Main Beneficiaries
Over the course of three to four workshops in Madrid, Glasgow, and Johannesburg, a total of 30 individuals from diverse nationalities contributed their voices and artworks. Each work becomes a bridge, connecting memory, identity, and belonging, while challenging the dehumanizing narratives that frequently dominate public discourse.
This eBook is designed for a wide range audience. By presenting first-hand artistic narratives by displaced people, it aims to foster understanding and empathy, challenge stereotypes, and provide nuanced insights into the realities of migration. Thus, it serves as a resource for those involved in designing policies, programs, or educational initiatives, offering evidence-based perspectives that highlight the voices and experiences of displaced communities.
Social Impact
The project challenges dehumanized and stereotypical portrayals of displaced people by centering their first-hand narratives. Participants reclaim their stories by speaking in the first person, becoming co-creators of knowledge rather than passive subjects.
Creative workshops functioned as both artistic and safe spaces, fostering trust, dialogue, and peer support while enabling participants to reflect on migration, home, and belonging. By amplifying displaced people’s perspectives, the project dignifies their experiences, counters marginalization, and promotes broader understanding of migration, while supporting participants’ emotional well-being.
The project also strengthens collaboration between universities and non-academic partners, demonstrating how participatory art and storytelling can empower displaced people, amplify marginalized voices, and foster more inclusive societies.
Value of our project:
- Deepen intersectoral networks.
- Enhance narrative and transmedia platforms as strategic means of communication and convey alternative viewpoints
- Establish knowledge co-creating teams involving associated academic and non-academic partners from three different countries
- Address global problems, such as the forced displacement of people, as an international issue
- Boost civic engagement beyond national borders
- Bringing to light the importance of universities' commitment and responsibility to collaborate with non-academic organizations
