collabORATE Card Game
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
(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.
Freedom Dreaming Tool
The Freedom Dreaming Tool, developed in alignment with the 2023-24 theme, Freedom Dreams, and in collaboration with the Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project, facilitates relational thinking about complex social challenges. It encourages users to imagine a world free from harm and provides strategies for enacting change.
The tool has been used in a range of contexts, including by the Liberation At the Margins Collective (LAM) — an intellectual community at the Ohio Reformatory for Women made up of incarcerated students, university faculty and OPEEP staff.
Archive This!
The Freedom Dreaming Tool, developed in alignment with the 2023-24 theme, Freedom Dreams, is a folio that contains a bookmark, sticker and crossword on an interior pocket. On the back, the folio contains an "Archive of Ohio State Archives," as a means of making the university's 50+ archives more accessible to Society of Fellows researchers and faculty, staff and students.