Co-producing legacy:What is the role of artists within Connected Communities projects?

互联社区（CC）计划以多种方式让艺术家参与进来，他们作为促进者、社区参与机制、诗人、电影制作人、画家、举办工作坊和手工艺会议，以及作为研究人员。然而，它们对与社区伙伴共同生产知识的贡献还没有得到充分的了解。本项目将考虑艺术家对互联社区项目的影响，以便更深入地了解艺术家在这些项目中激发特定变化的方式。这将包括对所有250个项目的审查，以及对艺术实践和合作制作的文献审查，然后更详细地关注以创新方式使用艺术家的六个项目。根据2013年7月爱丁堡峰会上建立的现有关系和新关系，选择了三个案例研究。该团队已经制定了进一步的行动，以更深入地探索艺术家与社区合作的方式。该项目的重点是考虑艺术家改变和将改变CC项目概念化，开发和交付方式的方式，以及艺术实践支持合作生产方法的程度。然后，这将作为一项长期AHRC CC战略的投资，该战略可以照亮未来与社区共同制作的项目中涉及艺术家的研究。咨询的形式将通过工作室作为流程。工作室是一个概念性的空间，在这里，团队可以从我们已经认识到的工作中形成和发展事物。它涉及一群人，他们在大学的结构之外运作，并承认不同类型的专业知识——所有参与者都可以成为“专家”。它能适应和响应特定的情况，是一个行动、过程和实践的空间。它不是一个物理空间，不是一个数字环境，也不是一组结构化的会议。它从根本上说是一种方法，而不是一种制度。我们将利用工作室合作制作一个关于艺术家角色的调查。我们的目标是阐明艺术家在社区环境中工作的方式，具体调查他们如何在社区和已经资助的项目中为改变做出贡献。虽然我们关注的是艺术家，但我们认为这种关注是一种探索CC项目遗产和更普遍的合作制作方法的方式。项目小组将在与文化决策领域的国家决策者的对话中开展这项调查。项目团队包括艺术家、a - n艺术家信息公司、卡斯尔菲尔德画廊、社区合作伙伴、艺术家研究人员和来自不同学科的学者。该研究将通过反思、行动和协作工作室空间来探索艺术家与社区合作的过程，这将产生一系列的行动、论文和报告，并提交给AHRC连接社区项目。在此过程中，团队还将借鉴社区合作伙伴的工作，更密切地关注艺术家在社区工作的道德框架。该项目还将与提供支持的国家机构英国艺术委员会和A-N艺术家信息公司进行传播和讨论。我们的目标是建立一个空间，让艺术家在CC中的角色得到更充分的理解，团队包括已经参与CC项目的人，以及新的学者，艺术家和社区合作伙伴。我们的产出将包括一个共享博客、一篇联合文章、一个展览、一份关于互联社区项目的报告、四篇讨论论文和一本关于工作室空间的书，重点关注互联社区作为一个项目的遗产。

The Connected Communities (CC) programme involved artists in many ways, as facilitators, as mechanisms for community engagement, as poets, film makers, painters, to deliver workshops and crafts sessions and also as researchers. However, their contribution to the co-production of knowledge with community partners is insufficiently understood. This project will consider the impact of artists on the Connected Communities projects in order to create a deeper understanding of the ways that artists stimulate particular kinds of change within these projects. This will involve a review of all 250 projects, together with a literature review on arts practice and co-production, and then a more detailed focus on six projects that have used artists in innovative ways. Three case studies have been selected building on existing and new relationships developed at the Edinburgh Summit in July 2013. The team have developed further actions to explore in more depth the way artists have worked with communities. The focus of the project is to consider the ways in which artists have changed and will change the way CC projects are conceptualised, developed and delivered and the extent to which arts practice supports co-production methodologies. This will then be delivered as an investment into long term AHRC CC strategy which can illuminate future research involving artists in projects that are co-produced with communities.The form of the enquiry will be through the studio as process. The studio is a conceptual space where groups form and grow things which emerges from something we recognise as working already. It involves a group of people who operate beyond the structures of the university and recognises different types of expertise - all participants can emerge as 'experts'. It is adaptable and responsive to particular situations and is a space of action, process, and practice. It is not a physical space, a digital environment, or a structured set of meetings. It is at root an approach and not an institution. We will draw on the studio to co-produce an enquiry into the role of artists. We aim to illuminate the ways in which artists work in community contexts with a specific inquiry into how they contribute to change within communities and within the projects already funded. Although we are focusing on artists, we see this focus as a way in to exploring the legacy of CC projects and their co-production methodologies more generally. The project team will develop this enquiry in conversation with national policy makers in the field of cultural policy-making. The project team includes artists, A-N The Artists Information Company, Castlefield Gallery, community partners, artist researchers and academics from a variety of disciplines. The study will explore through reflection, action and a collaborative studio space the process of artists working with communities, which will result in a series of actions, papers and a report to go to AHRC Connected Communities programme. In the process of doing this, the team will also look more closely at the ethical framework surrounding artists' work in communities, drawing on the work of community partners. The project will also be disseminated and discussed with national body Arts Council England, who have offered support, and A-N Artists Information Company. The aim is to set up a space where the role of artists within CC becomes more fully understood, with a team that includes those already involved in CC projects, as well as new academics, artists and community partners.Our outputs will include a shared blog, a joint article, an exhibition, a report to the Connected Communities programme plus four discussion papers and a book on studio spaces focusing on the legacy of Connected Communities as a programme.