TOOLS & POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
DO##HOME Activist Guidebook
Most often we associate home with something private – a place where we can shut out the outside world and find comfort. But have you ever considered that there may be much more at stake when we do home?
DO##HOME is a plug’n play home-activist guidebook that can inspire and assist you and your allies to create new understandings of what it means and takes to find one’s way home, make home, and feel at home.
The home-activist guidebook is a result of the aesthetic workshops held in Denmark in 2022, co-designed and facilitated as a participatory film workshop by artist and curator Aysha Amin, interaction designer Alexander Muchenberger, and filmmaker Anita Beikpour.
DO##HOME was created in 2024 by Alexander Muchenberger and Professor Marta Padovan-Özdemir, who also participated in the workshop as auto-ethnographer on par with the other self-identified migrant participants.
The Guidebook are free to download in Danish or English.
Diffractive Research Curatorial Manifesto
There are increasing demands for democratization of access to and involvement in research and art. Thus, a new wave of collaborations between social scientists, artists, and curators is emerging in various forms.
Based on a diffractive ethnography with self-identified migrants exploring the phenomenon of migrant homemaking collectively through the art exhibition, Connections – Danish artists from Ex-Yugoslavia at The National Gallery of Denmark, 17.09.22-19.02.23, The Danish MaHoMe team featuring Prof. Marta Padovan-Özdemir, Prof. Kristina Grünenberg and Curator/Ph.D. Tijana Mišković has collaboratively explored how the diffractive combination of curation and social science may afford engaging, emergent, and multiplying realities of migrant homemaking in contexts of divergent migration and integration politics.
This work has resulted in ‘A Manifesto for Diffractive Research Curation’, which is inspired by Karen Barad’s ethico-onto-epistemology and relational aesthetics and tested in the prototype research exhibition, On finding home in migration developed and curated by Tijana Mišković and Marta Padovan-Özdemir at the Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik, June 2024.
The manifesto includes principals of relationality, multiplication, and emergence and invites others to explore and share social science data through engaging diffractive research curation.
METHODOLOGICAL TOOLBOX
for Aesthetic Workshops
This Methodological Toolbox is designed as a kit equipped with essential tools, tips, and strategies aimed at assisting researchers and practitioners in designing and conducting collaborative aesthetic workshops. Created with accessibility in mind, this toolbox is ideal for anyone interested in exploring participatory research processes in depth.
The Toolbox is the outcome of a two-year participatory effort, initiated and led by Dr Azadeh Fatehrad (Kingston University), in collaboration with MaHoMe NGO partners, ActionAid Denmark, Baltic Art Center and a Compass Collective, and workshop facilitators from the UK, Sweden, and Denmark. An initial toolbox was collaboratively developed in 2021 and provided the basis for a series of aesthetic workshops held in each of the three countries in 2022 that sought to provide migrant co-researchers with a platform to express their understandings and experiences of home-making.
The final toolkit, produced in May 2024, is available to download.
