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The Open University and The Glass-House Community Led Design (2023). Cross-pollination Resource Pack: Facilitating cross-sector design collaboration. The Open University; The Glass-House Community Led Design.
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Abstract
This resource has emerged from a knowledge exchange project called Cross-pollination: Growing cross-sector design collaboration in placemaking. The project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under their Place programme in 2022/23 as a partnership between The Open University and The Glass-House Community Led Design, working with a range of local partners in England, Scotland and Wales.
The aim of the project was to grow capacity for cross-sector design collaboration through the use of a creative approach called ‘crosspollination’. The approach was developed and tested in a variety of research-based and practice-based projects in different settings, and has proved successful in bringing people together to share and connect their assets (human, economic, cultural, social) and form partnerships with the capacity to lead design initiatives.
The resource was created in order to help cascade and enable cross-pollination across locations, disciplines and sectors, and to enable inclusive and sustainable placemaking processes and outcomes.
It will be valuable to anyone interested in exploring the value and mechanisms of collaborative working and applying them in their local project, however big or small. This includes community leaders, community engagement professionals, voluntary organisations, local authorities, businesses or members of public bodies supporting placemaking.
The resource is divided into 4 sections:
• Section 1 provides an introduction to cross-pollination, presenting its history and explaining its key principles, value and use in practice.
• Section 2 introduces a series of 9 case studies, which serve to demonstrate the diversity of contexts and situations in which the approach has been used, and to help provide inspiration on how you can adapt it for your own context and objectives.
• Section 3 provides practical guidance on how you could deliver a cross-pollination workshop to kick-start collaboration in your own network or local place. It explains the key stages of the workshop, together with top facilitation tips and a set of printable materials to use in the workshop.
• Section 4 provides acknowledgements and some additional links and resources you can explore, as well as information about the authors and how to contact them.
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CORE (COnnecting REpositories)
