Process
Co-Creation
We are a collective of sisters, neighbors, artists, grandparents, khaltos and ammos, organizers, and educators rooted in Bridgeview, IL and connected by our collective desire to heal, build, and cultivate community.
Our Vision
The Inverse Surveillance Project strives to model how we as a community can...
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Heal
collectively from years of traumatic and violent state-sponsored surveillance
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Center
those most impacted by years of surveillance in a non-extractive way
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Create
an intentional process of co-creation that benefits the community and reimagines power and culture building
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Thrive
as a community by practicing our sacred traditions of togetherness, hospitality and creating art
Guiding Principles
- Non-hierarchical and consensus-based
- Counter-extractive and a benefit to the community
- Defying all notions of single authorship
- Centering the most marginalized
- Prioritizing care and wellness in every way
“Co-creation is a living process…”
In Collective Wisdom, a field study spear-headed by the MIT Open Documentary Lab and co-authored by our friend and mentor Katerina Cizek we understand co-creation to be: “an alternative to a single-author vision… a process that involves a constellation of media production methods, frameworks, and feedback systems.
In co-creation projects emerge from a process, they evolve from within communities and with people, rather than for or about them. The concept of co-creation reframes the ethics of who creates, how, and why. Our research shows that co-creation interprets the world, and seeks to change it, through a lens of equity and justice.”
