4/7/12 Down your toolkits!
SLG workshop with Sophie Hope and Alison Rooke.
Shared experiences of evaluation, to be collated in blog/book.
10 steps to critical evaluation:
Evaluation involves the development of a critical framework that’s transparent and honest (to you, organsiers, funders) and backed-up with evidence. It’s not a sales pitch.
Evaluation is a generative practice that is integral to the creative process.
Discuss the language you are using and have clarity from the start about what you expect the evaluation process to be.
Evaluate your funders. Offer ‘kite marks’ for best practice.
Record the unexpected and incidental, failure (where you learn), not-knowing.
Evaluation needs to be protected, paid, planned time and space for reflection. Needs to be a sense of safety and trust for all.
Invite those who don’t know the process of evaluation.
Build in learning conversations; Curators club, critical friends, use social media
Share resources and approaches with colleagues.
Where does the evaluation go? Be inventive about the evaluation ‘product’. How do you share it?
