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