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YEAR
2021-2022
TYPE OF PROJECT
Participatory research method
These artefacts were developed to research with others during the first COVID lockdown. I used a website called Graph Commons to visualise all the connections I could find using publicly available information on artists, arts organisations, community groups and funders that have a connection to Union Street. I then posted the diagrams to some of the people depicted on the graphs and asked them to edit, add, change, or mess up the diagram in whatever way they saw fit.
The diagrams visually display a range of perspectives on the cultural ecosystem of Union Street and illustrate how participants responded to the research method itself. Rather than attempting to present a complete overview of the Union Street cultural ecology, the collection of diagrams shows the impossibility of such a task. Networks of people are always changing and can look different depending on an individual's perspective.
