Planning & Designing Arts-Based Civic Engagement Projects

Animating Democracy

RESOURCE OVERVIEW

This toolkit provides a framework for thinking through a plan for arts-based civic engagement and dialogue projects. It guides artists and community organizers through a series of questions and is most helpful for early in the project development phase when going from an idea or a need towards a real project.

KEY SECTIONS

Aligning Assets

Page 2-10 provides guiding questions to ask when coming up with ideas for an arts-based engagement project.

Facilitating Community Processes

Page 11-12 provides guiding questions for refining an idea into a project.

Page 13-21 provides guiding questions for figuring out project details.