What do the new models of leadership look like with a mindful, intentional approach to creating new spaces for co-creative models? In flattening and shifting power dynamics, co-creators learn to respect expertise in non-hierarchical systems.
In non-fiction media, this means that the people formerly known as directors and producers take on new roles. In Part 2 of the Collective Wisdom report, titled “How to Co-Create: Practical Lessons form the Field, the researchers share this illustration of new roles gleaned from interviews and group sessions.
Those
formerly known as directors, producers or leaders have a myriad of other new roles to choose from:
collaboration designer, curator, ego manager, conductor, organizer, quantum chief, guide,
facilitator or cat-herder.This article is part of Collective Wisdom, an Immerse series created in collaboration with Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab. Immerse’s series features excerpts from MIT Open Documentary Lab’s larger field study — Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines and with Algorithms — as well as bonus interviews and exclusive content.
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