Interwoven Arts CIC measures success across three impact fronts.
Three impact fronts
“The impact we are building toward is measurable on three fronts.
Physiology. Visitors leave more regulated than they arrived — measurable shifts in heart rate variability, respiration, and self-reported wellbeing across the installation visit. We are not making a subjective claim about how the art feels. We are designing for a physiological outcome and measuring whether we achieve it.
Access. Families who find mainstream cultural events inaccessible can attend ours. The installations are designed for neurodivergent neurology from the ground up.
Communication. The co-creation described above is not an abstract principle — it produces observable, documentable moments of connection between people, and in particular between people who have no other shared medium of expression. We track these.”
(The co-creation referred to in the Communication front is the responsive sensor-and-AI interaction model described in how we do it.)
Measurement methods
Within each impact front:
Physiology — heart rate variability (HRV) and respiration measurement on a consenting sub-sample of visitors, supplemented by standardised self-reported wellbeing scales captured before and after the installation visit.
Access — visitor counts, accessibility-need data (with consent), family-attendance metrics, and qualitative testimony from primary-community visitors and their families. SEND school, respite service, and care home partnership counts.
Communication — co-creative moments captured via the installations’ own interaction data (presence, gesture, touch, breath inputs through the responsive system), supplemented with participant and family observation where consent permits.
Research and development cycle
The R&D loop — acquire → test → deploy → measure → adjust → publish — is the structural mechanism by which measurement feeds installation design and design feeds the next research cycle (see how we do it).
Quantitative targets
Multi-year targets:
- 900–1,200 direct beneficiaries (disabled and neurodivergent visitors and their families) over the first three years.
- 7–8 SEND / respite settings engaged regionally by Year 3.
- First public installation at Arley Arboretum, winter 2026–27.
- 80+ consenting visitors providing engagement and wellbeing data in Year 1, with pilot HRV/respiration measures from a smaller sub-sample.
- 2 SEND school outreach partnerships by end of Year 1 (Wyre Forest School, Aurora Wilden View School).
- Year 1 case study and preliminary research findings published.
- Year 2 findings submitted for peer review and released as preprint.
- Open Access Toolkit published by end of Year 3, enabling other organisations to replicate sensory-accessible installation work.
These targets are contingent on funding being secured (see how we are funded).
Publication and transparency
- Year 1 case study and preliminary findings published as preprint.
- Year 2 findings submitted for peer review.
- Year 3 full open-source research toolkit published.
- Annual CIC34 community-benefit report filed with the CIC Regulator.
- Annual accounts filed at Companies House.
- Expectations and outcomes are tracked in the Transparency layer of this vault: expectation notes describe what the work is set to produce; outcome notes describe what it has produced. Both remain in place once an expectation is borne out (or not), preserving the comparison between forecast and result.