Collaboratory Season 1

Navigating Positionality and Power

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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

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Resources

Definitions of Positionality: Positionality – Dictionary.com and Positionality and Intersectionality – The University of British Columbia

Lesley Ann Noel: Critical Alphabet, “Decolonising Design Thinking” article, and “Emancipatory Research and Design Thinking” article

Articles on Power:  Hunjan, Raji and Jethro Pettit. 2011- Power: A Practical Guide for Facilitating Social Change and Institute of Development Studies – Participatory Methods: Power 

“Behind the Wheel” project (Emma Blomkamp): https://emmablomkamp.com/experience/behind-the-wheel

NMA Exhibition (Shona Coyne): https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/endeavour-voyage/tracing

Kaira Zoe Cañete’s Research: https://scccp.net/podcast/co-created-research-a-conversation-with-kaira-zoe-canete/

Guests

Kaira Zoe Cañete is a Filipino feminist scholar with training in Anthropology and Critical Development Studies. She specialises in gender, disasters, and development. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow for the Humanitarian Governance Project at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Her research interests include expanding/rethinking notions of disaster resilience, sustainability by centering perspectives of marginalised groups (the ‘vulnerable’) and advancing feminist ethics of care in disaster response and governance. 

You can find Kaira online at Institute For Global Development UNSW Sydney website, LinkedIn, Research Gate 

Alburo‐Cañete, Kaira Zoe. “PhotoKwento: co‐constructing women’s narratives of disaster recovery.” Disasters 45, no. 4 (2021): 887-912.  – Behind a pay wall

Alburo-Cañete, Kaira Zoe. “Benevolent discipline: governing affect in post-Yolanda disaster reconstruction in the Philippines.” Third World Quarterly 43, no. 3 (2022): 651-672. – Open Access 

Alburo-Cañete, Kaira Zoe, et. Al. “(Dis) comfort, judgement and solidarity: affective politics of academic publishing in development studies – Open Access 

Zoe Alburo-Cañete, Kaira. “Building back better? Rethinking gender and recovery in the time of COVID-19.” Global Social Policy 22, no. 1 (2022): 180-183. – Open Access 

Dr Emma Blomkamp is a facilitator, researcher and strategic designer, best known for her work in co-design for behaviour and systems change. A Pākehā New Zealander living on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, Emma is passionate about co-creating compassionate systems. She has been leading participatory design and social innovation projects with public purpose organisations since 2014. As an independent Co-Design Coach, Emma now focuses on supporting public, health and community organisations to apply creative and participatory approaches in their work. 

Emma’s current affiliations/links are: Co-Design Coach, emmablomkamp.com | Convenor and Founder, CoDesignCo | Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne

You can find Emma online at Emma Blomkamp’s website | LinkedIn | Medium | Twitter 

Shona Coyne is an Indigenous cultural practitioner currently based at the National Museum of Australia as a Senior Curator and Manager of Repatriation and Community Engagement. Shona’s research interests focus on the intersections between Indigenous and non-Indigenous colonial histories and is anchored by her heritage as a Menang/Nyungar woman whose cultural connections also extend to Yamatji Country in Western Australia and the Scottish Highlands. Her recent museum projects include the award-winning exhibitions ‘Endeavour Voyage: The Untold Stories of Cook and the First Australians’ at the National Museum of Australia and ‘Yurlmun: Mokare Mia Boodja at the West Australian Museum. Recent publications also include ‘New postings? The Swan River Colony’ with Tiffany Shellam in Ancestors, Artefacts, Empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish museums (British Museum Press, 2021).   

You can find Shona online at the National Museum of Australia website | LinkedIn | Twitter 

Dr Jilda Andrews is a Yuwaalaraay woman, cultural practitioner and researcher based in Canberra. Jilda draws from her heritage to investigate the connectedness of land, story and culture to objects in museum collections. Her focus on material culture and their associated stories continue to push the definition of custodianship, from one which is focused on the preservation of objects, to one which strives to maintain connections between objects and the systems which produce them. 

You can find Jilda online at the Australian National University website | Research Gate Australia | Council for the Arts website 

Get in touch

Email – collaboratorypodcast@gmail.com

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Instagram – @collaboratorypodcast

Collaboratory is written, edited and produced by Maya Haviland with production and editorial assistance from Nicole Deen. Audio engineering by Nick McCorriston. Music made especially for us by Seprock. Additional research and production support by Nicole O’Dowd.

Collaboratory is produced on the lands of the Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri  people. We pay our respects, an ongoing gratitude to the custodian’s past present and future of the lands on which we work and of the knowledges from which we learn.

Collaboratory is a production of the Scaffolding Cultural Co-creativity Project hosted by the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University funding is generously provided by the Australian National University Translational Fellowship Scheme.

Collaboratory Season 1

Community Engagement and Consent: A Conversation with Azure Hermes

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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 process for each new step or use

Transcript

To ensure accessibility we are committed to providing transcripts of all our podcast episodes – you can read the full transcript here.

Resources

National Centre for Indigenous Genomics

Guests

Azure Hermes is the Deputy Director for the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics at the Australian National University. She has made a career of bridging the gap between policy intention and policy implementation affecting Indigenous Australians.   

