Reanimating Data with the Proud Trust

In 2019-2020 the ESRC funded 'Reanimating data: experiments with people, places and archives'. Part of the project involved staging a series of reanimations using data from interviews with young women from Manchester, conducted thirty years previously as part of the Women, Risk and AIDS Project (WRAP 1988-1990). Each reanimation involved a collaboration between young women, educators and researchers and used creative methods to explore the WRAP data and bring it to life in new ways. This item includes documentation and materials from workshops with a LGBT+ young women's group at the Proud Trust as part of the Reanimating Data Project. The workshops took place in Manchester (UK) between November 2019 and March 2020. During a series of workshops led by Ali Ronan, artist and youth worker Hebe Phillips and youth workers at the Proud Trust, a group of young women took part in games and activities exploring and reusing some of the WRAP data that related to lesbian or queer desires, relationships and identities. The group were able to have in-depth discussions about a range of themes relating to the WRAP material including feminism, sex education, sexuality, social change, sexual politics and what it might mean to be a young woman. Over time the group explored creative ways of representing themselves and their own stories. They went on to each create a felt square to express something about themselves, stitched together by Hebe to make a quilt. Additional squares were created by women who attended a celebration event for the Reanimating Data Project at Manchester Cental Library on 7th March 2020. The finished banner is titled: 30 squares for 30 years. Three sessions with the Proud Trust were documented for the project. In session one the group use WRAP data extracts to make data collage poems. In session two they re-use the questions from the interviews to interview each other and themselves. In a third session the group meet with original WRAP researcher Rachel Thomson to reflect on the project and discuss related themes. Included here are: Notes documenting workshops one and two and photographs of the materials created in the workshops. Images of items created in the workshops including an image of the banner: 30 squares for 30 years. Data extracts used in the workshop activities. Anonymised transcript of the discussion between Proud Trust participants and Rachel Thomson. Audio and transcript of a conversation between Hebe and Bethan, a youing person attending the Proud Trust, reflecting on the project at the celebration event.

2019至2020年间，英国经济与社会研究委员会（Economic and Social Research Council, ESRC）资助了"激活数据：关于人、场所与档案的实验"项目。该项目的一部分工作，是利用三十年前作为"女性、风险与艾滋病项目（Women, Risk and AIDS Project, WRAP 1988-1990）"组成部分，对曼彻斯特年轻女性开展访谈所获取的数据，举办一系列数据激活活动。每一场数据激活活动均由年轻女性、教育工作者与研究人员协作开展，通过创意方法对WRAP项目的访谈数据进行挖掘，并以全新形式赋予数据生命力。本数据集包含"激活数据项目"中，与英国骄傲信托基金会（Proud Trust）LGBT+年轻女性群体开展工作坊相关的文档与素材。该系列工作坊于2019年11月至2020年3月间在英国曼彻斯特举办。由艺术家阿里·罗南（Ali Ronan）、青年工作者希布·菲利普斯（Hebe Phillips）以及英国骄傲信托基金会的青年工作者牵头，一群年轻女性参与了各类游戏与互动活动，探索并复用WRAP项目中与女同性恋或酷儿群体的欲望、亲密关系及身份认同相关的数据内容。参与者围绕WRAP项目材料涉及的多元主题展开了深入讨论，涵盖女权主义、性教育、性取向、社会变迁、性政治，以及作为年轻女性的身份意涵。随着活动推进，团队探索了以创意方式呈现自我与个人故事的路径，最终每位参与者都制作了一块毛毡方巾，用以表达自我认知，这些方巾由希布缝制成一条拼布挂毯。另有部分女性在2020年3月7日于曼彻斯特中央图书馆举办的"激活数据项目"庆祝活动中，额外制作了毛毡方巾。最终完成的挂毯题为《30块方巾，30载时光》。本项目共记录了与英国骄傲信托基金会开展的三次工作坊：第一次工作坊中，团队利用WRAP项目的数据节选制作了数据拼贴诗；第二次工作坊中，成员们复用原访谈问卷，互相进行访谈并开展自我访谈；第三次工作坊中，团队与WRAP项目原研究员瑞秋·汤姆森（Rachel Thomson）会面，对项目进行复盘并探讨相关主题。本数据集收录内容包括：记录第一、二次工作坊的笔记，以及工作坊中创作的素材照片（含挂毯《30块方巾，30载时光》的影像）；工作坊活动中使用的数据节选；英国骄傲信托基金会参与者与瑞秋·汤姆森之间讨论的匿名转录文本；以及希布与参与庆祝活动的年轻参与者贝丝安（Bethan）围绕项目展开对话的音频与转录文本。