Public Humanities and Activism 

Models

of

Collaboration

&

Co-Production

The Scholar-Centered Model

A scholar designs and implements a project. Others join to augment the principal scholar's skills and knowledge.

Role-Based Model

Scholars and practitioners from various disciplines and professional backgrounds work together according to established roles, such as humanist, technologist, data steward. All roles are equally "principal."

The research agendas and interests of all partners are accounted for in project design and work.

All parties should gain professionally and intellectually from the project or be fairly compensated for their labor.

Radical Collaboration & Emergence

Greenhouse Studios is interested in what new knowledge might emerge when we allow academic communities to self-organize. ... At Greenhouse Studios, we’re running an experiment in radical collaboration, exploring what happens when you remove the labor hierarchies and predetermined workplans that normally structure collaborative scholarly projects, and instead embrace the emergent qualities of collaboration itself.

Emergence describes how hundreds of birds, each following its own, relatively simple rules of behavior, self-organize into a flock that displays its own complex behaviors, behaviors that none of the individual birds themselves would display. In the words of writer Steven Johnson, emergence describes how those birds, without a master plan or executive leadership, go from being a “they” to being an “it.” In other words, emergence describes a becoming.

Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)

Work that serves a community need in active dialogue with community partners as co-producers of knowledge and change.

Relationship-centered Model

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