Steering Group Meeting 2
October Gallery - 2.00pm on Thursday 3rd September 2026
Invited
Dilys Williams, Paul Halliday, Francesco Mazzarella, Les Moore, Jonny Bradley, Stefani Abadian-Crone, John Wood
Agenda
Updates on previous meetings Steering Group on 19th May and informal chat with Les
Matters of Report:
- Hugo Burge Foundation funding bid (see notes) to be judged in October/November 2026
- Fund raising gig for our project currently being organised for Friday 27th November 2026 at the Brookmill Pub SE8
- We acquired domain names school-of-co-creation.co.uk and school-of-co-creation.com
- the choice of name has implications for our project's direction - what do we think?
- John working on a primer course for co-creative team working (please take a look).
- John to meet on 10th September with a South London community who needs team-related help.
- Hypha Studios Open Call for free space in Sevenoaks.
- Must be art-related (see our website)
- Requires some public-facing talks/workshops etc.
Informal Presentations
- 3 minute 'thumbnail visions' to guide our journey
- Dilys - what might educators/activists learn from setting up the first Centre for Sustainable Fashion?
- Paul - re-envisioning the Art School
- Les - Joining the dots:
- i) 1 million NEETS
- ii) LETTS community bonding
- iii) local permaculture initiatives (e.g. food growing etc.)
- iv) New approaches to learning
- Francesco - applying what know about working with marginalised learners: e.g. positionality, shifting identities, lived experience, empathy and reciprocity, safe and brave spaces, ethics of care, self-care, transformational change, power dynamics, localism, activism, legacies.
- Jonny - what we can learn from Creative Commons / Open Source initiatives
- Picked Tiki for attainable-utopias.org (2003)
- Found it was Open Source so started contributing back (around 2004)
- Still there and on the board of directors
- It's self regulating and organising and owned by the contributors
- John - switching from summative to synergistic reasoning (transdisciplinary / co-creative learning in local teams)
- Discussion
- Agreements / Decisions / Actions