Inspire to Change

6 days ago

The Calling of Creative Evaluators

By Michael Quinn Patton, 1981, updated by Nora F. Murphy Johnson and A. Rafael Johnson, 2022 Creative Evaluation and Engagement (CE&E) is guided by deeply held values and shared principles. It is evaluation that positions the arts as an essential way of knowing and communicating. CE&E supports innovative change through…

Evaluation

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Jun 9

Creativity is Essential For a Just and Equitable World

At Inspire to Change treat creativity as absolutely critical to learning-oriented changemaking generally, evaluation practice specifically. Michael Quinn Patton, a leader in the field of evaluation wrote Creative Evaluation in 1981. His words ring true today, more than forty years later: “Every evaluation situation is unique. A successful evaluation (one…

Creativity

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Mar 10

t world. Instead, we ne…rested in not just designing to improve the current system, but to shift us to a better alternative. It starts with a critique of how some of the things that we’ve valued about design — it being user-centred, agile & iterative, and problem-solving — are no longer adequate if we want to transition to a different world. Instead, we need to act more collectively or planet-centred, be bold and transformative, and see ourselves as stewards of continually changing situations.

Evolving design practice: 2021

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Cat Drew

The design field, like evaluation, is moving beyond problem-solving to transformation.

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The design field, like evaluation, is moving beyond problem-solving to transformation.

Mar 3

A Look at Language: (On The Absence of) Whiteness

by A. Rafael Johnson I’m A. Rafael Johnson, Vice President at Inspire to Change (I2C)and co-founder of Creative Evaluation & Engagement, an initiative of I2C. I use the methodologies of the arts to gather, analyze, and report data for communities, arts organizations, and non-arts organizations. But I’m a writer and…

Evaluation

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A Look at Language: (On The Absence of) Whiteness

Mar 3

There are limitations to only engaging people to think about the future in an analytical and rational way. We need something to pull us away from the status quo — this comes from feeling and experiencing what else is possible. And deliberative democracy processes can hem things in by only offering choices against a narrow pre…

Change happens if our collective imagination changes.

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Cassie Robinson.

100% agree.

100% agree. This is why we weave the arts throughout all of our Creative Evaluation and Engagement work, and why one of our 14 essential elements is "Evoke: Embody through evocative playback and engaging the senses."

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Feb 16

Contribution, Leadership, and Renewal: Perspective from a Path Less Traveled

My name is A. Rafael Johnson, Vice President and Co-Owner at Inspire to Change. I co-created an initativite and approach, Creative Evaluation and Engagement, with Nora Murphy Johnson. …

Creative Evaluation

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Contribution, Leadership, and Renewal: Perspective from a Path Less Traveled

Feb 16

Developing evidence-based principles: An Exemplar

Developing evidence-based principles is an emerging approach that is in contrast to the more traditional method of developing evidence-based best practices. Evidence-based practices and evidence-based principles make different assumptions. Best practice models assume that there is a best way to do things, regardless of context. Effective principles provide guidance for…

Creative Evaluation

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Developing evidence-based principles: An Exemplar

Feb 16

Why “Care” is an Essential CE&E Thread

Creative Evaluation and Engagement (CE&E) is a high-needs environment. There are multiple relationships that require care and attention, including your relationship with yourself. At the same time, you are working towards a more just and equitable world, meaning that you’ll most certainly encounter oppression and injustice and become a holder…

Wellbeing

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