Non-prescribed spaces, creativity and narrative formation: a systems-based examination of a community art group exploring food poverty

Wheeler, Bella

doi:10.1080/17457823.2017.1422132

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“…This echoes our participatory and co-productive philosophies and consolidates previous discussions about capability and social inclusion. Furthermore, Wheeler (2018) confirms that collage and mapping as an approach can provide community members with a space (free from externally determined and rationalised top-down agendas) in which to examine, define and make legitimate their experiences and how this can be thought of as an educational and community knowledge-building practice with important implications. This supports our use of creative activities as inherent parts of events to bring people together and engage individuals in social well-being dialogues.…”

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confidence: 71%

“…Get together and be yourselves, not just the name on your name badge you've got on, you are you! (OI.5) Collage (or visual mind mapping) is an important artsbased method for engagement and empowerment (Wheeler, 2018;Flint et al, 2017). It utilises sought images and objects to foster a process of de-construction in the tearing, cutting and gluing of images and objects.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This supports our use of creative activities as inherent parts of events to bring people together and engage individuals in social well-being dialogues. Our participatory food events provided a combination of arts-based practices and participatory methods which, according to Wheeler (2018), involves the movement between 'action' (gathering of information relevant to the topic) and 'research' (the reflection upon it), or as Boden (2004) would describe as the 'movement between unconscious primary and conscious secondary processes'.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…(AI.5: council policy officer) An environment where academics, policy makers/service providers and laypersons/service users interact can be challenging, not least because of the location of power in such situations. Community spaces are known to be increasingly structured in response to externally determined top-down agendas (Wheeler, 2018), the antithesis of what our participatory approaches (and underpinning public engagement philosophies) are trying to achieve. Yet the expectation that community engaged collaborations will occur as part of public engagement activities is a relatively new emerging requirement in academia.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Participatory food events as collaborative public engagement opportunities

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Parsons

Letherby

et al. 2019

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There is an urgent need to ‘get creative’ with the way we tackle social and nutritional inequalities. The Food as a Lifestyle Motivator (FLM) project has explored the use of creative participatory approaches to engage ‘harder to reach’ communities in dialogues to improve their well-being and life skills. Preliminary findings have confirmed that food can be a powerful catalyst for social inclusion with the potential to empower ‘marginalised’ individuals. Part of this exploratory study has involved two participatory food events (November 2015 and November 2016) run in a local day centre for drug and alcohol rehabilitation. The aim of these events was to bring together key stakeholders (from the service user and provider communities) to exchange food-based knowledge, using collaborative and co-creative participatory approaches. Following ethical clearance, a range of data were collected at the events to assess their ‘social impact’. These consisted of (1) audio interviews (service providers and users), (2) oral surveys (service users and key workers) and (3) observations of social cooking and eating engagement, and creative visual arts (photography, collage, food games and quizzes). In this article, we detail how the range of creative approaches used has successfully engaged individuals (average attendance: n = 80, service users: n = 32) to participate in these food-themed events. We reflect on the overarching themes from data capture of the social and therapeutic aspects of food (activities). We also reflect on the collation (and curation) of findings, systematically critiquing the approaches used, including consideration of ethics, and drivers for engagement. Finally, we consider how the utility of such creative approaches can optimise public engagement activities, not only to enhance research impact but also to inform collaborative developments with and between service users, service providers and other stakeholders, with the potential to lead to transformative food-related changes.

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confidence: 71%

Section: Creation Collation and Curation Of Findingsmentioning

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Section: Creation Collation and Curation Of Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Opportunities For Public Engagementmentioning

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“…The role of community based participatory approaches to exploring food poverty has been illustrated by a recent study undertaken by Wheeler (2018). She facilitated user-led, self-managed groups undertaking a number of visual art-based projects.…”

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Food poverty and youth work – A community response

Ord

Monks

2021

Critical Social Policy

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This article discusses the findings of a small-scale study investigating the impact of food poverty on youth work in community based open access settings. It documents the growing impact of food poverty on the role of youth work in deprived communities and explores the role youth workers play in addressing it. Firstly this ‘community response’ addresses the issue of food poverty in localities where it arises. However, it not only meets basic needs, but it also helps build social capital by enacting important social relationships associated with food by ‘eating together’. Such responses also have the potential to combat stigma and abjection through the creation of critical consciousness and political education. The research also highlights the need for greater coordination of this response and for youth centres to be less isolated from other services. Finally, the legacy of food policy within youth work is highlighted, previously dominated by a focus on healthy eating since Every Child Matters (2003). Post austerity, for many communities the concern is simply ‘eating’!

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Engaging with ‘less affluent’ communities for food system transformation: a community food researcher model (FoodSEqual project)

Pettinger,

Hunt,

Gardiner

et al. 2023

Proc. Nutr. Soc.

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The UK food system is distorted by inequalities in access, failing the people most in need, yet it should provide access to safe, nutritious affordable food for all citizens. Dietary patterns are associated with sociodemographic characteristics, with high levels of diet-related disease mortality attributed to poor dietary habits. Disadvantaged UK communities face urgent public health challenges, yet area often treated as powerless recipients of dietary and health initiatives. The need for food system transformation has been illustrated within recent UK government policy drivers and research funding. The Food Systems Equality project1 is a research consortium that aims to ‘co-produce healthy and sustainable food systems for disadvantaged communities’. The project focusses on innovating food products, supply chains and policies, placing communities at the center of the change. Tackling the above issues requires new ways of working. Creative approaches in food research are known to empower a wider range of individuals to share their ‘lived food experience’ narratives, building relationships and corroborating co-production philosophies, thus promoting social justice, and challenging more traditional positivist/reductionist ‘biomedical’ approaches for nutrition and food studies. This review paper critiques the use of community-centric approaches for food system transformation, focusing on one, a community food researcher model 1 as an exemplar, to highlight their utility in advocating with rather than for less affluent communities. The potential for creative methods to lead to more equitable and lasting solutions for food system transformation is appraised, consolidating the need for community driven systemic change to foster more progressive and inclusive approaches to strengthen social capital. The paper closes with practice insights and critical considerations offering recommendations for readers, researchers, and practitioners, enabling them to better understand and apply similar approaches.

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Non-prescribed spaces, creativity and narrative formation: a systems-based examination of a community art group exploring food poverty

Cited by 4 publications

References 29 publications

Participatory food events as collaborative public engagement opportunities

Participatory food events as collaborative public engagement opportunities

Food poverty and youth work – A community response

Engaging with ‘less affluent’ communities for food system transformation: a community food researcher model (FoodSEqual project)

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