On Wednesday’s drop-in tutorial with Zuleika, I shared my latest intervention which was participated by the diverse backgrounds of stakeholders. I introduced how they could learn together and communicate by sharing practices and knowledge using the form of a community of practice. With the idea that people with different backgrounds could learn and inspire each other, like people with fashion backgrounds could inspire people do Fine Art, Zuleika advised me to find examples of forming collective practice from diverse backgrounds, which I think I still lack resources for studying it in order to gain more in-depth background knowledge. Below are some sentences I use as an reference of the ideas and purposes for collective practice. It show the influence and effect that collective practice made. I think it leads me to think about an interesting sides of collective activity which also about contradiction and nonhuman entities. It helps me to open a different side that the behaviors in a communication could also have a different effects outside of the context we were planning to communicate and the networking will be enlarge when they have each other’s networks which mentioned by Seema.
There are two articles refer to the concept of collective practice:
-Collective practices create ways of sharing experiences, co-producing knowledge, and relating to one another, centering connection, understanding, and solidarity—but they can also generate friction and contradiction.-By futuress, 2023
-They are qualified by terms like participation, group, collectivity, ensemble, collaboration, community, cooperation, sharing, assembly, commons, networks. Collective practices exist in all societies and they have a rich yet complex heritage in arts, politics and sciences. Often considered as a strictly human activity, collective practices can also be performed with or by nonhuman entities, such as animals, plants or Artificial Intelligence. -By Council. art
Reference
Council. art, collective practice, available at: http://www.council.art/inquiries/1383/collective-practices
Futuress (2023), swiss art council, available at: https://futuress.org/learning/lets-talk-collective-practices-2/