Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Description
I offer the concept of blossoming as a tool and aim in participatory action research (PAR) projects. Using the It could have been worse project (2021-2022) I will discuss how blossoming was applied to enhance participants' feelings of well-being and ethical safety, and how it benefited the art itself. The project involved working with six refugees in Geneva to create intermedia portraits that emphasised their freedom of speech and self-curation. I will screen some of the portraits, discuss the nuts-and-bolts of creating them, and comment on the process using the concept of blossoming and a PAR lens.