Additional Materials

This section brings together practical tools and resources to support cultural organisations and practitioners in deepening participation, refining strategy, and embedding reflection into everyday practice.

From stakeholder mapping to evaluation, these materials are designed to be hands-on, adaptable, and grounded in the RECHARGE methodology.

🧩 Presentations & Activities

• 🔗 Presentation: ‘Participation Personas’ + Participation Personas Activity
  A creative exercise to help teams explore different motivations, needs, and roles of participants in cultural processes.

• 🔗 Presentation: Stakeholder Mapping & Engagement Strategy
  Tools for identifying key actors, building meaningful relationships, and designing engagement strategies that respond to real-world dynamics.

• 🔗 Presentation: Understanding Your Impact
  A guide to identifying and articulating the change your work aims to create both within your organisation and in the wider cultural ecosystem.

• 🔗 Presentation: Iteration in Practice
  Learn how to apply iterative design cycles to participatory cultural work, embracing adaptation, feedback, and continuous learning.

• 🔗 Presentation: Evaluating Effectiveness
  Practical methods for evaluating participatory processes—not just what works, but why it works, for whom, and under what conditions.

🃏 Print-Your-Own Cards

• 🔗 Canvas Cards – RECHARGE Participatory Cultural Business Models
  A card deck designed to help you prototype, adapt, and reflect on key elements of your participatory cultural business model.
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• 🔗 RECHARGE Workflow Cards
  Use these cards to visualise, plan, and iterate on your participatory workflow from idea to impact.
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