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Participatory Visual & Digital Research: Studying & Transforming Urban Environments Prof. Krista Harper Anthropology & CPPAUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
kharper@anthro.umass.edu@kristamharper
Studying urban environments: The view from anthropology
Beliefs, power, & urban environments
“Senses of place” & place attachment
Cultural forms of wayfinding, dwelling, & everyday practices
Methods: participant observation, interviews, “eliciting the participants’ point of view”
Transforming Urban Environments:
Planning, Policy, & Design
Human environment
Participatory Design
Universal Design
But how do we get there from here?
Participatory Visual & Digital
Research
Participatory action research (PAR) Visual &
digital media
The Participatory Turn
Critique of traditional ethnography Post-colonial, feminist, postmodern
Awareness of power relationships
Calls for “engaged research”
Rise of Participatory Action Research (PAR)
Digital Media Technology
Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control
Studying Environments with Participatory Visual & Digital
Methods
Participatory digital archives, museums, & exhibitions
Participatory GIS (PGIS) & mapping
Participatory video
Digital storytelling
PhotoVoice
The PVDR process
Negotiating goals
Integrating participants in research process
Using appropriate technologies
Considering ethics of representation
Anticipating audiences and dissemination
Participatory Digital Archives
Photo credits: Brown Paper photo archives (top)
Photo credits: Ilya Utekhin
PGIS
South Africa: Decolonizing land use planning
New Zealand: Māori GIS (left)
PGIS & Storymapping
“Third Ward Speaks”: Putting an African-American neighborhood’s history on the map
murmur Toronto
“locative storytelling”via web & smartphone
Participatory Video
Digital Storytelling Darcy Alexandra’s work with asylum
seekers in Ireland
Photovoice
• Photo• Voice• Being heard
Using Photovoice to study urban environments
Hungary: Understandings of environmental injustice United States: “A place for stories” after urban renewal Portugal: Senses & affect in urban gardening
Hungary: Understandings of environmental injustice
Sajószentpéter• Pop. 14000 (2500
Roma), no. Hungary• Glass & coal city; hard hit after 1989• Roma (Gypsy)
neighborhood• Collaboration with
SAKKF, community organization
•Six young people from SAKKF, a Roma community org.•Anthropologist & SAKKF president as facilitators
Environment:Values &
Issues
Photos: Judit Bari & Sándor Keleman
Photo: Gábor Szabó
Values: Bicycling
Concerns: Sewerage
Photo: Sándor Keleman
Photo: Betti Rúzsa
Concerns: Water
Photo: Klaudia Keleman
Photo Exhibitions
in Sajószentpéter& Budapest
United States: “A place for stories” after urban renewalTallahassee, FL & Springfield, MA
Photo: Gretchen Gano
Portugal: Senses & affect in urban gardening
Photo: Sónia Gáspar
“[Here is] someone literally, with her hands on the land…Only in doing it will things germinate, right? If we are not engaged and willing to do something – in this case to plant a garden – nothing happens. So, we have to put our hands on the land to make things grow.”
Gostamos de mexer na terra
Adaptamo-nos e resistimos
Photo: Elis Serra
Concluding thoughts
Participatory visual & digital research offers:
New ways to elicit stories & collect data
Engaging participants more meaningfully
Policy impact
Thank you!
Questions? Contact me atkharper@anthro.umass.edu
On Twitter: @kristamharper
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