Outreach: Your Process Where do you want this project to be presented: schools, festivals, print publications? Imagine your ideal launch or your first key event. How will you ensure universal (across physical and socio-econimic boundaries) access to your work at the venue or with the platform? If you only had funding for five events, what…

Output: Your Process What is your desired output or final product: a website, film, or educational tool? What media, platforms or access need to be considered? Do different participants prioritize different outcomes? How might you negotiate if stakeholders are invested in different outputs? What is the project in its most expansive form? What is the…

Methods: Your Process It is important to consider how a method or set of methods (interviews, photo voice, circle sharing, auto-ethnography, discrete collaborative ventures) might serve the goals of the team, the participants, and imagined future audiences. How might your method reinforce your message? What is the relationship of the method to your output (choice…

Impact: Your Process Impact is about the kind of change that you hope to inspire through a project and it is a helpful way to articulate your goals. What do you aspire to do with the project? Do you want to build new relationships? Change a law? Educate a target audience? Shift a behavior? What…

Power: Your Process When participants of a project have an opportunity to engage in decision-making they often feel more involved and accountable to the project. Participatory projects can involve intentional protocols, such as consensus decision-making, or horizontal structures of decision-making. They can also operate in vertical dynamics. For instance, project coordinator you might make executive…

Partners: Your People Who do you need to help you bring your project to fruition: peers, volunteers, technical support, outreach partners, advisory board? Are they accountable to other organizations or institutions? How will you ensure there is sufficient time build and sustain meaningful partnerships with your partners? What will the extent of their participation or…

Audience: Your People We make our work for imagined or target audiences—those who will benefit most from the project. In participatory projects, making choices about target audiences is helpful to consider early on, and then revisit over time. There are often multiple target audiences for any project and they may change over time. What is…

Authorship: Your People Authorship is a key question within any co-creative process and may change over the lifespan of a project but it is important to discuss it early on. Who will claim ownership of the work and when will this be decided? Will it be individual, co-authored, open source? How will the credits be…

Influencers: Your People Who else might have an impact on your project: academic advisors, ethics boards, elders, advisors, funding bodies? If you are involving an individual who is part of a governmental institution, non-profit, or indigenous community, who do they need to consult? Have you planned enough time for a proper consultation? Who needs to…

Participants: Your People Especially at the beginning, but really at any stage of a project, it is important to consider whose stories, voices, or expertise will be included or excluded from the project. No project can cover every perspective, so it is crucial to decide what perspectives are the most important to you and your…