'Creative Thursdays' - Webinar 3: 28.01.2021
'Creative Thursdays' - Webinar 3: 28.01.2021
Wake up, get up: participation, imaginative graphic ethnography and the benefits in (re)telling a community's stories
The third ‘SEEYouth Creative Thursdays’ webinar (and our first of 2021) will feature a presentation by the project team from the University of Leeds, UK.
It takes place on Thursday, January 28th 2021 at 9am - 10:30am EST
(11am BRT / 2pm GMT / 4pm EET).
The webinar link can be found at the end of this post.
Description
This talk focuses on the telling of community stories as a method of activation which can create positive links between people and place - in particular, how it was used to reflect on one community’s ambition and efforts to regenerate their community centre in the township of Samora Machel in Cape Town, South Africa.
Our latest webinar aims to show how new tools for collaborative storytelling can encourage a type of storytelling which captures significant moments in a community’s lived experience and which facilitates novel approaches to participation.
The use of these imaginative visual and (typo)graphic ‘design devices’ becomes a way for a community to recognise their own sense of agency - through the identification, communication and documentation of their past motivations, experiences and values in their own words.
We can recognise a value in these acts of articulation and association, and how a story’s power or importance can be reinforced in the process of it being retold. This also presents an opportunity for empowerment, perhaps by seeing this story as one chapter among those still to be told in a community’s future.
Speakers:
Dr. Paul Wilson - School of Design, University of Leeds
Dr. Alessandro Medici - School of Design, University of Leeds
Format:
A presentation of approximately 30 minutes will be followed by a Q&A period and discussion.
To join the webinar, please use this link:
https://uqac.zoom.us/j/4927583531?pwd=Q0R2aDN4bGdDLzVNZEo1WStwU0tjUT09
The ‘SEEYouth Creative Thursdays’ are a series of webinars that highlights how creativity can empower youth and young adults who face challenging situations.
Every month, a member of the international SEEYouth team speaks directly from experience about how to run art and design workshops depending on participant profiles, overall objectives, and available resources.
The webinars are an opportunity to share perspectives, discuss best practices, and get inspired to prevent marginalization and increase opportunities for youth using creativity-based methods.
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