Critical Response Process Resources
Welcome!
We’ve assembled some resources and assets that we think might be useful as you pursue your learning-about and practice-of Critical Response Process.
Read our Books
Critical Response Process: a method for getting useful feedback on anything you make, from dance to dessert
In this concise primer, authors Liz Lerman and John Borstel give a detailed introduction to the Process. Beginning with its three roles and describing its four core steps, the book offers guidance for facilitators, practical examples, and useful variations.
Critique Is Creative: The Critical Response Process in Theory and Action
In this first in-depth study of CRP, Lerman and her long-term collaborator John Borstel describe in detail the four-step process, its origins and principles. The book also includes essays on CRP from a wide range of contributors.
With insight, ingenuity, and the occasional provocation, these practitioners shed light on the applications and variations of CRP in the contexts of art, education, and community life.
New to Critical Response Process?
Watch this series of videos using cake as the work-in-progress to help you learn the basic principles of the roles and steps (about 30 minutes).
Background & Basics
Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process helps to shape constructive dialogues about works-in-progress, whatever they may be, from dance to dessert. Using a series of steps guided by a facilitator, CRP affords both the maker and a group of responders a chance to ask questions, share reactions, and voice opinions with the goal of building a stronger work of art (or cake).
The Process offers artists and makers valuable information, and engages professional peers, audiences, and community members in the art-making process. Beyond its application in the arts, the Process contains useful approaches for all kinds of feedback conversations at home and in varied work settings.
CRP roles & steps >
Critical Response Process: the basics
Learn the basics of Critical Response Process: The roles, the core steps of the Process, and further tools for engaging with and improving the work.
Applying Critical Response Process online
Practical tools and methodologies to help you apply Critical Response Process online.
Mutual Coaching
A variation on the Critical Response Process, Mutual Coaching is specialized for peer-to-peer interaction and collaboration.
More Critical Response Process videos
Browse our instructional CRP videos and Zoom webinars.
