Accessible Text Alternative for Inclusive Heritage Co-Creation Scale
A table graphic showing an example of a co-creation scale. It consists of 7 themed columns of black text or coloured backgrounds, underneath an arrow graphic that lists them in order from passive to active.
A line of text underneath the columns reads: "Considerations of disability, accessibility and other barriers to access must be factored into all these approaches".
Audience
Communities will consume the outputs (a book, an exhibition, a performance, a film) that are otherwise created by professionals, paid heritage staff & commissioned artists.
Subjects
Communities are interviewed, photographed or filmed telling their stories/sharing their knowledge.
Researchers/artists
Communities conduct research on a given subject in a particular way, pre-determined by professionals.
Communities create artwork that informs a larger scale artwork determined by an artist
(e.g. communities create paintings/small scale mosaics that inspire a professional artist to produce a professional quality painting/mosaic)
Active subjects
Communities are interviewed, photographed or filmed telling their stories/sharing their knowledge, they then help to shape how this is edited/interpreted/shared.
Passive subjects/active collectors
Communities are interviewed, photographed or filmed telling their stories/sharing their knowledge by other community members (e.g. young people interview older people, fellow football fans, or club members interview each other)
Researchers/artists
Communities conduct research on a subject that they decide on, in ways they want to, they are supported by professionals, or through peer support.
Communities acquire skills throughout design phase to allow them to assist the artist in the making of the final artwork, or they create the final artwork while facilitated by the artist.
Communities play a part in deciding the medium they work with, and may even have a hand in deciding which artist or artists to work with.
Leaders
Communities decide the area to research/uncover/interpret, either with or without structured facilitation there are no set outputs or outcomes, the entire project depends on what the communities want to pursue, what skills they want to learn, and what they want to get out of the project (including soft outputs like friendship, a sense of community).
