16 people came to the Lab and, as hoped, it was real exploration of new ways of thinking about remote partnering – with: journalling; back-to-back (ie as if long-distance) conversations (on language, context and time); igniting our sense through listening, connecting, drawing and painting; games and stories as ways of unleashing imagination and insight; an exploration of technology as a way of building equity and long-distance partnerships that are genuinely co-created and more… See Project Outputs for what we produced and feel free to try out some of the ideas and let us know how they go and / or add some new ones…
Author: Ros Tennyson
Next week… the DESIGN LAB is happening!
16 people will be meeting in rural North Wales (pretty remote!) to build on the findings from the Research Phase of this project and working with an artist, a story teller, IT learning specialist and a group of project partners and practitioners from Kenya, Mongolia, Central Europe and beyond we will be trying to ‘raise the roof’ with bursts of creative and innovative approaches… watch this space for more information w/c 30th January!
Creativity Labs Grant
The project has been awarded a grant for its Design and Creativity Labs (January to March, 2017) from the CAN Fund of the Humanitarian Leadership Academy – this is enabling us to involve front-line practitioners in designing better remote partnering practices.
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Initial Research Findings
Early findings from initial research suggest that there are some benefits from remote partnering – in terms of potentially greater equity, efficiency and cost effectiveness – but that remote partnering requires increased levels of trust and transparency and that the reliance on technology can be frustrating and diminishing to the partnership’s effectiveness.
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