How to use collaborative art-making for dialogue and communication

Artists have often used artworks to express emotions and thus prompt public dialogue about contemporary challenges. At the same time, it has been suggested that collaborative art-making can be used in environmental deliberation processes, where stakeholder groups discuss contentious challenges such as the effects of flooding. Policy actors have rarely been deeply involved in these processes. Our recent research showed that collaborative art could be used to develop relationships between groups, including policy actors, in deliberation processes, by creating artworks to bring concerns into the public domain.