Being co-creative is about being together with purpose to make something new that you couldn't make on your own. Co-creating demands cooperation, collaboration and co-production. It's difficult. It can be rewarding. It's ideological, political and democratic. It asks for a different way of being in the world; a being together in the world, not being separate or being on your own.
ArtScapers have explored co-creating by planning a cityscape, creating an exhibition, making up enormous numbers together.
"And like for example, if you want to do like a pet shop and another person wants to do a pet shop and they decided to put their pet shop in the new development site then you had to sort of work together. But it was really fun doing that because lots of people listened to your ideas and then you could put your ideas." Florence, 7, Student
Aid & Abet made assemblages of found objects, discarded items, weeds.
Bedwyr Williams considered the preservation of objects. He was partnered with the University of Cambridge Museums.
In 'One Billion Objects in Space' Tania Kovats invited people to chart and map the universe and consider how you can represent a billion of anything.
Aid and Abet were partnered with the University of Cambridge Department of Land Economy