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Design For Care In The Peripheries: Arts-Based Research As An Empowering Process With Communities, Satu Miettinen, Melanie Sarantou, Essi Kuure Jun 2019

Design For Care In The Peripheries: Arts-Based Research As An Empowering Process With Communities, Satu Miettinen, Melanie Sarantou, Essi Kuure

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Arts-based research (ABR), its potential for participation and collaboration, can create insights and understanding of complex societal structures. It can also be used as an approach to find mindful solutions with peripheral communities. The paper argues that ABR, supported by practical collaborative processes, can offer suitable approaches to design for care by including local stakeholders in community-led development processes. This paper presents a Life Story Mandala tool that enables researchers and art and design practitioners to manage complex societal development processes in a globalised world (Bonsiepe 2006). The tool was developed during two global research cycles in South Australia and …