ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the concepts of creativity and collaboration are embedded in the participatory process and how involvement in the process can engage and transform stakeholders and the public in a shared understanding of the cultural site. It explains the process of participatory mapping and community consultation, highlighting how interdisciplinary negotiation takes place through dialogical and collaborative platforms and how the team integrates their tools, medium, and expertise into an interdisciplinary project. The chapter then highlights the case studies of collaborative interventions involving artists-designers, academics, and other professionals working in a multidisciplinary team in multicultural George Town, Malaysia. The first case study involves redesigning a public wet market building. The second case study focuses on collecting and interpreting residents oral history. The case studies illustrate the significance of working collaboratively across the fields of arts and the science and demonstrate how interdisciplinary negotiation can take place when dialogical and collaborative platforms created.
