Just as each community and place is distinct, each question that arises needs a distinct approach. We don’t set out with a pre-defined way of working or set of skills. We draw on our knowledge & experience along with that of other people to imagine a shared methodology that shifts as it needs to over the life of a project. That said, we want all the processes we use to incorporate and promote:

Possibilities thinking: enabling risk and experimentation to widen possibilities thinking in response to the needs of people and place,

Collaboration: finding commonalities and supporting co-production approaches that bring together diverse skills and perspectives,

Agility: testing how groups change scale and composition according to need and environment, supporting individual practice and working within larger, more fixed systems.

We want to widen agendas, shifting the thinking of policymakers towards more holistic placemaking and community wealth-building. Bridging across sectors and silos, we want to open up opportunities for artists and producers to contribute to problem-solving questions and challenges in everyday life.

How can we promote a fuller breadth of voices across different ways of working and power differentials? We want to test and share how can culture and arts become more embedded in societal change discourse through democratic, co-produced processes.

A set of guiding principles act as points of reference: These are that our work will:

• Be people-centred

• Respond to need

• Problem-solve through creative approaches

• Invite curiosity and questioning through action-research enquiry

• Enable risk

• Support new ways of working

• Promote new collaborations, dialogue and exchange

• Support community wealth-building

• Be relevant and responsive to time and place