Collaboratory

Maya Haviland & Nicole Deen

Collaboratory is a podcast that explores co-creativity in action. In each episode we focus on stories and dynamics of co-creative practice we think need talking about, with guests whose practice range from art and culture, education, community and organisational development, public and for purpose sectors and much more. Hosted by Dr Maya Haviland and Nicole Deen, Collaboratory draws on research and real world experience to deepen and sustain our understanding of collaboration and co-creativity across cultures, communities and organisations. It is produced by the Scaffolding Cultural CoCreativity Project, hosted at the Australian National University on Ngunnawal, Ngambri and Ngunawal country. read less

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Conservation, Community & Collective Voices: A Conversation with Jaime Jackett

Conservation, Community & Collective Voices: A Conversation with Jaime Jackett

What does a new moon have to do with conservation, community, co-creativity and music? We answer this interesting and exciting question in this special episode of Collaboratory Conversations featuring Broome-based musician and collaborative artist, Jaime Jackett. Topics explored include: The creation and collaborative process behind "The Shorebird Quest", a musical theatre show which celebrates the migratory shorebirds of Roebuck Bay Jaime’s co-created musical practice, passion for the power of singing and the recent release of her song “Cradle to Caves”, written and performed in collaboration with her band, Belle Miners, and visitors to a number of Tasmanian national parks The importance of having an open-mind and being flexible when approaching or engaging in a co-creative endeavour Transcript To ensure accessibility we are committed to providing transcripts of all our podcast episodes - you can read the full transcript here. Resources The Shorebird Quest

Conservation, Community & Collective Voices: A Conversation with Jaime Jackett

Conservation, Community & Collective Voices: A Conversation with Jaime Jackett

What does a new moon have to do with conservation, community, co-creativity and music? We answer this interesting and exciting question in this special episode of Collaboratory Conversations featuring Broome-based musician and collaborative artist, Jaime Jackett. Topics explored include: The creation and collaborative process behind "The Shorebird Quest", a musical theatre show which celebrates the migratory shorebirds of Roebuck Bay Jaime’s co-created musical practice, passion for the power of singing and the recent release of her song “Cradle to Caves”, written and performed in collaboration with her band, Belle Miners, and visitors to a number of Tasmanian national parks The importance of having an open-mind and being flexible when approaching or engaging in a co-creative endeavour Transcript To ensure accessibility we are committed to providing transcripts of all our podcast episodes - you can read the full transcript here. Resources The Shorebird Quest

Values in Action

Values in Action

Reflecting on the values, mindsets and attitudes that we bring to our work is critical for fostering co-creativity. Our guests Dimitrios Papalexis and Aruna Venkatachalam, who work within the community development arts and corporate sectors, share insights about what guides their work and how they have put these values into practice. Topics explored include: How Dimitrios and Aruna’s unique life experiences, cultural influences and exposure to different worldviews have shaped their values and how they work Useful frameworks and tools for fostering co-creativity and identifying the strengths of a community or organisation, such as asset-based community development (ABCD) and ‘jugaad’, a strengths-based approach The value of creating safe spaces which facilitate collaboration and trusting relationships and how the cultures of the organisations and systems we work in can greatly influence how we work and interact with others, and The importance of looking within and possibl

Collaboratory Season Break Notice

Collaboratory Season Break Notice

Thank you for listening to and engaging with the Collaboratory podcast. We wanted to let you know that we will be taking a break to do some back-end production work and will be back with new episodes from April 2023. In the meantime, check out episodes that you may have missed, and please provide us with your feedback. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us about Collaboratory - what you like, what you think can be improved and any topics that you would like the podcast to cover by completing this survey: https://forms.gle/oDTNCvrgxyWSXsvEA Transcript To ensure accessibility we are committed to providing transcripts of all our podcast episodes - you can read the full transcript here. Resources Catch up on past episodes of Collaboratory: Laying the Foundations for Co-Creation What is the Co? Intellectual Property and Agreement: A Conversation with Dr Diana James Building Trusting Relationships A Co

Music, Co-Creativity and Cultures: A Conversation with Kim Cunio

Music, Co-Creativity and Cultures: A Conversation with Kim Cunio

Music provides a fascinating example of co-creativity in action – whether that be through the coming together of instruments and performers, the space in which the music is played, or the process of audience members listening to music. Musician and academic, Kim Cunio, reflects on the co-creative musical projects that he has been involved with and shares insights into the responsibilities that different cultural roles and relationships require of us. Topics explored include: Embracing the complexities of being positioned as the ‘other’ when engaging in non-traditional research How Kim’s diverse cultural background combined with his creative and technical skills influences his approach to musical practice The process of seeking cultural authority to work with particular knowledges and traditions The challenges of transferring a co-creative musical approach into organisational and institutional settings such as universities How music can help us understand what co-creati

