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How creativity unlocks connection
Dancing, poetry and play build trust that surveys and focus groups can’t
A former courthouse. A slate-mining town in the mountains of North Wales.
It’s 10 o’clock on a Saturday morning in the middle of winter, and a room full of people are dancing in the dark. Believe it or not, this is what research into local journalism can look like! First we made a playlist of everyone’s…
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