Funder: NCRM

Partners: Community Reporter Network

Sector: Research

 

Overview:

A hackathon is an event where people come together to collaborate intensively on solving problems, creating innovative solutions, or developing new ideas. They foster creativity, experimentation, and rapid development of ideas. As part of the 6th Annual Community Reporting conference, People’s Voice Media organised and worked with members of the Community Reporter network to convene an in-person hackathon that examined the question: “How can we make lived experience storytelling practice more accessible and inclusive?”.

Experts including people with lived experience of some of the issues being discussed, researchers, creative practitioners and storytellers, public engagement professionals, evaluators and workers in the third and public sectors, attended the event to work on this question. The event focused specifically on how storytelling could be:

• accessible for people who do not use spoken word
• inclusive for people who are neurodivergent
• actively anti-racist

Through a series of creative and participatory activities, the attendees worked together to explore the barriers and identify solutions that were summarised in a short report.