Acknowledgements

Many dialogues and deliberations have informed how this web-platform has been designed, conceptualised and structured.

Decisions about how to represent  social sculpture as a field of transformation have been based on our own perspectives of what is needed, as well as from years of exchanges in public contexts about our work and what social sculpture is.  The questions, engagements and reflections of this huge stream of people are embodied in how we have shaped this platform.  We gratefully acknowledge the input and support of the following people:

 

Rosa van Wyk - who listened to what we wanted and needed, had a dream about how a social sculpture site might look and then designed it for us as a gift

 

Tom Adams - our web developer, who has helped us realise what we wanted and taught us everything that we need to know to develop this site

 

Peter Schata, Boris and Michael Bader, James Reed and Alex Arteaga - who helped to conceptualise how the site might function

 

Wolfgang Zumdick - who has talked through the structure, written core texts and hung in there when it seemed impossible to continue 

 

Volker Harlan - for many kinds of support, including texts

 

Johannes Stuttgen - for his willingness to let his texts be used on this site 

 

Caroline Tisdall - who has supported the SSRU in so many ways, including much of the funding for the development of this website

 

Ruth Harvey-Regan - who came to the rescue recently and helped to get the site online

 

Steve King - who never gave up on me or the site

 

Other members of the steering group and wider network - who have actively supported the development the SSRU and the field of social sculpture over the past few years: 
Hildegard Kurt, Nicholas Stronzcyk, Sven Riemer, Chris Seeley, Ian Cook, Walter Kugler, Frances Burton, Paul Mackay, Bodo von Plato, Graham van Wyk, Vera Kopehel, Rainer Rappmann, Enno Schmidt, Renwick Rose, Kerry Bradshaw and Jane Rendell.

 

My colleagues in the Arts Department at Oxford Brookes: in particular, Janice Howard, Ray Lee and Paul Whitty, who have helped make possible the MA in Social Sculpture and the ongoing work of the SSRU.

 

Project participants, lecture audiences, participants in exchanges, workshops and seminars, challenging friends and students at Oxford Brookes: how would things ever have got this far without having been repeatedly challenged to find better ways of articulating things?