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

互联社区(CC)计划让艺术家以多种方式参与，既作为促进者，作为社区参与的机制，作为诗人、电影制作人、画家，提供讲习班和手工艺课程，也作为研究人员。然而，它们对与社区合作伙伴共同创造知识的贡献还没有得到充分的了解。这个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如何在这些项目中刺激特定类型的变化。这将包括对所有250个项目的审查，以及关于艺术实践和联合制作的文献回顾，然后更详细地关注以创新方式使用艺术家的六个项目。在2013年7月爱丁堡首脑会议上发展的现有关系和新关系的基础上，选定了三个案例研究。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已经改变的方式，以及将改变CC项目的概念化、开发和交付的方式，以及艺术实践支持联合制作方法的程度。然后，这将作为对AHRC CC长期战略的投资，该战略可以指导未来涉及艺术家参与与社区共同制作的项目的研究。询问的形式将通过工作室作为过程。工作室是一个概念空间，团队在这里形成和发展一些东西，这些东西来自我们认识到已经在工作的东西。它涉及到一群人，他们在大学的结构之外运作，承认不同类型的专业知识--所有参与者都可以成为“专家”。它能够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、一个数字环境，也不是一套结构化的会议。从根本上说，它是一种方法，而不是一种制度。我们将利用工作室共同制作一份关于艺术家角色的调查报告。我们的目标是通过一个具体的调查来说明艺术家在社区环境中的工作方式，他们如何在社区内和已经资助的项目中做出贡献。尽管我们把重点放在艺术家身上，但我们认为这是探索CC项目遗产及其更广泛的联合制作方法的一种方式。项目组将在与文化政策制定领域的国家政策制定者的对话中提出这一问题。该项目团队包括艺术家、A-N艺术家信息公司、卡斯特尔菲尔德画廊、社区合作伙伴、艺术家研究人员和来自不同学科的学者。这项研究将通过反思、行动和一个合作的工作室空间来探索艺术家与社区合作的过程，这将导致一系列行动、论文和报告提交给AHRC互联社区方案。在这样做的过程中，该团队还将更密切地审视围绕艺术家在社区的工作的道德框架，借鉴社区合作伙伴的工作。该项目还将被传播，并与提供支持的英国国家身体艺术委员会和A-N艺术家信息公司进行讨论。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，团队包括那些已经参与CC项目的人，以及新的学者、艺术家和社区合作伙伴。我们的成果将包括一个共享博客、一篇联合文章、一个展览、一份对互联社区计划的报告以及四篇讨论论文和一本关于工作室空间的书，重点是作为一个计划的互联社区遗产。

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.