Welcome

Collaborative Hope is our graduation project co-created as the final requirement for our Master of Education in Art for Social Change (ASC) degree. Our project encompasses salient points of learning rooted in the four aspects we collaboratively identified as integral to the practice of ASC - vulnerability, relationship, emergence and time. 

The web presentation of our material was chosen as it offers us an alternative to conventional academic formatting while still allowing us to demonstrate our scholarly practices and methodologies. The Internet also provides an extensive storage platform for ASC documentation that can easily be organized and shared with a broader audience.
 
This site allows us to share the full extent of our journey with you through our documented methodologies, and invites you to dig into as much or as little of our process in your own time, and at your own pace. We chose to utilize critical inquiry, mapping, collaborative art inquiry and living inquiry to explore our four aspects – vulnerability, relationship, emergence and time, and why they matter to us specifically and as they pertain to ASC work. Throughout our website these four aspects, represented in the images above, will guide you through connecting to the various methodologies and processes. We have framed each page to briefly outline the methodology, why we used it, and how it relates to ASC work.
 
Using the web as a platform allows for the conversations we have started based on what we think are important considerations to be shared and continued. We have included a blog on the Living Inquiry page, to continue practicing this beautiful pedagogy and invite conversation through the comments link. On our Thank You page we have included an extensive reference list of all the theorists and authors cited through out 'collaborative hope'.
 
We have named our site ‘collaborative hope’ in celebration of these two constant principles found in all ASC work. Enjoy.


Thank you for sharing your time,


​Anita & Robin
We acknowledge our learning takes place on the unceded Indigenous land belonging to Coast Salish peoples. Unceded means that this land was never surrendered, relinquished or handed over in any way. We recognize that the unceded land that we occupied during classes at SFU Woodwards includes the territories of the Musqueam, Skxwú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh. Learn more about Acknowledgements of Indigenous Territories and how to make them.