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What is the role of communities in stimulating creativity and innovation, particularly in the UK’s rapidly growing creative and digital economies?

Map Your Bristol

This is promotional video for Map Your Bristol – a participatory historical mapping website and app that enables users to explore, co-create historical content on the move. Read more

Where is Bristol’s History?

This animation responds to the question “Where is Bristol’s history?”. It sets traditional, expert-led approaches to historical research against co-produced and crowd-sourced history suggesting there is history in variety of everyday places waiting to be uncovered. Read more

Why Map History Together?

This animation responds to the question “Why map history together?”. It touches on how maps have been used historically as a technique of power and how maps can be repurposed by people to tell other stories about the world. Read more

What is Co-Production?

This animation, explains the concept of university-community knowledge co-production in less than two minutes. The video was produced by Calling the Shots in collaboration with academics and University of Bristol as part of the AHRC Connected Communities project, Know Your Bristol on the Move. Read more

Know Your Bristol Film

Know Your Bristol on the Move was a co-produced historical mapping project between the University of Bristol, Bristol City Council, Calling the Shots and twelve (and counting!) Bristol community Groups. The project enabled people to explore, research and map Bristol’s history, heritage and culture using digital tools, co-developed with participants. Read more

Making sense of assets: Community asset mapping and related approaches for cultivating capacities

This working paper critically reviews some main aspects from asset based approaches highlights key strengths and weaknesses for future research/development. Read more

A Hive of Actions

Every city, neighbourhood, place, has the potential to be improved and regenerated. Regenerating places involves funding decisions, public provision, democratic processes, communication and deliberation. Improving cities involves competing interests, creative opposition and alternative propositions. Building conditions for alternatives means addressing civic rights and resources, unearthing dreams, skills and talents for creativity, participation and solidarity. Read more

Hydrocitizenship Case Study Websites

These four websites form case studies of the Hydrocitizenship project and provide an array of information and resources about the work of the project on a local level. Read more

Community Connections

In June 2015 community partners in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, and the Valuing Different Perspectives Project (University of Stirling) and ACCORD Project (Glasgow School of Art) organised the Community Connections festival fortnight, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Connected Communities Distributed Festival. Read more

Performing Abergavenny: creating a connected community beyond divisions of class, locality and history

How can we use the arts and humanities to support community cohesion in Abergavenny? This was the question that a group of Abergavenny citizens and the researchers asked. This project was jointly designed, created and produced by researchers and townspeople in partnership with town and county councils and a number of community groups. Read more