Research meets art: Communicating research on public involvement
Sound art piece on co-creation and participation Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt
This project is a collaboration between researchers, co-researchers with a refugee background, a communicator and an professional artist. Together we explore how to do meaningful and ethical involvement with forced migrants - and how the results can be communicated through art.
Details
- Period: 2022-12-01 – 2024-11-30
- Funder: Swedish Research Council
- Type of funding: Projektbidrag
Description
In the project, researchers, co-researchers with a refugee background, a communicator and a professional artist collaborate on what is the main question of the research - how to do meaningful and ethical co-creative research with refugees and how this can be communicated outside academia. Within the project we create three communication platforms:
- A handbook with a practical guide to ethical involvement in research with people with experience of forced migration.
- An experience-based artwork, derived from how the research results are interpreted by a professional artist.
- Training materials for researchers and organisations that want to work with involvement.
This project builds on research findings from a PhD project on involving forced migrants as co-researchers. The results are based on data from behavioural observations, focus group discussions and analyses of involvement processes.
The project will run during 2023 and 2024.
Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt
About the art piece:
The artist and composer Anna Haglund, in collaboration with the research group CHAP, Uppsala University, has created a sound art piece that, with a focus on co-creation and participation, examines care and trust.
When do you feel like a human being? During 2023–2024, Anna Haglund has been an artist-in-residence in the research group CHAP (Child Health and Parenting) at Uppsala University. Based primarily on Elin Inge's research on emotional and ethical factors in co-creative research, the interactive sound art piece “In(ter)vention: I felt like a human being” was created.
In the work, Anna Haglund explores how we can create spaces where care, trust and listening can take place and form the basis for interpersonal coexistence. What happens to us when we find ourselves in situations that require our presence as human beings, beyond our social or professional roles?
Artistic advisors: Elize Arvefjord, Johanna Hästö, Ellen Söderhult and Emma Örn
The work is available in both Swedish and English.
Would you like to experience the art work?
The art work is shown at Uppsala art museum during September 2024.
See dates for viewings at the museum, and book a place
There is also an opportunity for groups to experience the art work together. The 8th, 9th and 10th of October 2024, there will be lunch viewings hosted at Segerstedhuset. It is free of charge but the number of spots is limited. You are welcome to book a shared lunch activity for your team.
Book a lunch viewing at Segerstedthuset
The art work can be shown at other places to, if requested. For more information, contact Anna Haglund.
About the handbook
As part of the project, a handbook was created for those who want to work co-creatively with research. It offers support for conducting co-creative research in a way that is helpful for the research and good for everyone involved. The handbook can be used by those already working co-creatively as well as by those curious about starting.
The authors of the handbook are researchers who work co-creatively, co-researchers with experience from various projects, and a communicator. The research behind the handbook was conducted within the CHAP research group at Uppsala University and is part of Elin Inge's dissertation. In the handbook, we answer the most common questions co-creative researchers encounter and propose a framework for working co-creatively in a meaningful and ethical way. We hope this handbook will help you appreciate co-creative research as much as we do.
The handbook is only available in Swedish.
Project Team
Elin Inge, PhD student
Anna Haglund, Artist
Helena Conning, Communicator
Georgina Warner, Associate professor
Nimo Elmi & Yasmin Cumar, Co-researchers with lived experience
Anna Sarkadi, Professor
Contact
Reach out to Elin Inge with questions regarding this project.