Effectiveness in Action

行动中的有效性这一建议结合了温和破坏的艺术知识方法论，以及对使社区行动有效的反射性兴趣，利用社区参与变革的不同风格的专业知识，分享对新的联合设计过程中影响的证据的思考。参与者研究已经开始表明，温和的颠覆过程对于激励一个群体走到一起是多么有用，并通过改变预期和方向，在他们最初的框架之外找到新的终点。这与大量研究表明，创新、打破安全、传统或限制性的思维模式以及扰乱规范之间的关系是一致的。在这里，我们使用温和的颠覆作为联合设计的基础，研究如何将这种潜在的广泛和有价值的方法从传统的艺术家或设计师主导的实践扩展到设计委员会所称的“解决社区问题的集体思维和设计”(www.Design council.org.uk/resources-and-events/designers/design-glossary/co-design/)；)，以启发基于群体的设计思维；并为在行动环境中产生创造性一致的新概念工具提供燃料。通过这种方式，它将增进对共同创造领域和促进这一领域的工具的了解。这项提议的第一阶段涉及一个过程，将几个团体聚集在一起，探讨使社区行动有效的共同点。我们将举办两个活动，第一个是围绕现有知识；第二个是将这些洞察力发展到协作创新中。这两个活动都将以三个参与小组的创作作品为特色，并委托这些小组激发所有人感兴趣的主题，并继续进行编织过程，让所有合作伙伴作为积极的同事，确定和加强共同关注的问题。这些创造性的作品通过协作活动提供了反思的空间，并呈现了每个群体的观点，以便其他人可以对其做出反应。提案的第二部分暗示了这一进程可能产生的结果，以及支持第一阶段的反思的哪些方面可以纳入继续共同工作。由于第一阶段的重点是在大学和社区研究人员之间合作确定第二阶段的研究问题将是什么，关于内容几乎没有什么可说的，但第二阶段将在形式上与第一阶段形成对比，因为它将寻求回答特定问题，而不是激发反思本身。

Effectiveness in ActionThis proposal brings together the arts-informed methodology of gentle disruption, with a reflexive interest in what makes community action effective, drawing on expertise from contrasting styles of community engagement in change-making, to share reflection on evidence of impact in a novel co-design process. Participant research has begun to show how useful a process of gentle disruption can be in inspiring a group to come together and, through changes in expectation and orientation, find new endpoints outside the framing they started with. This is in keeping with a body of research demonstrating the relationship between innovation, breaking out of safe, traditional or limiting paradigms of thought and upsetting norms. We use gentle disruption, here, as the basis for co-design, researching how we might extend this potentially broad and valuable approach from conventional artist- or designer-led practice into what the Design Council has called 'collective thinking and designing that addresses a community's issues' (www.design council.org.uk/resources-and-events/designers/design-glossary/co-design/); to inspire group-based designerly thinking; and to fuel new conceptual tools for generating creative accord in action contexts. In this way, it will advance understanding in the field of co-creation and the tools that can facilitate it.The first phase of this proposal involves a process which brings several groups together to explore common ground in making community action effective. We will stage two events, the first around existing knowledge; the second developing these insights into collaborative innovation. Both will feature creative works by the three participating groups, which are being commissioned to elicit a theme of interest to all and to continue a weaving process that involves all partners as active co-workers in identifying and building on a joint focus. These creative works give space for reflection through collaborative activity and present each group's perspective so that others can react to it. The second part of the proposal hints at what might come out of this process, and which aspects of the reflection that underpins the first phase might be incorporated in continuing the work together. As the point of phase one is to determine collaboratively - between university and community researchers - what the research question in the second phase will be, there is little to say about content, but phase two will contrast in form from phase one in that it will seek to answer a particular question rather than stimulate reflection per se.