Taking Yourselves Seriously: artistic approaches to social cohesion aims to explore how artistic methodologies contribute to social cohesion. It draws on a previous project that looked at what artists did when they worked with communities.
The project has been developed collaboratively with ARVAC (Association for Research with the Voluntary and Community sector) and Sheffield City Council and Rotherham MBC social cohesion teams.
The project team will develop an understanding of how artistic methodologies can support and develop spaces for social cohesion in community and educational contexts.
They will work in three settings:
- Pitsmoor Adventure Playground in Sheffield
- Clifton School in Rotherham
- Rotherham United Community Sports Trust
This is great news for Imagine researchers, community partners and collaborators who are on the project team including poet Helen Mort, artists Steve Pool and Zahir Rafiq, Zanib Rasool, (Rotherham United Community Sports Trust).
Kate Pahl is PI and the project runs from the 1 February 2017 for one year.
The project is in the early stages but has already been featured on the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Science’s ‘Where we live now’ blog.