Working with Cultural Data: A Creative Approach
Explore the journey from data analysis to artistic creation. Join our course to innovate research in migration studies through interdisciplinary approaches.
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3 weeks
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10 hours
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Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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On this three-week course, you’ll explore the compelling intersection between creative arts and migration studies, uncovering new perspectives on global migration patterns.
With the guidance of the University of Glasgow, you’ll engage with pioneering research and artistic methodologies that illuminate the multifaceted experiences of migrants.
This course aims to emphasise the critical role of creativity in research, allowing you to approach migration studies from a unique angle.
You’ll engage with various artistic mediums such as poetry and visual arts to enhance your ability to communicate research findings in accessible and emotionally resonant ways.
You’ll learn to view data through a creative lens, unlocking the potential to tell compelling stories and highlight diverse perspectives. This segment encourages you to think outside the box and apply innovative thinking to data interpretation, preparing you for the creative challenge of turning data into art.
This final segment consolidates your learning, offering a structured pathway to apply the course’s teachings to your research projects. Embrace the challenge of transforming data into art, enriching your research with creativity and interdisciplinary innovation.
By the end of this course section, you’ll be armed with questions and strategies to guide your approach to turning data and experiences into art.
Welcome to the course! In this section, you will find out more about the educators and the content of week 1.
For efficiency reasons, data is often presented as tables, graphs or charts. What happens in this disconnection between the human forms that provide the information, and the non-human forms in which information is treated as data?
In this section, we will look at different types of data and the way they get valued in society.
In this section, we will be looking at ways to 'warm up' cold data, to go from warm, to cold and back to warm data.
Warming up data can feel uncomfortable. In this section, we will be looking at the causes of the discomfort and we will critically assess our reactions to the process.
In this section, we will look at some examples from the UNESCO RIELA work, so see how arts and language can help to warm up data.
Cultural data can be personal, we need to make sure we care for it and the people who have provided it appropriately. In this section, we will be looking at safeguarding, ethics and the permaculture approach to help you do that.
Colonial practices, both present and past, have and continue to have an impact on large parts of the world. How can we successfully navigate these legacies and continuing structures?
Warm cultural data can often be harder to work with that 'cold' data, because of its intangible nature. Here we will discuss some concrete strategies you can try yourselves.
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