Week beginning 15th February 2024
Facilitation, Participation and Collaboration
This weeks lectures centered around the topics of Facilitation, Participation and Collaboration.
Facilitation
Act of assisting or making easier the progress
Definitions of facilitation. act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something. type of: aid, assist, assistance, help. the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.
Participation
The action of taking part in something.
Collaboration
STRUCTURE
Type 1: Sharing 'The basics’
Sharing information/resources/ opportunities between individuals, who otherwise maintain their individual practices.
This is the essential first step of any collaboration.
Type 2: Co-ordination
'Doing what we each do, in a more co-ordinated way’.
-Individuals informally do things together, influence each other's work
-Joint effort is on practicalities - or thinking and supporting each other's process.
Type 3: Co-operation
'We are doing this specific thing(s) together’.
- Cooperation between individuals contributes to of
collective outcome(s)
- Influence, resources and ideas flow between collaborators. - -
- Creation of joint works. Space for individual work.
Type 4: Integration
'This is us’
- Individual contributions are part of collaborative effort
- Fully negotiated and integrated structure
- Shared responsibility
- Collective outputs
PROCESS
Hierarchical
A group of people working together to realize the goal of one lead ARTIST.
Responsive
One person starts and then passes the idea on. The result is collaborative but the process is asynchronous and individual.
Devised/Collective Creation
Improvisation confined to the creation process: a lengthy collaborative development process;
Improvised
This goes further than devising, to create and / or perform something with a common group conscience..
Adam
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