One Nation/One Project Research Brief #2
May 1st, 2024
Gray Davidson Carroll, Jill Sonke
The ONOP initiative leverages collaborations between the arts, public health, and municipal sectors to build health, health equity, and wellbeing, and the campaign is designed to communicate the relationship between the arts and health to the general public.
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In 2022 and 2023, One Nation/One Project conducted site visits in the first nine communities participating in the project to get to know the communities and to engage in project planning. At this time, two One Nation/One Project leaders, Michael Rohd and Christina Eskridge, both with extensive backgrounds in theater, created a sensory exercise activity that invited community members to reflect on and describe the sights, sounds, smells, touch and tastes unique to their communities. This sensory data, and the resulting data poems, were intended to create a “portrait” of each community to help ground ONOP’s research and researchers in the words and experiences of each community’s members.