Can We Create a Creative Community?

Lees, Jonty (2014) Can We Create a Creative Community? Doctoral thesis, University of Southampton.

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Can We Create a Creative Community?
University of Southampton
Supervised by Professor Jonathan Harris, Birmingham City University, and Lindsey Fryer, Head of Learning, Tate Liverpool
October 2014 –

This is the third project in a series of four AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award partnerships between Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art and Design, University of Southampton and Tate Liverpool.

The practice-based research explores the potential for artist, organisation and audience to have interchangeable roles, and poses the question, ‘What happens when the band members swap instruments?’.

This investigation seeks to understand and recognise the value non-experts offer in the creation of content and learning, and examines how the enhanced role of the audience impacts on the function of artists and galleries. Structured through a sequence of case studies, beginning with Tate Liverpool’s newly formed Community Collective, the work will identify how this active audience aims to engage with the gallery in meaningful ways.

The research draws on improvisation as a technique to develop imagination and creativity and suggests ‘doing’ activates stimulus and direction. The Community Collective setting employs discussion and debate to advance ideas, pinpoint goals, solve problems and create meaning. It also establishes a social environment where co-operation, skill sharing and respect combine to construct a productive and inclusive setting.

Item Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Subjects:	Arts > Fine Art Research
Depositing User:	Jonty Lees
Date Deposited:	14 Sep 2021 11:48
Last Modified:	23 Nov 2023 14:04
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/3156

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