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11 Murals and photography in community engagement and assessment

  • Holly Feen-Calligan , Elizabeth Barton , Julie Moreno , Emma Buzzard and Marion Jackson
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Abstract

This chapter describes how photography and mural methods help promote cross-disciplinary and community collaboration, enhance the experience of individual participants as well as that of the community, document university–community projects, and assess outcomes through constituent voices (film), photographs, and mural painting processes. Arts-based research methods and their applications for social work are exemplified by a project of an urban research university’s community engagement program: ArtsCorps.

Abstract

This chapter describes how photography and mural methods help promote cross-disciplinary and community collaboration, enhance the experience of individual participants as well as that of the community, document university–community projects, and assess outcomes through constituent voices (film), photographs, and mural painting processes. Arts-based research methods and their applications for social work are exemplified by a project of an urban research university’s community engagement program: ArtsCorps.

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. List of figures and tables xi
  4. Notes on contributors xiii
  5. Introduction 1
  6. Arts-based research as a method to understand and give voice to marginalised groups
  7. Using arts-based methods to explore existential issues around ageing 13
  8. Arts- and music-based activities and nondeliberative participatory research methods: building connection and community 24
  9. Arts-based methods to co-create knowledge and reconstruct power relations with marginalised women in and through research 33
  10. Autoethnographic playwriting and performance for self-healing and advocacy 45
  11. Using photography to research the ‘other’: the validity of photography for social work research – a visual case study from China 55
  12. Mixed arts-based methods as a platform for expressing lived experience 68
  13. Arts-based methods to support and reveal new mothers’ and families’ experiences: a positive parenting and feminist approach 77
  14. Using arts-based research to listen to, and give voice to, children in social work
  15. “I don’t like the cameras in the house. They’re looking at us all the time”: the contribution of Photovoice to children in a post-hospitalisation programme 89
  16. Arts-based research work with migrant children 102
  17. Using creative art research approaches to assess arts-based interventions with children in post-disaster contexts 117
  18. Arts-based research as a way for researchers and community members to understand communities
  19. Murals and photography in community engagement and assessment 129
  20. Forum theatre as participatory action research with community workers 139
  21. A/r/tography, rhizomatic storytelling, and ripple effects mapping: a combined arts-based and community mapping methodology to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 expressive arts support groups for frontliners in the Philippines 148
  22. Art and artefact: displaying social work through objects 162
  23. Building research capacity: scaffolding the process through arts-based pedagogy 170
  24. Art as a way of improving participatory action research: an experience with youngsters with an intellectual disability and their families 181
  25. Epilogue 198
  26. Index 200
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