Tactics for Togetherness - Creating Community-Developed Cultures of Care
Partners: Take A Part CIO (Plymouth, England) and iCollective e.V. (Berlin, Germany)
Image © iCollective e.V.
"We are thrilled to embark on this translocal exchange between Plymouth and Berlin. This partnership allows Take A Part and iCollective to deepen our shared commitment to building caring and supportive communities. Through radical acts of generosity and care, we will co-develop 'Tactics for Togetherness' that transcend borders. Together, we are testing how socially engaged practice can empower residents to reclaim their neighbourhoods as spaces of commoning, empathy, and collective action."
Take A Part CIO and iCollective e.V.
About the partners
Take A Part (TAP)
Take A Part (TAP) is a leading UK Socially Engaged Arts (SEA) organisation known for its radical community-first approach. Our core methodology is the Arts Action Group model, which drives community-led cultural democracy by achieving co- determination, going beyond co-creation and collaborating with communities to realise their own cultural futures.
Our base is Plymouth, where we develop and test all our methods. We actively distribute this learning through a national and international loop: sharing our practice, collaborating with diverse communities and partners nationally and worldwide - ensuring that learning directly feeds back to strengthen our local communities.
We are committed to capacity building though our work. We take all we learn and support our community partners, with local authorities, with cultural institutions and educational institutions to work more closely with communities for collective action and change.
iCollective
Since 2009, iCollective has worked at the intersection of art, urban intervention, and socially engaged practice from a feminist perspective. Through a situated, artistic approach, we develop strategies that inspire citizens to reimagine the city as a space of commoning, inclusion, and empathy. Our work amplifies the voices of underrepresented communities, pushing the boundaries of socially engaged art to drive meaningful change toward equity and care.
In addition to participatory interventions, iCollective organizes the intersectional Who Cares? Feminist Art Festival, focused on care work, and Urbane Künste ERbeLEBEN, which brings young people’s perspectives on urban development into public discourse.
Since 2023, iCollective has led the Bildungsverbund Urbane Künste (Urban Arts Education Network), linking educational and cultural institutions and developing the educational programs for Berlin’s communal galleries Bärenzwinger and Klosterkirchenruine. www.icollective-berlin.com
