ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the role of Participatory Art (PA) within the contexts and focuses on the potential of PA to aid development and build cohesion and capacity, as well as reflecting upon the difficulties of sustaining, scaling and developing such projects to create autonomy and ownership within those communities. It also examines the potential of intercommunal mentorship and the development of conductive education through intergenerational working as a means of further developing the application of PA methodologies and in translating our findings for other communities at risk. The context of risk, and particularly of communities at risk of external environmental factors, such as earthquakes, pollution and tsunamis, formed the background to the deployment of a PA approach in our research. Threats to the lived environment and social cohesion demand new approaches to seeking sustainable, democratic and consensual solutions to the problems of living with risk.
