Taking Yourselves Seriously

该项目旨在从一个名为“共同生产遗产”的研究项目中创造有用的知识，该项目考察了艺术理解和知识对互联社区项目研究的贡献。最初的项目发现，从艺术实践中做事的方式可以为社区导向的研究提供信息。这些做事方式包括建立在默契、经验、视觉和语言知识基础上的方法，这些知识是开放的，可以改变，也可以是实验性的。艺术家可以绘画、写诗、雕塑；他们还可以挑战或质疑人们如何从“倾斜”的角度看待世界和处理日常经验。从这些方法中产生的方法可以使诗歌、视觉艺术和电影的创作成为输出，也可以创造一个质疑的空间，在这个空间里，失败、实验和不同的认识方式被带到了前列。这些可以被描述为“方法”，但不是社会科学的调查模式。艺术方法可能是开放式的，不寻求共识，并涉及隐性和物质形式的知识创造。我们将在三个项目中试用这些方法，重点关注社区内的社会凝聚力，并探索从创意和艺术来源产生的研究方法如何支持和使社区研究人员能够进行自己的研究。我们将利用“共同生产遗产”研究项目，通过三个项目从我们的工作中获取资源，但将新的重点放在社会凝聚力上。项目团队将与国家社区研究组织ARVAC（志愿者和社区部门研究协会）以及来自谢菲尔德市议会和罗瑟勒姆大都会自治市议会的社会凝聚力专家合作，通过一系列重点项目将艺术方法嵌入社区研究中。这些项目将在罗瑟勒姆市中心的一所学校、一个社区环境（英国亚洲妇女团体）和英国谢菲尔德Pitsmoor的一个冒险游乐场进行。其目的是支持社区内利用艺术方法进行可持续和参与性的研究。结果将是在ARVAC网站上提供一组可下载的资源，这些资源可以使社区研究人员了解这类研究的潜力和开展这类研究的方法，利用案例研究并提供具体的实践例子，以便研究人员可以尝试他们自己的想法。这一资源将通过ARVAC与社会凝聚力领域的专家一起提供的国家网络进行传播。我们的目标是创建一种资源，将社区内艺术信息研究的力量和价值传播给新的受众，并使社区和关注社会凝聚力的志愿团体能够进行自己的研究并在社区内传播。

This project aims to create useful knowledge from a research project called 'Co-producing Legacy' that looked at what artistic understandings and knowledge contributed to research within the Connected Communities programme. The original project found that ways of doing things from artistic practice could inform community oriented research. These ways of doing things include methodologies that were founded on tacit, experiential, visual and linguistic knowledges that are open to change and can be experimental. Artists can produce paintings, write poems and create sculptures; they can also challenge or question how people think about the world and approach everyday experience from a 'slant' perspective. Methodologies stemming from these approaches can enable the production of poetry, visual art and film as outputs as well as create a questioning space where failure, experimentation and different ways of knowing are brought to the fore. These could be described as 'methods' but not in a social scientific mode of enquiry. Artistic methodologies might be open -ended, non consensus seeking and involve tacit and materially situated forms of knowledge creation. We are going to trial these methodologies within three projects with a focus on social cohesion within communities, and explore how research methods generated from creative and artistic sources can support and enable community researchers to do their own research. We will be producing resources from our work with three projects drawing on the 'Co-producing Legacy' research project, but with a new focus on social cohesion. The project team will work collaboratively with a national community research organisation, ARVAC (the Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community Sector) together with social cohesion experts from Sheffield City Council and Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council to embed artistic methodologies into community research through a series of focused projects. The projects will take place in a school in central Rotherham, a community context (British Asian Women's groups) and an adventure playground in Pitsmoor in Sheffield, UK.The aim is to support sustainable and participatory research within communities that draws on artistic methodologies. The outcome will be a set of downloadable resources on the ARVAC website that can inform community researchers about the potential of this sort of research and ways of approaching such research, drawing on case studies and providing concrete examples of practice so that researchers can try out their own ideas.This resource will be disseminated through the national networks that ARVAC can supply together with experts within the field of social cohesion. Our aim is to create a resource that disseminates the power and value of artistically informed research within communities to new audiences and can enable community and voluntary groups concerned about social cohesion to conduct their own research and disseminate this within communities.