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Artist’s thinking brings a new view in tackling citizen problems in novel ways. Artists can even start their process by being driven with citizen concern and therefore engage their intervention within specific communities. Doing so, artists encourage citizens to take necessary action in value creation. The challenge is in building trust with the community but also defining communities’ intrinsic motivation.

Responsible innovation ensures innovation is not misused by others and has future in mind. Important factors in managing responsible innovation are using critical thinking to iterate the process of the project and participation of different stakeholders to ensure everyone’s voice is heard.

Valorisation refers to capturing value from science through making scientific insights available and useable to industry and or society. This entails a long-term benefit of research to communities and helps translate research into ‘’use’’. Such approach fosters a positive civic behaviour and usage of project results even beyond project duration.

Arts-led approach involves the creative practice combined with process that leads the project. The type of practice here is critical. The dialogue, directed by an artist in collaboration with a community of participants, can comprise a single event, such as a workshop, or any other type of schemes.

Artistic interventions can be defined as artist-led initiatives that help organisations through the arts to develop their activities or competencies. Technically within such projects all is driven by the artist. However, most interventions are context -based. This concept is also different from design-led.

• Co-creation is about listening to all parties and working together to make something or solve something. This is a critical inclusive process that requires participation. The process targets a specific problem where you start from scratch with an artist and together the team defines parameters of the project.
• Co-Design means that all partners design solutions and ideas together in a partnership. Parameters are already existing and decision is on the artist to decide together on possible methods, schemes and formats to be used. Focused on solutions using knowledge dialogue not monologue.

• Workshops
• Salons
• Meetups
• Fixperts
• Side
• Embedded situated practice
• Art+policy community data hackathons
• Mini residencies
• Design sprints
• Knowledge transfer experiments/KTE

Methodologies for developing products that comprehend and empower people with diverse backgrounds and talents are referred to as inclusive design. Accessibility, age, financial status, location, language, race, and other issues may be covered.

• FET-ART
• WEAR-SUSTAIN
• SmartLab
• Vertigo
• RADICAL STARTS
• STARTS

Actors are participants in an action or a process in an eco-social practice. This also includes more-than-human actors/actants.

Community of Practice is defined as groups of people informally bound together by shared expertise and passion for a joint enterprise.

High context culture refers to a communication style where much of the information is conveyed through implicit cues, such as body language, tone of voice, social context, and shared understanding, rather than through direct or explicit words. In such cultures, people tend to rely heavily on non-verbal communication and the situational context to interpret meaning.

Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) is a systematic method used to assess the environmental impact of a product, material, process, or activity over its entire life cycle—from raw material extraction through production, use, and disposal. It helps organizations and individuals make more informed decisions to minimize environmental impact.

OBREDIM is short for Observe-Boundaries-Resources-Evaluation-Design-Implementation-Maintenance.

Permaculture is an ecological design system that supports a process of working with, rather than against natural systems to create highly efficient self-sustaining ecosystems.

PermaCultural Resilience (pCr) is a 3-phase whole system approach designed to help create eco-social practices that fit specific local needs. It emphasizes the regeneration of ecosystems and communities by integrating sustainable design principles with local resources, promoting long-term adaptability and self-sufficiency.

Praxis is an approach to taking action, applying tested theoretical frameworks.

"Phases of the pCr praxis include

• Relationships
• OBREDIM
• Life Cycle Analysis
• Evaluation"

Social Art Practice are artforms that involve people and communities in debate, collaboration or social interaction.

Vital Signs Matrix evaluates the health of a project based on its vitals signs and it consists of twelve indicators.

Proposed community may be either one an artist have worked with before, or a new community an artist would like to work with but don't yet have contact with. It is important to consider the circumstances of the proposed community and why they were selected, any ethical concerns/considerations for the community, whether there are any relevant eco-social issues which will or may arise, whether an artist worked with them before and is there a relationship (if any yet) between an artist and the community, and if any other local or non-local support organisations or structures are to be employed.

Methods may include but are not limited to theoretical or practical approaches, such as methods of working with communities, including but not limited to using hackathons, meetups, salons, workshops, inclusive co-design sessions.

Technology, here, can range from a low-fi method for establishing communication – for example - up to cutting-edge digital innovations. ‘Under the ATSI framework, technology is viewed as simple or established solutions which are either: designed as Proof of Concept or conceptual prototypes, or more established technologies in use by the industry and or the communities in relation to specific environmental and or sustainability challenges that apply to Communities of Practices. Each technology will be profiled based on (i) functionality (ii) maturity (iii) availability/accessibility (iv) use (v) potential for further development or repurposing. This building block will require the involvement of the technical/technological communities who might be engaged in the execution of activities and be informed about the ATSI schemes.

Artist Intervention is the specific ways in which an artist project meets a target SDG, the ways it benefits the communities, the environment, methods, approach or process and activities for working with the community.

Socially engaged art (also called social practice) is art made with people rather than for them, where the interaction, relationship or process is the work itself rather than an object. It repositions the artist as a facilitator and collaborator. The field is several decades old and goes by many names, participatory, dialogical, community-based, collaborative, reflecting a practice that deliberately resists fixed categories (Helguera, 2011; Kester, 2004; Bishop, 2006).

Eco-social practice extends socially engaged art to the environment, on the principle that you cannot address social wellbeing and ecological health separately, they are part of the same interconnected system (Guattari, 2000 [1989]). An eco-social art practice works with a community and its rivers, soils, species and places as co-participants, centring long-term relationship, ecoliteracy and shared agency (Fitzgerald, 2018; McKeown, 2016). Within VOICE, the permaCultural resilience (pCr) approach and the more-than-human focus of many ATSIs are examples of eco-social practice in action.

It is a difference of scope. Socially engaged art can focus purely on relationships between people; eco-social practice includes the wider ecosystem treating ecological and social change as one task. Everything socially engaged art does, eco-social practice also does and extends into wider environmental concerns including the more-than-human world.