{"id":859,"date":"2016-09-16T18:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachel.we-are-low-profile.com\/blog\/?p=859"},"modified":"2017-12-07T12:06:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T12:06:25","slug":"social-making-plymouth-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachel.we-are-low-profile.com\/blog\/social-making-plymouth-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Making Symposium – Plymouth 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social Making Symposium – Plymouth<\/span><\/h1>\n
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Kim Wide – Director, Take A Part, Plymouth. Photo credit: Take A Part<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Social Making was organised by Plymouth-based social makers Take A Part<\/a> – focussing on the methodologies employed by a range of socially engaged practitioners operating in the UK (and further afield) and the human scale impacts of chosen case studies. The organisation’s careful, embedded and grounded approach was echoed in their selection of contributors, who ranged from social science academics, local community organisers and embedded practitioners \/ researchers, to internationally renowned public art producers, Turner Prize winners and the Director of Public Health at Plymouth City Council.<\/p>\n

Each speaker and project referenced was dealt with in the spirit of Jacques Ranci\u00e8re’s \u201cequality of intelligences\u201d, an approach that does not assume that the role of ‘experts’ is to ‘fix’ problems within communities or to simply disseminate\/broadcast their findings. Rather, the event operated on the basis that the gathered audience (and the communities involved in the highlighted projects) were not reliant on arts professionals, local authorities, funders or organisations to provide answers, but instead that newly instigated conversations initiated at the event would lead to collective learning through shared insights from which new knowledge and understanding is constructed.<\/p>\n

Here’s\u00a0Kelechi Nnoaham’s opening address…<\/p>\n