CMW Research Program
Connect
Fund, host, collaborate, or participate.
Support the research, bring an encounter into an environment, collaborate on a question, or hear when public participation opens. Choose any that fit.
Organizations are conditions too.
Every organization arranges experience before anyone arrives. That arrangement can become part of the inquiry.
- A library organizes
- How patrons enter, wait, ask, browse, gather, learn, and become visible.
- A museum organizes
- Attention, interpretation, authority, pacing, and movement.
- A university organizes
- Evaluation, participation, sequence, knowledge, and belonging.
- A community organization organizes
- Relation, affinity, care, return, and who is expected to adapt.
- A workplace organizes
- Time, authority, communication, regulation, attention, and consequence.
An engagement can take four forms:
- Host a Mindful Creative Lab
- A 60-, 90-, or 180-minute facilitated inquiry through attention, making, interpretation, and reflection.
- Present an Experiment in Being Together
- A participatory public artwork that changes one familiar social condition for the length of a gathering.
- Commission a situated inquiry
- Begin with the environment itself: field observation, spatial reading, facilitated inquiry, archival work, interviews where appropriate, and a synthesis of what becomes visible.
- Develop a research or evaluation collaboration
- For an institution carrying a more formal question, with an evidence plan, an ethics structure, and a longer inquiry.
What an organization can expect
The Research Program does not promise predetermined transformation. It can promise a clear design and a documented process.
Depending on the engagement, that may include:
- a facilitated encounter
- a condition map
- a set of research questions
- field or spatial observations
- a participant-created artifact
- a design rationale
- a synthesis memo
- a public program
- a Research Note or Case Study where appropriate
- recommendations kept separate from findings
- an explicit account of what the work did not establish
If an organization needs a guaranteed claim such as “this will increase belonging by X percent,” that requires a research design capable of supporting that claim.
Start with the form below.
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