Voices and Visions: Creativity as a Transformative Process in Three Northern Contexts
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This project is an arts-based, qualitative examination of the phenomenological reality of individuals who live on the edge of society in Prince George, British Columbia through the use of multimedia collage. The primary group consisted of homeless women living in an emergency shelter in downtown Prince George, British Columbia. Students and social activists were included to highlight some of the common threads and experiences reported. The primary discussion is centered on the women from the shelter. The project provided opportunity for observation of the potential of art as a mechanism for theorizing about the structures of oppression that mediate everyday experiences; additionally, I note the connection between the creative process, feminine solidarity, and healing while creating a model for community arts-based research that can contribute positively to the individuals, agencies, and research institutions who participate in such work. The research is intentionally not quantitative; however, statistical data would be useful to underscore the value of arts based research. Further research could be directed in a number of areas including the use of creativity for identity recovery, particularly for First Nations clients struggling with addiction/trauma issues.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.032 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".