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COLLECTIVE FUTURES CULTIVATING CREATIVE COLLECTIVES
Working in pairs think about your collective and plot out how it came to be, key moments in its existence, key challenges etc. Record the activity directly onto a timeline. Use the ‘prompt cards’ as needed. Formal Constitution
Having a clear Constitution
Open Processes
Open Intellectual Property
Note: this activity used A2 length strips of paper for the timeline so ideas could be drawn, annotated and labelled as the discussion happened.
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COLLECTIVE FUTURES CULTIVATING CREATIVE COLLECTIVES
Use the Arrow post-its to indicate ‘Critical Moments’ on your timeline. Discuss: How were they were resolved? What kind of support did you need? Catagories of Critical Moments:
Space/Place People Funding Process
Decision Making
Decision Making
Equal say in decisionmaking. Majority wins.
Ideas are discussed and members can opt-out.
Business Type
Manifesto
Ethos & Manifesto
Community interest company with charitable status
Decision Making
Roles and Responsibilities
Business Type
Competitive Consortium
Committee
Defining jobs
Business Type
To enable application / access to funding
Business Type
Registering; as a Cooperative, a Social Enterprise, or a Limited Company?
Informal Constitution
“4 guys + dinner!�
Business Type
Annual Membership (members agreement & fee)
Informal Constitution
No bank account
Terms & Conditions
File accounts to companies house
Informal Constitution
Informal Jobs
Terms & Conditions
Legal Jargon & Contracts
Terms & Conditions
Bank account
Terms & Conditions
Set Terms and Conditions
Terms & Conditions
Shared I.P. (Intellectual Property) Agreement
Formal Constitution
Identified Roles & Agreements to fulfill duties
Open Processes
“Open book� finances and processes
Formal Constitution
Having a clear Constitution
Open Processes
No one is paid.
Open Processes
Open I.P.
Meetings
Occasional or Irregular meetings
Meetings
Meetings & sub-meetings
Defined Roles & Responsibilities
Social contract between core members
Meetings
Recorded meetings & distributed minutes
Defined Roles & Responsibilities
Committees
Defined Roles & Responsibilities
Board of ‌‌.
Defined Roles & Responsibilities
Administration
Flexible Roles & Responsibilities
All Voluntary
Flexible Roles & Responsibilities
“Fluidity for Projects” (People take on different roles depending on the project)
Digital Space
Flexible Roles & Responsibilities
Creative freedom and expression
Artist’s Directory (all year round & online representation)
Flexible Roles & Responsibilities
Affiliates & “friends of…”
Digital Space
Promotion (via social media: F/B, Twitter, Blog, etc.)
Physical Space
Digital Space
Website? On-line shop? Other?
Physical Space
Exhibiting
No space
Physical Space
Space (semi-permanent)
Physical Space
Informal Meeting space
Physical Space
Shared studio