Basic project management skills are essential to the implementation of a successful socially-engaged project. Here, they will be related to community engagement techniques, as students will become aware of a range of tools that may be adapted to social practice arts, becoming able to apply them to a variety of contexts at a local level.

Image: Interaction with a theatre’s different stakeholder groups
Taken with permission from Theatre management: models and strategies for cultural venues, by Lluis Bonet and Hector Schargorodsky, Knowledge Works, Elverum (NO), 2018, with permission of the authors

Reflection 4.1

What are the main similarities between the images/metaphors discussed and the process of project management? What, in your opinion, are the differences which do not fit neatly into these representations?

Reflection 4.2

In what way, in your view, are community arts management structures similar to non-arts business systems? And what is different?

Reflection 4.3

Can you apply the values pyramid to one or two community arts structures you are familiar with? What seems to fit? What seems to differ, and why?

Image: Governance and decision-making levels
Taken with permission from Theatre management: models and strategies for cultural venues, by Lluis Bonet and Hector Schargorodsky, Knowledge Works, Elverum (NO), 2018, with permission of the authors

Activity 4. 1

Consider a group of people belonging to or forming a community and apply some of the tools discussed in the MOOC such as the values pyramid, the organogram and the three-level structure. You can choose one or more of these tools, and add your own, and apply it or them to the community you are choosing to engage with.

Summary

Socially-engaged projects, like any arts project, generally consist of a beginning, middle and end, and are generally scaleable; the same elements of management, execution, creation and communications are present in different scales. What is different about socially-engaged projects is the territory and the community to which they are tied, which cannot be replicated.

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Multiple choice

Now that you have watched the MOOC and reflected on its content, try to answer the multiple choice questions based on it.