Katerina Cizek

What's the key to co-creation? Veteran co-creators say it involves supporting and investing in process, not only in deliverables and products. We identify six key recommendations for next steps in the field.

Can humans co-create with non-human systems? Increasingly, artists, technologists and journalists are working with living systems, such as cells, mold, planetary scale systems, artificial intelligence (AI) as well as technological infra-structures. Is it co-creation?

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What is co-creation, and who co-creates? Co-creation resides within a diverse ecosystem of practitioners and systems of knowledge. Chapters include a conversation about co-creation and equity by five media makers of color.

What are the risks and opportunities? Veteran co-creators have developed many strategies, informed by a long history of defining collective protocols, practices, and pathways that hold partners accountable to each other.

How do people co-create within communities, in-person? Includes a brief history of documentary practices, participatory media, and the rise of art collectives. Features an extended conversation between members of Detroit Narrative Agency.

How do people co-create within communities on digital platforms? Emerging technologies offer both new forms of connectivity and ethical challenges for co-creation. Featured chapter: overview of collaborative forms of journalism, between reporters, organizations and with readers.

When co-creation teams cross disciplinary lines, they embark on parallel paths of discovery rather than privileging one discipline’s priorities over the other. Features the history + potential of labs, incubators, residencies and permanent experiments that go beyond disciplines.

Lists of 221 relevant readings and 251 co-creative projects and programs.

An interactive graphic showing co-creation within a network of related practices across multiple disciplines.

A short video trailer showcasing the field study.

Why co-create and why now? This first-of-its-kind field study identifies trends, opportunities, and challenges to help advance the understanding, the risks and recognition of co-created works and practices — efforts that function outside the limits of singular authorship.