Navigating Positionality and Power

Navigating Positionality and Power

How can our identities, knowledge, values and biases influence how we work? Our guests Kaira Zoe Cañete, Emma Blomkamp, Shona Coyne and Jilda Andrews seek to answer this question by drawing from their co-creative experiences from various sectors including social policy, academic research, and cultural institutions. Topics they explore include: The importance of recognising our positionality to assess our roles in co-creative practices and identify any blind spots or biases How to navigate the ‘middle ground’ and develop an understanding and appreciation for multiple perspectives Techniques for understanding the impacts of positionality on our practice, such as peer learning and reflection Transcript To ensure accessibility we are committed to providing transcripts of all our podcast episodes - you can read the full transcript here. Resources Definitions of Positionality: Positionality - Dictionary.com and Positionality and Intersectionality - The University

Community Engagement and Consent: A Conversation with Azure Hermes

Community Engagement and Consent: A Conversation with Azure Hermes

Community engagement and ensuring informed consent are highly important processes when engaging in co-creative research with Indigenous communities. Azure Hermes, Deputy Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics (NCIG), shares her experiences navigating through these processes in her work with Indigenous communities consulting about potential uses of historical blood samples held by NCIG. Topics explored in the conversation with Azure include: Azures' process of learning how to do community engagement on complex and sometimes contentious issues Changes in ethical standards over time for conducting genetic medical research, and engaging Indigenous people in research in general How effective process of community engagement can form the basis of trust, protocols of access and informed consent, even for potentially unknown future uses of research material The challenges associated with gaining iterative consent, where consent is gained multiple times during a pr

Skills for Co-Creative Relationships

Skills for Co-Creative Relationships

What are the skills and capabilities that are really important to facilitate co-creative processes? In this episode we hear thoughts on this question from a range of collaborative practitioners including three main guests David Lilley, Johanna De Ruyter and Callie Doyle Scott, who share insights from their diverse practice across theatre, business, social change and role play games. Topics we explore include: The mindsets and attitudes conducive to collaborating effectively with others What we can learn from tabletop role play game facilitation skills and improv theatre The essential, but often overlooked, soft skills we need, such as listening and flexibility How we can go about learning and practicing these skills and capabilities over time What’s needed to build relationships that generate new, more imaginative, creative, innovative possibilities, actions or ideas or responses Transcript To ensure accessibility we are committed to providing transcripts of a

Co-created Research: A Conversation with Kaira Zoe Cañete

Co-created Research: A Conversation with Kaira Zoe Cañete

In this episode of the Collaboratory Conversation Series, Kaira Zoe Cañete shares reflections from her recent PhD research in the Philippines, and offers some practical advice on what it takes to co-create research that gives back to its participants rather than just extracting knowledge. In this edited conversation with Kaira, we explore: How Kaira’s background influenced the approach she took to her research The development and use of her photo-based research tool with women in urban communities in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan How she approached and engaged with women as co-creative research participants The complexities of sharing power and control in a research project The importance of self-reflection and awareness as a researcher The value of co-creative research for participants While Kaira's story focuses on academic research, the experiences and insights she shares are relevant for anyone wanting to engage authentically with communi

Symbiosis as Co-Creativity

Symbiosis as Co-Creativity

In this episode of Collaboratory, Dr Maya Haviland talks with Professor Celeste Linde and Dr Merryn McKinnon about what the science of symbiosis, and fungi in particular, can teach us about the dynamics of co-creativity. Read the full show notes on our website scccp.net/collaboratory/ Transcript To ensure accessibility we are committed to providing transcripts of all our podcast episodes - you can read the full transcript here. Guests Professor Celeste Linde is a researcher focused on fungal-plant-interactions. Her work includes both applied and pure research on a range of important pathogens as well as plant beneficial organisms such as mycorrhizal fungi. She is also interested in evolutionary aspects of plant-fungal-interactions, often utilising population genetic and phylogenetic tools to investigate fungal biology. You can find Celeste online at Australian National University website, Research Gate Dr Merryn McKinnon is a scientist and science co

A Conversation with Jenni Savigny & Stephen Corey: Digital Storytelling

A Conversation with Jenni Savigny & Stephen Corey: Digital Storytelling

In this episode of Collaboratory Conversations, we hear from Artistic Director of Gen S Stories, Jenni Savigny and her collaborator Stephen Corey, as they share their experiences supporting non-professional storytellers to create personal digital stories as a form of community development and living social history. Read the full show notes on our website scccp.net/collaboratory/ This conversation is an edited version of a live recording made at the ACT Heritage Library in Canberra, Australia in 2021, on the occasion of an exhibition called "The Art of the Story Circle", which celebrated 10 years of collaborative storytelling with communities through Gen S Stories. Transcript To ensure accessibility we are committed to providing transcripts of all our podcast episodes - you can read the full transcript here. Guests Jenni Savigny is the Artistic Director of Gen S Stories and has made a professional practice as a digital storytelling facilitator, encompassing 10

