Co-creation as if people mattered
A Restless Art describes the history, theory and practice of community art. Published in 2019, the book is free to download, along with case studies and other resources.
A Selfless Art is a companion to that book, a rebalancing, more personal and reflective; it is in its early stages.
Elsewhere on this site you can find the books in the Regular Marvels series, reports, essays, and other writing. There are also documents on the early history of the community arts movement.
My other work includes a European project on opera co-creation, publications on culture and international development and community heritage. My podcast with Arlene Goldbard is here.
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Ten years ago, give or take, I started this site as a working space to support what eventually became a book of the same name, published in 2019. I’ve added…
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Geoff Baker is a musician and academic specialising in the music of Latin America, with a particular focus on education, community music and questions of social impact. He has just published Musicking…
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Arlene Goldbard continue our monthly podcast, A Culture of Possibility, as part of MIAAW. NET. The latest episode is about the work of Restoke, which we featured 5 years ago.…
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Although I’ve been working on the AMPLIFY project for nearly 18 months, I have written about it here, partly because of other priorities and partly because its relation to co-creation…
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At the end of day two of the Rotterdam festival, some images of a few of the events, by turn inspiring, frustrating, joyous and intriguing. I know no better way…
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The SIMM Platform exists thanks to the vision and tenacity of Lukas Pairon, a musician, activist and researcher who has worked for many years at the interface of music and…
