Cross-cultural partnership template

Created by James Leach, Wendy Seltzer and Jon Ippolito, this project provided a template agreement for research and other encounters between cultures. In Crucible, this has been interpreted as potentially referring to different research cultures in a Western context, rather than being restricted to the cultural perspectives of traditional anthropology as described in the Subversion, Conversion and Development conference where the template was discussed.

http://www.connected-knowledge.net/ http://newmedia.umaine.edu/stillwater/partnership/partnership_template.html

The Crucible project Improcess used the template as a basis for negotiating collaboration between Anglia Ruskin University, the Centre for Music and Science and Computer Laboratory, and staff at Microsoft Research Cambridge who engaged in the project in a private capacity. The project results have been extremely successful - although this need not be attributed solely to the template!