How might we ground the commissioning and curation process more deliberately within the diverse yet explicit needs of our neighbourhoods and in new communities of place and interest? What might this mean in practice?  Can active collaboration and co-creation between artists and citizens generate work that has the potential to be truly transformative: culturally and socially? With comparative case studies from Concomitentes-Madrid, coculture-Berlin, Ettijahat-Beirut, Create-Dublin, Platforma-UK and more. This conversation takes place as part of Counterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab Programme.