Co-Creation in Theory and Practice: Exploring Creativity in the Global North and South

✍ Scribed by Christina Horvath (editor); Juliet Carpenter (editor)

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 324
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This innovative book provides a critical analysis of diverse experiences of Co-creation in neighbourhood settings across the Global North and Global South. A unique collection of international researchers, artists and activists explore how creative, arts-based methods of community engagement can help tackle marginalisation and stigmatisation, whilst empowering communities to effect positive change towards more socially just cities. Focusing on community collaboration, arts practice, and knowledge sharing, this book proposes various methods of Co-Creation for community engagement and assesses the effectiveness of different practices in highlighting, challenging, and reversing issues that most affect urban cohesion in contemporary cities.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Co-Creation in Theory and Practice: Exploring Creativity in the Global North and South
Copyright information
Table of contents
List of figures and tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: conceptualising Co-Creation as a methodology
Introduction
What is Co- Creation?
Co-Creation in theory and practice
Co-Creation in the Global North and the Global South
References
Part I Co-Creation in theory
2 Co-creation and the state in a global context
Introduction
Seeing from the South
What/where is the Global South?
Policy mobility: a new form of colonisation?
Moving forward: beyond dichotomies
Co-creation: a colonising concept?
Co-Creation and the state: North and South
Conclusion
References
3 Fostering artistic citizenship: how Co-Creation can awaken civil imagination
Introduction
The potential of a civil imagination
Civil imagination and artistic citizenship
Co-Creation as key to promoting civil imagination
References
4 Global North-South tensions in international Co-Creation projects
Introduction
The Global North-South paradigm and the Co-Creation framework
Challenging stigmatisation: Santa Marta and Co-Creation
Actors’ identities and the Co-Creation experience
Conclusion
References
5 Doing politics in uncertain times: Co-Creation, agency and the ontology of the city
Introduction
The strategic hypothesis of Co-Creation
Co-Creation in a context of uncertainty
Urban space, threat space and common space
References
6 Co-Creation and bridging theory-method divides
Introduction
The creative research assemblage: thinking through theory and method
Co-Creative practices
Thinking-making-doing: Mapping young people’s spaces
Conclusion
References
7 Does space matter? Built environments and Co-Creation in Mexico City
Introduction
Conceptual frames: spatial and socially engaged art practices
A long tradition of socially engaged artists
Cultural venues in Mexico City
Collaborative artistic practices
Collective groups of professional artists with a permanent place
Individual artistic projects in public open space
Institutional social development projects in public facilities
Artists and residents with self-managed projects in low-income neighbourhoods
The location of collaborative arts practices
Characteristics of the culture infrastructure for Co-Creation
Urban form and architecture considerations
The impact of cultural agents
Conclusion
References
8 Co-Creation, social capital and advocacy: the Neighbourhood and Community Improvement Programme, Mexico City
Introduction
Participatory citizenship and setting agendas
Neighbourhood and Community Improvement Programme in Mexico City
The voice of the community
Decision making and agenda building: a Co-Creative process?
References
Part II Co-Creation in practice
9 A top-down experiment in Co-Creation in Greater Paris
Introduction
Co-Creation as a tool for (more) just Creative Cities
Defining the Creative City
The Creative City in Plaine Commune
‘The Football Pitch …’ and local authority led Co-Creation
The ten Co-Creation principles and ‘The Football Pitch …’
Co-Creation and innovation in public policy making
Conclusion
References
10 Can literary events use Co-Creation to challenge stigmatisation?
Introduction
Destigmatisation through art in two literary festivals
Literary festivals in the context of the Global North-South divide
The literary festivals through the Co-Creation lens
Conclusion
References
11 When Co-Creation meets Art for Social Change: the Street Beats Band
Introduction
Conceptual frames: Co-Creation and Art for Social Change
Street Beats background
Co-Creation through the Street Beats Band
Confronting power differentials in Co-Creation
Conclusion
Funding acknowledgement
References
12 Co-Creation and social transformation: a tough issue for research
Introduction
The argument
From protest to proposal
Tough issues
The prototyping third
The truth is out there
Conclusion
References
13 We Can Make: Co-Creating knowledge and products with local communities
Introduction
Knowle West Media Centre
The Bristol Approach
We Can Make
Conclusion
References
14 Innovative collaborative policy development: Casa Fluminense and Rio’s public agenda challenges
Introduction
Inequality in Rio de Janeiro
Participatory planning in Brazil
Casa Fluminense
Comparing Casa Fluminense and Co-Creation approaches
Conclusion
References
15 Working the hyphens of artist-academic-stakeholder in Co-Creation: a hopeful rendering of a community organisation and an
Introduction
Santa Marta and Grupo Eco: popular cultural activism in Rio
Community partners, academics, and organic intellectualism in Santa Marta
Conclusion
References
16 Artist-researcher collaborations in Co-Creation: redesigning favela tourism around graffiti
Introduction
Favela tourism in Rio de Janeiro
Leandro Tick and socially engaged street art in Rio de Janeiro
Co-Creating a street art tour in Tabajaras & Cabritos
Conclusion
References
17 Capturing the impact of Co-Creation: poetry and street art in Iztapalapa
Introduction
Co-Creating a poetry workshop in Iztapalapa
Quasi-experimental design to measure the workshop’s impact
Open climate for classroom discussion
School climate
Student self-efficacy
Civic participation
Assessing the Co-Creation process and the measurement tool
Conclusion
References
18 Conclusion: lessons, implications and recommendations
The aims of Co-Creation
Roles and positionalities
Power and the state in Co-Creation
Process and outcomes
Space and place
Impact
When and how to use Co-Creation?
Conclusion and recommendations
Index
Back Cover