Figures of Speech – Art-based research on a child’s right to the city

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Every third child in Vienna lives with the risk of poverty an exclusion. When concerned with socio-spatial questions of socio-economically disadvantaged children, researchers, social workers and political actors tend to focus on deprived neighborhoods. This PhD-project aims to understand everyday spaces of marginalized children in a privileged district of Vienna. How do they experience, appropriate and co-create urban spaces in this setting? Talking about space is difficult (Löw 2018: Vom Raum aus die Stadt denken). In co-research settings with young and stigmatized people it is even more important to develop shared means of communication. Therefor different art-based methods have been developed for empirical practice in group and one-to-one sessions. “Figures of speech” uses 3D-Scanning and DIY-3D technology to navigate and capture individual places of importance, enabling and empowering children to position themselves in the city beyond social attributions.

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“Attention, please!” High Stakes and Emergencies: Interdisciplinary Methodologies for Creative Research on Public Space

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