such as community walks, artists and urban planners with lived experience of disability co-created inclusive public art in Toronto’s Bloor Annex and Cabbagetown. These activities generated creative pieces including audio narratives…

  • CAN 2

    CAN 2 I HeART Main Street The I HeART Main Street program by STEPS Public Art, supported by RBC, is an annual initiative since 2020 that strengthens local main streets through creative placemaking and public art services. Partnering with BIAs and artists across Canada, the program fosters co-created artworks, arts workshops, and local story sharing…