Creative Publics Lab was a mobile, pop-up, voter engagement project that brought together artists, students and community members to make art inspired by political issues leading up to the 2015 Canadian federal election.
Creative Publics Lab was both a research project into new forms of creative political participation and a voter engagement project. As such, our overarching goals were to both uncover new knowledge of political engagement and to engage young Canadians in the election. The project was led by Simon Fraser University (SFU) School of Communications PhD student Tara Mahoney and operated in partnership with the SSHRC-funded research project, ‘Art for Social Change: an integrated research program in teaching, evaluation and capacity-building’.
Click the image above to read the Creative Publics Final Report or click here.