Inquiry

Describing her scholarly and grassroots organizing practices in the Living with Concepts micropublication, Danielle Boissoneau shares a question perpetually asked and re-asked among collaborators: “What are your methods?” In this context and beyond it, a focus on methods underscores their importance to expansive, accountable, and equitable collaboration. How to work together amid difference and conflict? What strategies sustain groups and collectives in the short and long-term? How can methods reshape the means and ends of a project? Contributors across Blackwood programs and publications demonstrate the varied forms collaboration takes. In academic labs, artist collectives, activist organizations, and ad hoc groups, they highlight the diverse methodologies for working together, and the attendant impacts of methods on project outcomes.