Co-designing asset mapping: comparative approaches

基于资产的社区发展（ABCD）是一种强大的方法，用于连接社区计划中的各种社区和社区组织网络，以帮助发现和利用其隐藏的潜力，有形资源（如空间，服务和基础设施）和无形品质（如创意人才，技能，知识和社会资本）。资产摸底已作为一种社区参与、研究方法和共同设计工具加以部署，力求使各群体能够交流故事、关切和成就，并形成共同愿景和确定发展领域（个人、经济、环境、文化和社会）。通过将讨论方法与创造性技术（参与性制图、电影制作、视觉艺术和讲故事、游戏、数字媒体和戏剧表演）相结合，资产摸底被用来引发创造性的反应，以及创造性地记录、形象化和促成集体行动，这可能会改善群体和社区的生计及其空间、服务和环境。在这种情况下，“映射”的范围和可能的含义促使人们集中精力理解社区的不同探索模式、代表模式和参与模式。许多问题直接指向这个：映射的不同含义是什么？不同的方法捕捉了哪些类型的资产？不同的资产映射方法涉及哪些社会、文化、心理、道德、后勤背景？我们如何创造性地分析和反思从资产映射方法中获得的见解？如何更有效地沟通、表达和代表不同的基于资产的方法，以提高它们作为更广泛社区的资源的可用性？因此，有必要通过比较、合作思考和评价以及各种方法的相互借鉴来发展知识，并通过有意义的分析以及将促进学术研究的陈述和传播来发展有用的方法和战略，社区实践和政策辩论。我们在这个项目中的合作和方法是独一无二的，因为它旨在促进交流所采用的观点通过不同的方法，并促进跨人文科学，艺术和社会科学的资产测绘评估议程，既作为一种研究方法，也作为一种支持集体/社区参与和行动的共同设计/共同制作工具。我们的合作汇集了来自开放大学和皇家艺术学院、基尔大学、莱斯特大学和布鲁内尔大学的互联社区项目，以及希腊的社区合作伙伴The Glass-House、Young维克剧院和Atenistas Group。我们的方法已经挖掘到叙事和戏剧，文化动画和数字讲故事，小组讨论和创造性的可视化，参与式制图和游戏，并汇集了来自美国实用主义，设计研究和信息学，社区媒体和公民新闻的哲学观点，以及与场所营造和社区规划，创意网络和志愿服务有关的行动领域。该项目的创新交付模式包括通过实地考察旅行、与其他研究项目的知识交流和体验工作坊在现有的CC项目之间共享知识和资源，我们将共同设计方法，以探索资产映射在更广泛和跨国背景下的应用。我们将在工作坊中传播我们的研究结果，通过一个视觉网站和合作报告，并将我们的经验教训纳入参与该项目的七所大学的教学课程。我们的最终目标是围绕可持续发展的资产映射方法开发有意义的综合、流程和工具。

Asset based community development (ABCD) is a powerful approach being used with a diverse network of communities and community organizations across the Connected Communities programme to help uncover and utilize their hidden potential, their tangible resources (such as spaces, services and infrastructures) and intangible qualities (such as creative talents, skills, knowledge and social capital). Asset mapping has been deployed as a community engagement, research methodology and co-design tool seeking to enable groups to communicate stories, concerns and achievements but also to generate a shared vision and identify areas for development (personal, economic, environmental, cultural and social). Through a combination of discussion methods with creative techniques (participatory cartography, filmaking, visual art and storytelling, gaming, digital media and theatre performance), asset mapping has been used to trigger creative responses as well as creatively document, visualize and enable collective action, which could potentially improve the livelihoods of groups and communities, their spaces, services and environments. In this context, the scope and possible meanings of 'mapping' drives central effort into the understanding of the different modes of exploration and representation of, and engagement with, communities. A number of questions direct this: What are the different meanings of mapping? What types of assets are captured by different approaches? What are the social, cultural, psychological, ethical, logistical contexts involved in different asset mapping approaches? How can we creatively analyse and reflect on insights gained from asset mapping methodologies? How can the different asset based methodology be communicated, expressed and represented more effectively to enhance their availability as a resource to the wider community? It is thus necessary to develop knowledge that comes from comparison, collaborative reflection and evaluation, and, cross-pollination of approaches, and, to develop useful methods and strategies form meaningful analysis, as well as representation and dissemination that will advance academic research, community practice and policy debates.Our collaboration and approach in this project is unique in that it seeks to advance the exchange of perspectives adopted by the different approaches and to promote an agenda for the evaluation of asset mapping across the humanities, arts and social sciences, both as a research methodology and as a co-design/coproduction tool supporting collective/community engagement and action. Our collaboration brings together Connected Communities projects from the Open University and the Royal College of Art, and the Universities of Keele, Leicester and Brunel and community partners The Glass-House, Young Vic Theatre and Atenistas Group in Greece. Our methodologies have tapped into narrative and theatre, cultural animation and digital story-telling, group discussion and creative visualisation, participatory chartography and game-playing and brings together philosophical perspectives from American Pragmatism, design studies and informatics, community media and citizen journalism, and fields of action in relation to placemaking and neighbourhood planning, creative networks and volunteerism. The project's innovative mode of delivery includes sharing knowledge and resources among existing CC projects through - field research trips, knowledge exchange with other research projects and experiential workshops where we will co-design approaches for exploring the application of asset mapping in wider and transnational contexts.We will disseminate our findings in workshops, through a visual website and collaborative report and will feed our lessons into the teaching curricula of the seven universities taking part in the project. Our ultimate aim is to develop the meaningful syntheses, processes and tools around asset mapping approaches that can be sustained and developed.