Creative Equity Toolkit

Collaboration: the good, the bad and the ugly

Co-Directors of Aphids & Aphids discuss collaboration tools including explicit conversations around crediting, project expectations and the environments where the collaboration will take place (do you you meet in a cafe or a bar or the park?). Daily check-ins on the workloads and responsibilities of each collaborator, such as childcare responsibilities and energy levels are recommended, as well as allowing transparent access to administrative documents, and information on scheduling and budgets.

Commissioning New Adventures: Building an Inclusive Process

Blog describing the commissioning process designed to increase diversity of scriptwriters in new series of the popular ‘Zombies Run!’ exercise game, first using ‘blind’ anonymous read-throughs to shortlist, then assessing writer bios to ‘promote’ submissions from under-represented groups.

'In every case where we felt our shortlist was unbalanced, we promoted extra submissions rather eliminating others. We worked by addition rather than subtraction.'

Considering Co-Creation

A report commissioned by the Arts Council England that shares thoughts on principles, ethics, and references in the area of co-creation by two organisations that deal with socially engaged arts - and presents new ideas that challenge current paradigms of community arts. While it is not an exhaustive work, it features a literature review and a survey of 77 practitioners and contributors.

Supplementary materials such as podcasts and a survey analysis are included as part of this research.

Curator/Confidant

Hannah Presley speaks to the curatorial approach that has guided her through working with individual artists, community groups, not-for-profit galleries, international art Biennales and national institutions. Hannah shares her belief in the central role of transparency, vulnerability and humour in forming valuable relationships with artists, and examines the deeper values of knowledge-sharing and exchanging ideas that inform her practice.