Animating Heritage and Stigma

“遗产与耻辱”动画项目将以“联系社区”资助的两个项目——“遗产与耻辱”和“志愿服务的不为人知的故事”——的成功为基础。这些原始和离散项目的共同目标是允许他们的参与者帮助塑造他们参与的项目，从而以自己的方式代表自己。特别是，服务使用者和志愿者被邀请共同设计研究并共同生产其产出。这个新项目的目的是利用《遗产与耻辱》的发现，反映了心理健康和学习障碍的“平常性”，并使用《志愿服务的不为人知的故事》精心设计的技术来吸引新的受众。我们将利用遗产与耻辱组织收集和制作的现有证词，并通过文化动画（一种由“志愿服务的未知故事”开发的利益相关者参与和知识联合生产的方法）将其“动画化”，以探索关键主题。文化动画允许参与者通过戏剧、歌曲和其他创造性活动共同制作故事，为参与者提供“声音”。新维克剧院（New Vic Theatre）的团队和Kindle Partnerships是此次竞标的合作伙伴，他们率先提出了这一方案，包括承认和批判性地接近现有的权力和知识等级，并采取措施将其最小化。这种工作方式在最初的Heritage and Stigma项目中是不可预见的，该项目受到其职权范围的限制，无法捕捉服务用户的证词，并将其作为博物馆项目的一部分呈现。它的地理位置也很有限，主要集中在利兹市及其周边地区。同样，《不为人知的故事》的重点不是心理健康，而是利用其文化动画技术，合作伙伴将共同努力，通过与国家和国际一级的主要利益攸关方和决策者协商并向他们展示产出，确保这个新项目的长期遗产。这将使我们能够创造新的和有意义的传播方式，也扩大地理范围。它还将为广泛定义的社区团体开发并提供一个工具包，以探索他们自己的遗产和历史。来自社区团体的这种兴趣在最初的项目中也是不可预见的，而工具包将使我们能够赋予原始研究价值，而不仅仅是原始的联合制作人。为了实现我们的目标，项目团队已经确定了我们将与之合作的五个关键涉众组。这些人包括学校团体、心理健康和学习障碍专业人员、社会政策制定者、美国和日本的国际“看门人”以及社区研究人员。在最初的Heritage and Stigma竞标中没有预见到这些群体，这些利益相关者被选中，不仅是因为他们对项目的需求和兴趣，还因为他们有能力影响组织变革。在每个案例中，参与者将被介绍遗产和耻辱所产生的问题，重点是接受和理解边缘化群体的途径。总体而言，该项目将鼓励参与者挑战污名化的概念，以提高对边缘化群体的理解和接受程度。该项目的主要成果将是：1。共同创作和传播一个变革性的戏剧，在项目的生命周期内和以后在学校使用。2. 制作文化动画材料，与戏剧一起使用，为心理健康专业人员的培训提供信息，了解患者和服务使用者的观点。3. 为社区研究人员创建一个“工具包”，以探索他们自己的历史，这些历史将在项目生命周期的关键时刻进行测试和共享。4. 在国家和国际两级共同创造和传播项目产出，以便就护理的性质和未来开展包容性对话。

The Animating Heritage and Stigma project will build on the successes of two Connected Communities funded programmes - Heritage and Stigma, and Untold Stories of Volunteering. The shared aims of these original and discrete projects were to allow their participants to help shape the projects they were part of and thus represent themselves in their own terms. In particular, service users and volunteers were invited to co-design the research and co-produce its output. This new project aims to take the findings from Heritage and Stigma, which reflected the 'ordinariness' of mental health and learning disability, and use the techniques crafted by the Untold Stories of Volunteering to reach new audiences. We will use the existing testimonies collected and created by Heritage and Stigma and 'animate' them by employing Cultural Animation, a methodology of stakeholder engagement and knowledge co-production developed by Untold Stories of Volunteering to explore key themes. Cultural animation allows participants to co-produce stories using plays, songs and other creative activities to give participants a 'voice'. Pioneered by the team at the New Vic Theatre and Kindle Partnerships, who are partners on this bid, it involves acknowledging and critically approaching existing power and knowledge hierarchies and taking steps to minimise them. This way of working was unforeseen in the original Heritage and Stigma project,which was limited by its terms of reference to capture service user testimonies and to present them as part of a museum project. It was also limited in terms of its geography focusing in and around the Leeds city region. Similarly, the focus of Untold Stories was not on mental health but by employing its Cultural Animation techniques the partners will work together to ensure the long-term legacy of this new project by consulting with and showcasing outputs to key stakeholders and policy makers on a national and international level. This will allow us to create new and meaningful ways of dissemination that also broaden the geographical scope. It will also develop and provide a toolkit for community groups, broadly defined, to explore their own heritage and histories. This interest from community groups was also unforeseen in the original projects and toolkits will allow us to give the original research value beyond the original group of co-producers. To achieve our goals, the project team has identified five key stakeholder groups with whom we will work. These are school groups, mental health and learning disability professionals, social policy makers, international 'gatekeepers' in the USA and Japan, and community researchers. None of these groups were foreseen in the original Heritage and Stigma bid and these stakeholders have been chosen, not only for their demand and interest in the project but also because of their ability to effect organisational change. In each case, the participants will be introduced to the issues arising from Heritage and Stigma, focusing on the pathways to acceptance and understanding of marginalised groups. Overall the project will encourage participants to challenge notions of stigma with a view to improving the understanding and acceptance of marginalised groups. The project's key outcomes will be: 1. The co-creation and dissemination of a transformative drama for use in schools during the lifetime of the project and beyond. 2. The development of cultural animation materials to be used in conjunction with the drama to inform the training of mental health professionals in an understanding of patient and service user perspectives. 3. The creation of a 'toolkit' for community researchers to explore their own histories which will be tested and shared at key points in the life time of the project. 4. The co-creation and dissemination of project outputs to policy makers at a national and international level with a view to creating inclusive dialogues about the nature and future of care.