Abstract
This paper examines the potential of co-produced arts-based methodologies through the lens of a social cohesion project, from the perspectives of five artists. Arts methodologies can be useful in working across different disciplines and across university and community boundaries to create equitable knowledge production processes. The ways in which art is used in community settings as a mode of collaboration are explored, using the reflections from five artists who were involved in the social cohesion project together. This paper argues that co-producing artistic approaches to social cohesion is a complex, multilayered and sometimes fragile process, but that recognizing and discussing understandings of the role of power and voice within co-produced projects enables effective team communication.
Highlights
In this paper, the relationship between different arts methodologies as a method of building social cohesion is examined, through the lens of a co-produced arts project
Creating potential for arts methodologies to create space for social cohesion This paper explores the aspirations of a co-produced arts-based approach to build social cohesion
This paper has considered arts methodologies as an approach to building social cohesion
Summary
The relationship between different arts methodologies as a method of building social cohesion is examined, through the lens of a co-produced arts project. In valuing multiple knowledges – experiential, artistic and academic – artistic methodologies offer the opportunities to produce different kinds of knowledge (Facer and Pahl, 2017) This knowledge can be important for expressing notions of belonging and identity, which can be explored using arts-based methodologies to build social cohesion. The paper explores the aspirations of an arts-based approach, arguing that co-producing artistic methodologies to build social cohesion is a complex, multilayered and sometimes fragile process. The project sought to develop the potential for arts-based practice to create a space for social cohesion It should, be recognized that ‘social cohesion’ is a contested term, which can be discussed from three linked yet competing perspectives. The project upon which this paper is based developed a collaborative methodology that saw community practitioners working alongside artists and academics, using arts-based approaches to building social cohesion. Taking this collaborative approach foregrounded issues of power and trust within the wider project that were key to the willing interaction of creativity
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