Poverty Truth Community Year of Reimagining: The Digital Quilt Project

The Poverty Truth Community (PTC; formerly the first Poverty Truth Commission, launched in Scotland) is a movement for change led by people experiencing poverty. The PTC is incubated within Faith in Community Scotland, a registered Scottish charity. This work centres a collaboration between PTC, the Binks Hub, and the University of Edinburgh Library Service to support the co-production of a digital quilt resource to capture and communicate PTC’s legacy of work. This combined research and knowledge exchange project will collaboratively create a digital quilt comprised of community-donated images, artefacts and texts and associated audio recordings, snippets of conversation and soundscapes (every day and background sounds) captured during community gatherings. It will capture and communicate PTC’s work, thereby providing both a legacy for past work and the foundation for their re-imagined future, as well as informing wider work by poverty organisations, activists, and policymakers. The process will explore how digital quilt-making can integrate knowledge creation and exchange, forming an overlay between activism, art, and research, and contributing to individual and organisational wellbeing and flourishing.