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How do we identify issues or assets in our communities? What do we need to design and implement creative, arts-based programmes in communities? How do we then monitor and evaluate their effectiveness?
The Greenhouse Lab is an action-learning programme organised since 2014. We offer training and mentoring based on our expertise in producing arts-based community development work. In our latest two iterations, based in Cassia Crescent and Yuhua respectively, the Lab has equipped arts and other practitioners with the skills and knowledge to design (D), implement (I), monitor (M), and evaluate (E) arts-based community projects (the DIME model).
The first phase involves learning the methodology of community cultural mapping from Janet Pillai, a veteran cultural researcher and practitioner. Along with facilitation by ArtsWok, participants design and execute a cultural mapping exercise to identify assets, issues, places of significance, and other relevant aspects within the community. They are then equipped in the second phase with skills to Design, Implement, Monitor, and Evaluate an actual arts-based community engagement programme based on findings from the cultural mapping exercise.
