project co-creation
Creative collaboration to co-design and co-produce projects that are inclusive and meet the needs of the participants.
what does co-creation, co-design and co-production mean?
… and why does it matter?
Brave Day works in partnership with change-makers and practitioners in education, to help students to Explore, Express, Connect and Grow.
Co-design is a design approach in which a designer encourages people to identify a problem and empowers them to solve it.
Co-production is a practice that involves a service user in every stage of the production process and it relies on the idea that the people who use the service are best placed to help produce it.
Co-creation is when organisations bring stakeholders into the innovation process. Increasingly, the innovation they need to survive is the product of collaboration – where sharing skills, resources and expertise can help both parties to flourish.
Davie McGirr
co-production
The case study - ‘Changing the Narrative’ - is a good example of a mixed media project that nurtures exploratory activities into a complex theme and helps the young women to build their communication and storytelling skills - including video, photography, audio, art, and creative writing.
We took a co-production approach to the project - working in collaboration with the project Academic Lead, prof. Farzana Shain, the participating school, and three creative practitioners.
Brave Day led mixed media sessions in collage and filmmaking, as well as filming and editing the final short documentary film.
Person-centred
We worked in a person-centred way that provided agency for the young women in how and what they wanted to talk about, staying flexible throughout the progression of the project to adapt to changing needs.
Creative Media skills training
We also facilitated workshops with specialist creative and digital media skills training to help them find different ways to explore and express their emotions, experiences and ideas for positive change.
‘Changing The Narrative’ Film
Filmed and Edited by Kirstie Henderson, Brave Day.
case study
Project: Changing The Narrative
Project purpose: British Muslim girls narrative accounts of their past, present and future lives’ - explored though creative workshops, mixed media skills development, storytelling, and film production, to reach a wider audience across the UK and beyond.
Project Commissioners: Leverhulme Trust funded research project ‘ British Muslim girls narrative accounts of their past, present and future lives’ led by Professor Farzana Shain.
Collaborative Project Partners:
Professor Farzana Shain - Academic Research Lead - Goldsmiths University - f.shain@gold.ac.uk
Parvez Qadir - Creative Practitioner, Director and Writer - @QadirPqadir62
Kirstie Henderson - Creative Practitioner and Filmmaker, Brave Day - @braveday_create
Jo Sanderson - Head of Year, Falling Park High, Rochdale
Hafsah Aneela Bashir - Jerwood Arts Poetry Fellow, Writer, Educator, Co-Director @outsidetheframearts, @redwizz1
Changing the Narrative: image includes participating students, Parvez Qadir, Prof. Farzana Shain, Kirstie Henderson.
Creative Process
12 x 3hr workshop sessions for 7 Muslim young women, specifically chosen by their school to participate.
The project encouraged the young women to explore their emotions, experiences and responses to the narratives and stereotypes presented in the media, and offer ideas for future positive change.
Outcome
The project film was very well received by the commissioners and participating school, as well as the young women themselves.
The Changing the Narrative project will be progressed to other areas of the UK in 2021 / 2022 to offer a more diverse representation of young Muslim women, and delicate the format and creative approach of exploring themes and ideas in creative ways, to enable more voices to be heard and have a wider social impact.
testimonial
“I am really pleased to have worked in collaboration with Kirstie on Change The Narrative as it has been such a positive experience.
I felt confident after meeting Kirstie that she and Parvez would deliver an excellent film and they have done just that. Kirstie helped the young people we were working with to relax and be comfortable in telling their stories on camera.
She is full of creative ideas to get young people involved and her film editing has been superb. She is genuinely collaborative, has high standards and has been an excellent partner to work with.”
Professor Farzana Shain, Department of Educational Studies, Goldsmiths University.