Building Trusting Relationships

Building Trusting Relationships

Trust and the relationships from which trust stems are critical foundations to co-creative processes. Whether making theatre shows, or trying to pass legislation across political divides, trusting relationships between people involved in any collaborative enterprise is an important ingredient to getting things done. In this episode, we hear from several people who have firsthand experience fostering trusting relationships for very different types of co-creative enterprises. Read the full show notes on our website scccp.net/collaboratory/ This episode features guests, Ali Clinch, Robin Davidson, Natalie Barr, Aruna Venkatachalam, and Anni Doyle Wawrzynczak. Transcript To ensure accessibility we are committed to providing transcripts of all our podcast episodes - you can read the full transcript here. Interested in more? We have a growing list of blogposts and other resources on the Collaboratory Podcast blog page. Guests Ali Clinch is an Artist and Creative Pr

Intellectual Property and Agreements: A Conversation with Dr Diana James

Intellectual Property and Agreements: A Conversation with Dr Diana James

In this episode, Dr Diana James shares some of her early experiences of cultural co-creativity and the relationships and learning which laid important foundations for the Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters exhibition to take place. She reflects on some of the back-end and relational structures that underpin the work that got presented in the exhibition and shares practical insights about tools and approaches to navigating value and agency across the intercultural and cross institutional spaces of a project like Songlines. Read the full show notes on our website scccp.net/collaboratory/ Transcript To ensure accessibility we are committed to providing transcripts of all our podcast episodes - you can read the full transcript here. Resources Kungkarangkalpa: Seven Sisters Songline - Open Access Seven Sisters Songline Kungkarangkalpa Performance, Canberra 2013 - Open Access Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, The National Museum of Australia - Open Access

What is the Co?

What is the Co?

Collaboration, co-creation, co-creativity, collective, co-design, creativity, value creation, human centeredness, co-production... In this episode, we explore some of what people mean when they use "co" words. We also hear a little about the histories of some of the ideas which have shaped our usage of these words and the ideas that they point to. This episode features guests, Stephen Osborne, Emma Blomkamp and Antti Pirinen. Read the full show notes on our website scccp.net/collaboratory/ Transcript To ensure accessibility we are committed to providing transcripts of all our podcast episodes - you can read the full transcript here. Resources Ind, Nicholas, and Nick Coates. "The meanings of co‐creation." European business review (2013). - Open Access Chambers, Josephine M., Carina Wyborn, Melanie E. Ryan, Robin S. Reid, Maraja Riechers, Anca Serban, Nathan J. Bennett et al. "Six modes of co-production for sustainability." Nature sustainability 4, no. 11 (2021): 9

Laying the foundations for co-creation

Laying the foundations for co-creation

In this episode of Collaboratory, we explore some of what can enable and constrain collaborative practice at organizational, project and individual levels so that we can lay good foundations for co-creation no matter what scale or sector we're operating in. This episode features guests, Emma Blomkamp, Michelle Halse, Rebecca McNaught, and Antti Pirinen. Read the full show notes on our website scccp.net/collaboratory/ Transcript To ensure accessibility we are committed to providing transcripts of all our podcast episodes - you can read the full transcript here. Resources Blomkamp, Emma. "Systemic design practice for participatory policymaking." Policy Design and practice (2021): 1-20. - Open Access Emma Blomkamp's Systematic Design Practice Wheel - Open Access Pirinen, Antti. "The barriers and enablers of co-design for services." International Journal of Design 10, no. 3 (2016): 27-42. - Open Access Lima, Rinaldo, Bernard Espinasse, and Fred Freitas. "Ontoilpe

Collaboratory Trailer

Collaboratory Trailer

Welcome to Collaboratory, a podcast hosted by Maya Haviland and Nicole Deen that explores co-creativity in action. In each episode we focus on stories and dynamics of co-creative practice we think need talking about. In season 1 of Collaboratory, we are asking what it takes personally and organizationally to enable co-creation to succeed. Collaboratory podcast launches September 7, 2022. You can subscribe through your podcasting app of choice. Get in touch Email - collaboratorypodcast@gmail.com Facebook - Collaboratory Podcast | Scaffolding Cultural CoCreativity Collaboratory is written, edited and produced by Maya Haviland with production and editorial assistance from Nicole Cooper Deen. Audio engineering by Nick McCorriston. Collaboratory is produced on the lands of the Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri people. We pay our respects and ongoing gratitude to the custodians past, present and future. Of the lands on which we work and the knowledges fro