This paper examines the potential of co-produced arts-based methodologies
through the lens of a social cohesion project, from the perspectives of five
artists. Arts methodologies can be useful in working across different disciplines
and across university and community boundaries to create equitable knowledge
production processes. The ways in which art is used in community settings as a
mode of collaboration are explored, using the reflections from five artists who
were involved in the social cohesion project together. This paper argues that coproducing
artistic approaches to social cohesion is a complex, multilayered and
sometimes fragile process, but that recognizing and discussing understandings of
the role of power and voice within co-produced projects enables effective team
communication
