I’ve come to the conclusion (with the help of many kind souls who have generously offered advice) that I have been (embarrassingly) misusing the term “relational.” The term still applies to the types of projects that tinygrants will fund, but it also excludes many possibilities. I will start using the term “creative interventions” instead of “relational projects.” I think it’s easier to understand and is far more inclusive.
Tinkering with language and terminology has raised several other issues, namely about selection criteria. The application guidelines currently state that selection will be based on accordance to the tinygrants mission statement, creativity and ingenuity, and viability/logistics. I think over the coming weeks I will be including other criteria to more specifically address the common threads that run through the kinds of creative interventions I am looking for, such as activating a public, initiating dialogue (implicitly or explicitly), visibility in non-traditional spaces, education components, inventive use of funds, etc.
With these changes, the overarching principles behind tinygrants remain the same. The coming specifications will only be to name what has already been inferred.
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