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The Deep Dive session titled “How to Work with Arts and Artists to Enhance your Living Labs” aims to provide Living Lab practitioners with tangible examples of how to harness the power of art and artists in your context.
The days will explore big questions, such as why work with art and artists, what can art bring to your Living Lab and how to work with artists. Through tangible examples, practical workshops and site visits we hope you will come away feeling inspired and equipped to start working with artists in your Living Lab.
This Deep Dive will be hosted and facilitated by Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol’s Living Lab in the UK, on November 13 and 14, 2024. During the two-day training, participants will have the opportunity to network with other Living Lab members and gain insights into practical implementations through off site visits, in the Knowle West neighbourhood and across Bristol.
Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC)
The mission of the Living Lab is “Making fair and thriving neighbourhoods with art, tech & care”. Bristol Living Lab is run by Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC), a UK based non-profit arts organisation with 20 years’ experience of working with communities and individuals to understand how creativity and digital technologies can be utilised to meet local needs and address system change. It is a community based ‘enablerdriven’ Living Lab: KWMC acts as a ‘broker’ between citizens and organisations, ensuring that each participant in a particular project is able to contribute their knowledge and experience. KWMC adopts an ‘action research’ approach, where continual reflection and evaluation are built into the working process, and this enables KWMC to be flexible and responsive to the changing needs of partners and communities. It has a wide range of citywide, regional, and international networks that it actively works with and takes a ‘Commons’ Approach to sharing knowledge and learning
The target audience for this Deep Dive session includes both current and future Living Lab members who want to learn how working with art and artists can result in more inclusive engagement, increased citizen-led empowerment, more innovative outcomes and powerful stories that demonstrate impact, extend reach and raise profile.
This training would be appropriate for both established and new or prospective Living Labs, as long as there is a keen interest in exploring ways of working with artists.
Only 12 attendees will have the chance to participate in this training, available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Specifically, the session aims to benefit:
13 and 14 of November 2024
The morning will explore the question ‘Why work with art + artists’ – through tangible examples showing different ways that art and artists can impact, enhance, and be integrated with your Living Lab processes at different points.
The afternoon session will deep dive into ‘Artists + Inclusive engagement’ with a chance to try out different methods and tools and meet artists that KWMC has worked with in the past.
More information will be published soon.
The morning session will focus on ‘Artists + Prototyping’ with a chance to get hands on and practical with digital tools and methods and meet artists that KWMC have worked with in the past.
The afternoon session will focus on ‘Artists + Storytelling’ with a chance to experience the impact of powerful storytelling through creative methods.
More information will be published soon.
Throughout both days, the lessons and our facilitators will be supported by artists who will accompany you through this incredible, engaging learning opportunity. You will have space to get to know each other, network, and reflect on the lessons learned.
Would you like to discover more about our British ecosystem of Living Labs? Join us and our trainers for a final bonus half-day site visit (optional). More information will be published soon.
Whether you missed it or want to revisit key moments, this recap will bring you back into the heart of the experience!
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