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UNION STREET KEYWORDS
YEAR
2022
TYPE OF PROJECT
Research and facilitation method
Keyword booklets were both a facilitation tool and a way to read arts policy in a new way. I extracted seven words from the participatory diagramming process, either from the diagram interventions themselves or from conversations with participants about the diagram method. I then used the most frequently used words to filter through a section of arts policy documents ranging from 2010 to 2020, including Arts Council England strategies as well as Plymouth-specific documents. By clustering together quotes that used
the same keywords, I made a filler to disrupt how I read the language found in the chosen policy documents. The booklet also served as a facilitation tool for a series of focus groups, the filming of which resulted in Permissive Space. I worked with local Plymouth artist, printmaker and journalist Alan Qualtrough to hand print the booklets and posters using antique, reclaimed letterpress machines.
