HEdge Space
Creative Collaborations for Change
A Do-it-Together Toolkit.
Workshops
Outreach Workshop 2
Date: November 2021
Purpose: Outreach
Location: Gort Resource Centre
Participants: 1
Duration: 2 Hours
Praxis Workshop Structure:
The outreach workshop was organized into seven short activities:
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Participants meet and greet using post-its.
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Individual reflection through creative play using mixed media art materials & natural materials (e.g leaves and sticks)
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People share back insights from activity. to the group
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Facilitator offers the group an information input on AR-PAR,
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The group engages in a collaborative co-researching activity based on the broad question
'How do we make social-ecological change together? -
The group reflects on this activity and what thoughts or feelings it generated for them.
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Individual workshop evaluation and share back. Benefits (usefulness), challenge's of the process. Next steps.
This was a two hour workshop but could be expanded into a 2 day workshop depending on the context.
Introduction
This was a unique outreach workshop, having only one participant due to a number of last minute cancellations. Never the less,It was an opportunity for the attendee to explore the workshop practice and research, reflect on their own reasons for coming to the workshop, their social and environmental concerns, their activism and consider if they wished to become more involved in the project.
Participant motivations for coming to the workshop
I want to make more art in a collaborative way and process and act on environmental destruction
....capitalism is destroying the planet
Individual Play Activity
The participant mentions that they feel a lack of capacity at this time for other forms of activism, such as, strategy meetings & social media campaigns.
Benefits and usefulness, challenges, considerations suggestions
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Generative themes in this workshop
Overwhelmed by Ecological collapse. Feels helpless, capitalism is destroying the planet.
A desire for more artistic and collaborative ways to process and act on environmental destruction in solidarity with others rather than overly heady campaign work
Anti-Racist and Feminist positions
Participant engagement through the project.
This participant became a co-researcher and attended two core workshops and missed two.
They were involved in designing a creative collective action which occurred over two workshop events at Climate Camp 2022 and a zine making workshop. Below is a diagram of their praxis journey
Co-researching outcomes summary
These co-researching activities lead to the co-design of a creative space at Climate Camp 2022 where attendees could do lino printing making, reflect on the camp and build solidarity relationships. The artistic productions and critical reflections produced during the workshops were used to create an art-zine. A print edition of the zine was posted to Climate Camp attendees and additional copies have been widely distributed at grassroots community events.
A digital version of the zine can be found here:
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/70856598/climate-camp-zine-2022
The full Climate Camp action reports can be found here:
https://www.hedgespace.net/climate-camp-lino-print-workshop
and here