%0 Journal Article %T Congruence Engine in action %A Helen Graham %A Arran J Rees %D 2022 %V Congruence Engine %N Autumn 2022 %K Congruence Engine %K Editorial %X %Z https://www.ukri.org/blog/five-projects-join-the-towards-a-national-collection-community/; https://www.nationalcollection.org.uk/about %Z https://ceblog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/2022/02/22/we-are-congruence-engine-metaphors-and-project-conduct/ %Z Basecamp is a digital project management space that enables different forms of collaboration, both synchronous and asynchronous in nature. %Z See project blog: Reflecting on the Textiles pilot, https://ceblog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/2022/08/22/reflecting-on-the-textiles-pilot/ (accessed 25 August 2022). %Z The importance of different roles in collaborative research was emphasised by Keri Facer and Briony Enright in their report on the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Connected Communities programme – these include the facilitator but also the designer, the diplomat and the conscience, among others (2016, pp 4, 74–5). %Z Patricia Gaya and Mary Brydon-Miller suggest the intimate connections between action research as a prefigurative practice and utopian orientations. In the context of universities they ‘propose action research as a productive means of engaging with the challenge of re-imagining higher education, positioning this as a critical utopian and prefigurative project which also involves enlightened recognition of the entanglement between presents and futures’ (2017, p 36). %Z See our call for participation in the latest round of workshops on the textiles industry. https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Manchester-Textiles-Workshop.pdf %Z Thinking museums through emergent action research has implications for persistent debates in museum participation, enabling the mission of museums to be re-conceptualised as being an inquiry into conservation (in material, and social ways) of collections (e.g. Graham, 2019). %I The Science Museum Group %@ 2054-5770 %B eng %U https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/congruence-engine-in-action/ %J Science Museum Group Journal