What can we do with stories so that they become prompts to build worlds that lead to collective action? 3 years since we started the project, first as a research project and then as a global residency and intensive under the title of ‘ Doing Things with Stories’, we have learned a lot about how narrative change can prompt a new way of seeing the futures.
As we wrap up this project, I am pleased to announce that apart from the theoretical and research outputs, the training modules and the communiites of practice, we also have a wonderful showcase or artists, cultural producers, and researchers from around the world, showing us how they see, understand, and mobilise narrative change in their own contexts.
The special curation of 17 different knowledge pieces, in ‘Doing Things with Stories’ published with the artistic research platform APRIA run by ArtEZ Press and ArtEZ studium generale, capture through poetry, visual essays, critical reflections, fictions, experimental writing, and speculative design, how we can think of new forms, formats, and functions of telling stories.
Edited with Lukas Beckenbauer, Vincent Zhong and Anushka Nair, with beautiful, provocative, pedagogic and poignant inputs from global participants who show us the future of narrative change practice and the politics of hope, I am very proud to bring this phase of the project to its completion.
Special thanks to all our narrative change experts – Alexandra Juhasz , @Diana Ocholla, Elena Tejada-Herrera Bhavani Esapathi, Alejandra Ibarra Cardozo, @Mussa Khamis, Sabah Khan, Neha Singh, @Devin Hentz, and Terry Jerry A’wase for their knowledge, generosity, and expertise, as they guided and annotated these final submissions from narrative practitioners in this volume.
Read our editorial here: https://apria.artez.nl/doing-things-with-stories/ and
The Introduction to the collection here: https://apria.artez.nl/doing-things-with-stories-2/ and
A quick look at the (open access) Table of Contents:
Narrative Change Practice Story, by Eliud Akanga
Shadow Reverie, by Rini Alphonsa Joseph
DTwS, by Arjun Bali
The Blind Oracle, by Sofia Batalha
The Other Side of the River, by Can Bora
Alchemic Transmutations, by Neha Chaturvedi
The Mask That Saved My Career, by Michael Chijioke Ukwuma
Imagining a Ministry for the Future, by Bethany Copsey
A Day in the Sun, by Lekhetho David Sefate
65. Curtains, by Astrid Feringa and Lindsay Stegenga
Taking Charge of their Own Narratives, by Doel Jaikishen
The Missing Diary of the Portrait of Lisa and Ella, by Wegh James Jiryila
–, by Deborah Johnson
The Genesis, Cynthia Nwajiobi
Heal the Word, Amit Palgi
Carriers of Dil, by Anita Zehra and Shabbir Mohammed
Gauteng Maboneng, Jozi, My Home, by Nokuzola Zingithwa