Nomad Glossary

Co-creatie is een vorm van samenwerking, waarbij alle deelnemers invloed hebben op het proces en het resultaat van dit proces, zoals een plan, advies of product. Kenmerken van co-creatie zijn dialoog, 'common ground', enthousiasme, daadkracht en focus op resultaat

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‘Co-creation’ can mean many things and is a very important idea being shared in lots of areas of public service. For Remembering Together, when we say ‘co-creation’ it is about bringing individuals and communities into relationship with artists and/or creative practitioners to create something together that captures and remembers their experiences of the Covid pandemic.

Artists/creative practitioners use creative tools such as drawing, making, dancing, singing, writing or more to explore with people. Using their artistic or creative medium these explorations become part of a bigger picture of something, themes start to emerge, or recurring images, or words. Maybe lots of different words or images emerge and a picture of something really diverse or contradictory starts to take shape.

These tools enable people to express themselves in different ways and the artist helps to shape these these expressions into something whole. The artist or creative practitioner keeps co-creating with the people involved at every stage meaning that whatever comes out at the end has been explored, made, authored, created by everyone involved. The important parts of co-creation are that it is creative and that it is done together with artists/creative practitioners and communities.

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Nina Simon is an American museum director who has written about these issues in The Participatory Museum. In a chapter on ‘Co-creating with visitors’, she suggests that ‘Co-creative projects originate in partnership with participants rather than based solely on institutional goals’. The idea of shared decision-making would have been unthinkable to previous generations of curators (and to some today) but it is becoming accepted, at least on the margins of curatorial work. Nina Simon suggests three reasons for taking this approach:

To give voice and be responsive to the needs and interests of local community members
To provide a place for community engagement and dialogue
To help participants develop skills that will support their own individual and community goals.

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Examples of Co-Creation

Heart of Glass:
Our core philosophy is inspired by co-production - communities and artists making together. People are central to both our thinking and our practice. We are interested in building communities of enquiry, in sharing skills and experience, and placing art in direct interaction with all areas of life. The results of this activity ranges from theatre to visual art, and everything in between.

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Rotterdams wijktheater:
Wij geloven erin dat cultuur de basis vormt voor een evenwichtige samenleving; een samenleving waar iedereen deel van moet kunnen uitmaken. Waar ieders stem kan worden gehoord en ieders verhaal een podium heeft. Het RWT maakt daarom al 30 jaar theatervoorstellingen voor en door mensen die voor het eerst kennismaken met theater. Theater prikkelt ons inlevingsvermogen. Theater laat je voelen wat het is om in andermans schoenen te staan.

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Theoretical:

“A strange or unusual habit, way of behaving, or feature that someone or something has.” -

“Human behavior is idiosyncratic: what elicits a certain behavior in one person is often very different from what elicits that same behavior in another (Eilam, 2015; Forkosh et al., 2019)”

- View ORCID ProfileJohan Nakuci, Jiwon Yeon, Kai Xue, Ji-Hyun Kim, Sung-Phil Kim, Dobromir Rahnev

“Idiosyncratic art, Kuspit posits, is a radically personal art that establishes unconscious communication between individuals in doubt of their identity. Functioning as a medium of self-identification, it affords a sense of authentic selfhood and communicative intimacy in a postmodern society where authenticity and intimacy seem irrelevant and absurd.” - Donald Burton Kuspit, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Theoretical:

“intensely physical orientation : predominance of the physical usually at the expense of the mental, spiritual, or social”

noun, plural phys·i·cal·i·ties.

the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
preoccupation with one's body, physical needs, or appetites.

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Theoretical:

“Participatory art is a term that describes a form of art that directly engages the audience in the creative process so that they become participants in the event”

“Participatory art (also called socially engaged art or community-based art) uses artistic tactics to work towards the creation of participation within a community. It questions the critical role that we—artists, artist educators, and workshop facilitators—play.”

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The obliteration room

“Yayoi Kusama's interactive Obliteration Room begins as a white space which visitors are invited to cover with stickers. Over the course of a few weeks the room is transformed from a blank canvas into an explosion of colour, with thousands of spots stuck over every available surface.”