After the games and during the cuts: Action learning for community arts in a volatile ecology

TY - RPRT

T1 - After the games and during the cuts

T2 - Action learning for community arts in a volatile ecology

AU - French, Claire

PY - 2024/4

Y1 - 2024/4

N2 - This report articulates and examines the differences in cultures across action learning with community artists based on their varied approaches to facilitation.The results provide evidence for non-directive styles of facilitation as both bolder and potentially more mobilising in the creation of counter-discourse. Simultaneously, directive facilitation is shown to nurture individual actionable solutions for organisations which may function well in the contemporary individualist context in the United Kingdom (UK). The author places analyses in relationship to the currently volatile funding climate of Birmingham and the West Midlands region to suggest how combinations of these communicative methodologies may mobilise needed systemic and policy changes.Action learning is posed as creative and strategic methodologies for communication between community artists, and from artists to the community. Further horizons that feature responses to the current volatility are paired with the central role that community artists take in developing horizontal structures for sharing resources, and their use of communication as a vehicle for making and unmaking all change.

AB - This report articulates and examines the differences in cultures across action learning with community artists based on their varied approaches to facilitation.The results provide evidence for non-directive styles of facilitation as both bolder and potentially more mobilising in the creation of counter-discourse. Simultaneously, directive facilitation is shown to nurture individual actionable solutions for organisations which may function well in the contemporary individualist context in the United Kingdom (UK). The author places analyses in relationship to the currently volatile funding climate of Birmingham and the West Midlands region to suggest how combinations of these communicative methodologies may mobilise needed systemic and policy changes.Action learning is posed as creative and strategic methodologies for communication between community artists, and from artists to the community. Further horizons that feature responses to the current volatility are paired with the central role that community artists take in developing horizontal structures for sharing resources, and their use of communication as a vehicle for making and unmaking all change.

M3 - Report

BT - After the games and during the cuts

PB - Culture Central

ER -