The interventions
Phil Jones (UoB)Yvette Vaughan Jones (Visiting Arts)
Work Package 5: Interventions
• Lead: Phil Jones• Input: Yvette Vaughan Jones / Paul Heywood /
Andrew Dubber• Case studies in: Birmingham / Manchester• Aim: attempting to develop, commission and
test innovative modes of intermediation• Commissions led by communities worked with
in the Communities Work Package
Using art as method
Participant creativity
• Researchers are now comfortable asking for creative outputs from participants
• Art-as-therapy – Different media to express the inexpressible
• Mental mapping (Gould & White, 1974)– Differing representations of the same spaces
• Participatory photography– ‘Empower’ participants to capture ‘their’ spaces– (cf. Collier, 1957 on photo elicitation)
Lorne, 2011
Arts-based research
• Patricia Leavy (2009) Method meets art• Pirkko Markula (2006) on dance– Experimental, doesn’t always work in the way
intended• Increasing acceptance that arts practice can
be used as a tool for researching ‘social science’ topics
Creative engagements
Hybrid activity
• Using a practice-based approach to engage participant creativity
• BUT it’s the participants who commission the practice in the first place
• Most flexible part of the project– Part of the budget not predefined except
earmarked for commissions by local panels– One commission pre-allocated to further explore
the Visiting Arts Square Mile method