About the seminar

My seminar will reflect on work in progress that I have done with respect to using arts-based researcher methods within the topics of climate change, environmentalism and migration studies.

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Abstract

Between 2020 and 2023, within the framework of a research project supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Swedish Research Council, I have employed future visioning workshopping in Sudan together with environmentalists and graffiti artists on documenting the past and visioning the future through collaborative graffiti and environmentalism, alliances with Sudanese artists.

Furthermore, I have employed arts-based methods within migration, within the framework of the research environment “Social institutions, political governance and integration of refugees”, SIPGI, in collaboration with Gothenburg University https://www.gu.se/en/sipgi-researchenvironment which runs from 2020-2026. I have used immersive video for fieldwork and collaborative workshops with Syrian refugees in Sweden, Turkey and Jordan.

In spring this year, we organized a workshop on this topic with the K3 arts-based research group members, MIM and our partners at GU (Centre for Global Migration). Work was presented about scholarly work, either ongoing or recently completed, where artist-scholars have applied arts-based, or artistic research methods, from body mapping, comics, drawing, video, performance, visual arts, immersive, theatre or music.

This seminar will take place just before my 2-month fellowship at Monash university in Australia, which starts in November. During this period I will work with the Emerging Technology lab, headed up by design and futures anthropologist Sarah Pink. I will focus on writing about the immersive, collaborative and arts-based methodology used in both projects, mentioned above, and its significance for sensory and visual anthropology.

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