Pilot: Supporting and Transforming Leadership in Online Creative Collaboration

该项目旨在支持和转变在线创意协作的新兴实践，使新型创意过程和产品成为可能。在线交流可以为创造力和协作提供支持。在今天的互联网上，业余参与者已经在创造性项目上进行合作。我们专注于一个创意领域：动画短片的创作。在我们研究的第一阶段，我们正在研究现有的实践，以深入了解在线创意协作的哪些方面具有挑战性。基于这种理解，我们正在创建Sandbox，这是一套支持创造性在线协作的工具。大多数现有的实践都使用一个核心创意领导者或“导演”的生产模式。我们的工具旨在使领导者的角色更容易，同时也使一种新的更分散/无领导者的生产模式成为可能。通过比较和对比集中和分散的项目结构，我们将深入了解创作过程的基本问题以及如何支持它。

This project seeks to support and transform emergent practices of online creative collaboration, making new kinds of creative processes and products possible. Online communication can provide a source of support for creativity and collaboration. On the Internet today, amateur participants are already collaborating on creative projects. We focus on one creative domain: the creation of short, animated movies. In phase one of our research, we are studying existing practice, to gain insight into what aspects of online creative collaboration are challenging. Based on this understanding, we are creating Sandbox, a suite of tools to support creative collaboration online. Most existing practice uses a central creative leader or "auteur" model of production. Our tools are designed to make the leader's role easier, and also to make a new more decentralized/leaderless mode of production possible. By comparing and contrasting centralized and decentralized project structures, we will gain insights into fundamental issues of the creative process and how to support it.