Photovoice is an engagement and research process by which people – usually those with limited power due to poverty, language barriers, race, class, ethnicity, gender, culture, or other circumstances – use video and/or photo images to capture aspects of their environment and experiences and share them with others.

Micro-utopias are temporary manifestation of an ideal civic culture where participants test an aspirational political concept, process or social interaction.

Public Policy Collage is a method developed in Creative Publics Lab that brings together participatory art and pop-up democracy methods to offer participants creative and spontaneous ways to engage with public policy issues.

Housed in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, Creative Publics Lab is an incubator for student-led participatory politics. The lab works in collaboration with Vancouver’s social sector to provide course-based opportunities for students to build professional networks and earn credit toward their academic program by...