Collective Wisdom Symposium panel, “Nothing about us without us: Co-creating within communities in-person and on-line”. Moderator: Salome Asega. Panelists: Salome Asega, Julia Kumari Drapkin, Zhang Mengqi, Michelle Latimer.
Collective creation has a history as long as humanity itself. Do media structures, one-to-many or many-to-many, shape the potentials for co-creation? How might communities and social movements reclaim media-making and history-telling through co-creation? This session features four remarkable co-creative projects that have emerged from within communities and social movements, both in-person and on-line. These co-creators draw on traditions of documentary, Indigenous ceremony, dance, humour, testimony, and protocols of accountability and reciprocity, to create compelling media “with” people not “about” them.
This panel discussion was part of the Collective Wisdom Symposium, a three-day multi-disciplinary symposium organized by the Co-Creation Studio at the MIT Open Documentary Lab, in partnership with the Ford Foundation’s Just Films, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Phi Centre. September 20-22, 2018.