Throughout the interviews, discussions, and gatherings we held for the Collective Wisdom project, we systematically heard that co-creation insists on profound attention to process. The media industry has commodified the construction and telling of stories, so the prevailing standards of funding, researching, evaluating, and producing leave little room for process-oriented…

Indigenous artists, reciprocity, and co-creation —

Five Media-Makers of Color Speak Out, Part VI — As part of our series for the Collective Wisdom field study, we present the sixth and final excerpt from a conversation between Juanita Anderson, Maria Agui Carter, Thomas Allen Harris, Maori Karmael Holmes, and Michèle Stephenson. Read Part I, Part II, Part III , Part IV, and Part V here.

By Katerina Cizek Conventional Futurists sell the inevitability of new tech solutions and how they will improve our lives. Yet these futurists reproduce current systems that benefit only a privileged few. Rather than “predicting” the future, corporate-aligned forecasters write the future in the very act of telling it. It is…

“You have to be a human before you’re a photographer or documentarian,” filmmaker Alexander Glustrom says in an interview with Working Films.

Five Media-Makers of Color Speak Out, Part V — As part of our series for the Collective Wisdom field study, we present an excerpt from a conversation between Juanita Anderson, Maria Agui Carter, Thomas Allen Harris, Maori Karmael Holmes, and Michèle Stephenson. Read Part I, Part II, Part III , and Part IV here.

Artist WhiteFeather Hunter creates beautiful things by growing bacteria, chatting with bugs, and collecting menstrual blood — WhiteFeather Hunter is a Canadian bio-artist and scholar who works with microorganisms to create gorgeous textiles and other inventions. Hunter describes her work within “the frameworks of craft, feminism, witchcraft, and relationships with nonhumans or nonhuman organisms.” Katerina Cizek conducted this wisdom for Collective Wisdom. …

Risks and lessons from the Collective Wisdom field study — Co-creation is greater than the sum of its parts. There may be a complex set of problems that people want to address together. Eventually, there will be outcomes, but these emerge out of the process rather than the other way around. From our in-depth interviews, we surfaced practical takeaways for…