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The Making Affect: A Co-created Community Methodology

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This paper explores research undertaken as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project: Co-producing CARE: Community Asset-based Research & Enterprise, which worked with community groups to explore how craft, as a practice and a methodology, might promote community agency and build assets through co-creative making, learning and sharing. It draws on a range of discourses, theories and practices from social design and design thinking, to ethnography, embodiment, cooperation and community agency.

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The research upon which this paper is based was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Grant No. AH/K006789/1: Co-producing CARE: Community Asset-based Research & Enterprise. We would like to thank all our project partners, consultants, advisers, collaborators and participants for their expertise, enthusiasm, time and commitment.

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Hackney, F. (2017). The Making Affect: A Co-created Community Methodology. In: Chakrabarti, A., Chakrabarti, D. (eds) Research into Design for Communities, Volume 2. ICoRD 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 66. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3521-0_78

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