This creative and learning residency was aimed at all audiences but particularly at critical thinkers, policy makers, young people and those who work with them. An Garda Síochana (the Irish police force) also participated in the programme and crucially, the learning from this process will directly inform the content a new local training scheme for Gardai, aimed at more constructive interactions with young people.
Policing Dialogue Invite
Following the exhibition and residency and marking the end of the What’s the Story? Collective, Rialto Youth Project published a 24 page newspaper aimed at capturing some of the learning from the four year project. The Policing Dialogues Review, a 24 page newspaper which presents personal and analytical perspectives on the project can be downloaded here.
Download The Policing Dialogues Review
For further information about this project, see: ‘TEN: Territory, Encounter & Negotiation’, a critical memoir by Fiona Whelan, 2014.
For further reflection and analyses of this event, see: ‘Beating the Bounds of Socially Engaged Art? A Transdisciplinary Dialogue on a Collaborative Art Project with Youth in Dublin’, Fiona Whelan & Kevin Ryan, Field Journal, Spring 2016.