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Tools

Tools

Playing cards with text, "collabORATE"

The Global Arts + Humanities has developed collabORATE, a card-based pedagogical tool that facilitates the collaborative process for cross-disciplinary and cross-functional teams. collabORATE contains four suits. Suits are non-hierarchical and represent repeating stages in project cycles: Aspire, Play, Form, Refine. There are also four Context cards that represent conditions that shape your process. Instructions include six modes of game play to facilitate discussion and productive conversation, clarify aspirations and best practices, amplify diverse viewpoints, problem-solve and harness collective wisdom. 

For cross-disciplinary research teams

(Research-focused teams of faculty, staff, students and/or community partners)

collabORATE fosters dialogue by:

  • Translating disciplinary assumptions and practices for use in new contexts and/or applications
  • Creating new conceptual, methodological and theoretical innovations to transform discipline-specific approaches to address common issues
  • Amplifying the ability of researchers to reach wider audiences and communicate diverse viewpoints
  • Embedding a keen awareness of the ethical and processual in every stage of research

For cross-functional groups

(Leadership teams, committees, advisory bodies, community partners)

collabORATE fosters dialogue by:

  • Translating domain-specific assumptions and practices to establish shared goals
  • Harnessing collective wisdom to maximize access to expertise and experience
  • Identifying challenges to develop innovative solutions
  • Reflecting upon goals and impact throughout all stages of a collaboration

Now accepting collabORATE session requests!

Click the button below to request a GAH-led collabORATE session or complete the "Train the Trainer" session to become a facilitator for your unit. 

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(IN DEVELOPMENT) Project Impact

Project Impact is a digital tool that emphasizes qualitative metrics. It is generative and evaluative and can be used at multiple phases of a project by cross-disciplinary teams and individual PIs. Additional uses include assistance with year-end reporting, grant writing, mission statements and envisioning project parameters. 

As a platform for team-based collaboration, Project Impact increases ease of communication between cross-disciplinary teams; collates project materials/data; facilitates co-writing, editing and text production; centralizes task and resource management; models conceptual facilitation, goal setting, milestone tracking, and more.