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This chapter presents a case study that demonstrates how an oral history project was able to uncover local, vernacular and indigenous knowledges and get them more effectively applied within a local planning context. The university facilitated the co-production of knowledge through two specific activities that created a community knowledge asset from which ongoing relationships could be negotiated safely and confidently. Community participation was encouraged through documentation of oral history, shared food from diverse cultures, information sharing and media promotion, and critical reflection by linking storytelling and planning. The university affected the roles of broker and mediator to demystify the confusion and complexity in the public domain that often surrounds knowledge generation, through an interdisciplinary approach as collaborator, mediator and provider of independent critical analysis. The collaboration between researchers, practitioners and local communities can generate a set of new and different perspectives to create new knowledge. This engaged research had an intentional public purpose. Its outcomes offered both direct and indirect benefits on participants and opened up a better understanding of how sources and forms of knowledge relate to one another.
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Derrett, R. (2013). CelebratingWorthy Conversations. In: Benneworth, P. (eds) University Engagement With Socially Excluded Communities. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4875-0_2
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