Each issue’s content is curated around a theme selected by the Common Ground Leaders Programming Group. The Leaders are a community of 18 to 25 year-olds interested in arts and heritage who have been involved with guiding and designing Common Ground. The Programming Group are three Leaders who helped to plan and produce the Common Ground Symposium on the 25th November 2022.
The Group chose an umbrella theme of alternative ways of seeing heritage. Under this, they chose the 3 sub-themes of Non-traditional, Play and Access to help underpin the programming and content for the Common Ground Symposium. The Leaders feel that each theme helps to communicate important elements of Common Ground’s work and helps to frame the most successful ways of engaging young people.
PLAY
Play refreshes our engagement with heritage through creativity and experimentation. What would heritage look like through an imaginative lens? How can we identify methods of including young people in heritage through creativity and playfulness?
Each project in this issue explores how creative processes can encourage young people to engage and connect with heritage in ways that are new, stimulating, and exciting, as well as educational.