An interdisciplinary approach to using Imagination and Co-creation with communities, each project reflects a collaborative process of emergent knowledge-making, grounded in lived experience and artistic inquiry.

MIGRATION & BELONGING

Co-creation with displaced peoples as part of community building and integration.

The work centres on amplifying negotiated and shared narratives that support resilience and resist reductive representations.

Featured Project:

CEPA

CEPA (2023) demonstrated the power of improvisation in co-creation by giving Ukrainian refugees choice around the emergent narrative shared through performance art with the wider community.

In partnership with Dublin City University 

Funded by Irish Research Council

  • Collaborative creation of performance using the “Viewpoints” approach

  • Choric and choreographed performance art gathering diverse experiences of loss and resilience

  • Public presentations to expand discourse on migration.

  • Research outputs

Joseph Gerard Photography