Home Ground: Evaluating in the Liminal Space
摘要
Home Ground creates space for wāhine (women) in the justice system to pause, nurture hope, activate social change and create better lives for themselves and future generations. On a Home Ground project, artists (inside and outside of prison) make creative works using multi-disciplinary arts practice to address the issues women and whānau (family) face in the justice system, while also constructing a supportive network in the community. This chapter will discuss the practical considerations when evaluating a wāhine-led, strengths-based, trauma-informed creative programme using co-design and participatory methods. The intrinsic value of wāhine, arts and culture, whānau and community are highlighted, while we consider the contribution of participatory arts to health and wellbeing in the context of Te Titiri o Waitangi (the founding settlement document of Aotearoa New Zealand), and kaupapa Māori (Māori approach) ways of evaluating creative works.