You can find Azure online at National Centre for Indigenous Genomics website, Twitter and Instagram 

Get in touch

Email – collaboratorypodcast@gmail.com

Facebook – Collaboratory Podcast | Scaffolding Cultural CoCreativity

LinkedIn – Collaboratory Podcast

Instagram – @collaboratorypodcast

Collaboratory is written, edited and produced by Maya Haviland with production and editorial assistance from Nicole Deen. Audio engineering by Nick McCorriston. Music made especially for us by Seprock. Additional research and production support by Nicole O’Dowd.

Collaboratory is produced on the lands of the Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri  people.We pay our respects, an ongoing gratitude to the custodian’s past present and future of the lands on which we work and of the knowledges from which we learn.

Collaboratory is a production of the Scaffolding Cultural Co-creativity Project hosted by the Center for Heritage and Museum Studies in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University funding is generously provided by the Australian National University Translational Fellowship Scheme.

Collaboratory Season 1

Skills for Co-Creative Relationships

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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 all our podcast episodes – you can read the full transcript here.

Resources

Reimagine STEM Podcast: Episode 1 Engineering Education for the Future

Reimagine STEM Podcast: “When a game means life or death”

Playback Theatre: “What is Playback Theatre?”

Creative Collaboration: Lessons from Improv Theater

Guests

Johanna de Ruyter is the founder of Moving Communication and co-founder of Wicked Elephants Coop. She integrates core practices and principles from improvisation, storytelling, and embodied language as developmental tools to enhance group connection and communication.  Collaboration is at the heart of the methodologies she embraces – how we listen and respond to ourselves, others and our world. 

You can find Johanna online on Wicked Elephants Coop, Moving Communication website and Medium  

David Lilley is undertaking a PhD in public health, public policy and urban environments at the University of New South Wales. He also works as a consultant with Collaboration for Impact, supporting mission and place-based initiatives involving community around Australia.  

You can find David online on Collaboration for Impact website and LinkedIn 

Callie Doyle-Scott is an independent writer, game maker and contributor to the College of Engineering and Computer Science inaugural CoDesign Culture Lab at the Australian National University. She has written articles for the Verity La and Writer’s Bloc webjournals. 

This episode also included guests: Natalie Barr, Dimitrios Papalexis, Anni Davey, Kim Cunio, Tirrania Suhood, Emma Blomkamp, Rebecca McNaught, Diana James, Johanna De Ruyter, Anni Doyle Wawrzynczak, Doyen Radcliffe, Sharon Babyack and Michelle Halse.

Get in touch

Email – collaboratorypodcast@gmail.com

Facebook – Collaboratory Podcast | Scaffolding Cultural CoCreativity

LinkedIn – Collaboratory Podcast

Instagram – @collaboratorypodcast

Collaboratory is written, edited and produced by Maya Haviland with production and editorial assistance from Nicole Deen. Audio engineering by Nick McCorriston. Music made especially for us by Seprock. Additional research and production support by Nicole O’Dowd.

Collaboratory is produced on the lands of the Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri  people. We pay our respects, an ongoing gratitude to the custodian’s past present and future of the lands on which we work and of the knowledges from which we learn.

Collaboratory is a production of the Scaffolding Cultural Co-creativity Project hosted by the Center for Heritage and Museum Studies in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University funding is generously provided by the Australian National University Translational Fellowship Scheme.

Collaboratory Season 1

Co-created Research: A Conversation with Kaira Zoe Cañete

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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 community members to co-create something together.

Transcript

To ensure accessibility we are committed to providing transcripts of all our podcast episodes – you can read the full transcript here.

Resources

Alburo‐Cañete, Kaira Zoe. “PhotoKwento: co‐constructing women’s narratives of disaster recovery.” Disasters 45, no. 4 (2021): 887-912.  – Behind a pay wall

Alburo-Cañete, Kaira Zoe. “Benevolent discipline: governing affect in post-Yolanda disaster reconstruction in the Philippines.” Third World Quarterly 43, no. 3 (2022): 651-672. – Open Access

Alburo-Cañete, Kaira Zoe, et. Al. “(Dis) comfort, judgement and solidarity: affective politics of academic publishing in development studies – Open Access

Zoe Alburo-Cañete, Kaira. “Building back better? Rethinking gender and recovery in the time of COVID-19.” Global Social Policy 22, no. 1 (2022): 180-183. – Open Access

Guests

Kaira Zoe Cañete is a Filipino feminist scholar with training in Anthropology and Critical Development Studies. She specialises in gender, disasters, and development. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow for the Humanitarian Governance Project at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Her research interests include expanding/rethinking notions of disaster resilience, sustainability by centering perspectives of marginalised groups (the ‘vulnerable’) and advancing feminist ethics of care in disaster response and governance.

You can find Kaira online at Institute For Global Development UNSW Sydney website, LinkedIn, Research Gate

Get in touch

Email – collaboratorypodcast@gmail.com

Facebook – Collaboratory Podcast | Scaffolding Cultural CoCreativity

LinkedIn – Collaboratory Podcast

Instagram – @collaboratorypodcast

Collaboratory is written, edited and produced by Maya Haviland with production and editorial assistance from Nicole Deen. Audio engineering by Nick McCorriston. Music made especially for us by Seprock. Additional research and production support by Nicole O’Dowd.

Collaboratory is produced on the lands of the Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri  people.We pay our respects, an ongoing gratitude to the custodian’s past present and future of the lands on which we work and of the knowledges from which we learn.

Collaboratory is a production of the Scaffolding Cultural Co-creativity Project hosted by the Center for Heritage and Museum Studies in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University funding is generously provided by the Australian National University Translational Fellowship Scheme.