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10 November 2020 Essays / Experiences / Research / Thinking

Reflecting on culture and development

For the past 18 month or so, I have been working with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

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25 October 2019 Experiences / Research

People at work

A few years ago – before Brexit erased all other political conversation – Multistory worked with Magnum Photos on an

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16 April 2015 Experiences / Research

Traditional culture and community art

There was a time when I dismissed traditional art as a medium for socially engaged practice. As a young community

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13 September 2014 Experiences / Research

The Pinning Stones

Portraits from The Pinning Stones by Ray Smith On Thursday, the residents of Scotland decide whether to leave the United Kingdom

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29 January 2014 Experiences / Research

How to be an artist

‘I don’t care if you call my work journalism or art or whatever; whatever you want to call it is

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7 July 2013 Research / Thinking

Regular Marvels, in Theory (RMT)

Originally posted on Regular Marvels:
One reason for creating Regular Marvels is to look for better ways of writing about people’s experience…

Plumber and Community leader, Prshovce Rural Communities Culture
21 April 2013 Evaluation / Research

Portraying the change

How can you describe a cultural programme that has extended over 14 years, 9 countries and 3,000 projects? How do

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5 April 2013 Research

The Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans

Next week, I will be in Sarajevo for a conference to mark the end of the Swiss Cultural Programme in

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28 September 2012 Evaluation / Research / Thinking

The problem of ‘impact’ (MCV 4)

A conversation with Peter Wright at the Creative Communities 3 conference made me realize that it might be useful to

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8 July 2012 Research

Serious amateurs

The modern system of art is not an essence or a fate but something we have made. Larry Shiner, 2001

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François Matarasso

François Matarasso

I'm a community artist, writer and researcher, working in Europe. My latest book, 'A Restless Art' (London 2019), is about the history, theory and practice of participatory art.

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