In Other Words. Opening Research to Creative Practices

The Art of Knowledge: The Evolving Landscape of Creative Restitution

I. Graphic stories and comic strips 

Scientists in the gutter: How and why we should write social science in comics form

On Doing Ethnography and Making Comics 

Drawing On Memories: Translating Mexican Intergenerational Storytelling through Graphic Ethnography 

“La linea dell’orizzonte”: My (first) experience of sociology through comics

 Sociology in comics: an educational experiment

 Creative Popularization of a Sociological Study on Naturism Through Comic Art

 

II. From documentary literature to fiction 

Literature and Social Sciences: Shifting Boundaries

Fictional Writing on Sociological Research: Reflections on Damnatio Memoriae

An imaginary letter to tell a real story: “Ze hayah be-leil Shabbat”

Black Skin, White Scratches: An Autoethnography of Racism 

Fiction in the service of history: Notes on the Asian Reich, a counterfactual narrative 

Counterfactual History and Archival Research on Slavery and Revolution: A Workshop Experience

 

III. Audiovisual writing 

Un/Disciplining the Frame: Audiovisual Writing and Social Grounds

The fiction of sciences: Bronx Barbès, a feature film 

“Of sisters and brothers:” A multi-modal approach to unpacking the emotional geographies of Roma migrants 

Drawing, Narrating, Representing Jewish Migration through Trieste (1903-1945)

Opening interstices: Audiovisual Narratives as a Transformative Method for Urban Research/Studies

 

IV. Sound and music 

Research Through Sound: Exploring Sound and Oral Narratives in Research Restitution

Playing maps on a piano: 40,000 kilometers around the World 

“Bretez” and the archaeology of the soundscape: sensory historical restitution (latest developments) 

Researchers as storytellers. When scholars become podcasters 

Inhabiting the Landscape: A sound experience podcast

 

V. Dance and Performative Arts 

Embodied Forms: Dance and Performative Arts

Dancing philosophy: The story of how body and mind regained each other 

Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Performance as Research Praxis: The Process of Mapping the Rio

“It’s smoother when some characters say it, and not me”: Talking about one’s research from the stage

“It wasn’t really a theatrical performance”: A brief history of social sciences putting on their show

 

VI. Exhibitions

From the Museum as Classroom to the Classroom as Museum

Muzungu as a tool of art: a case before the icc 

A Community in Conversation: Transforming Difficult Experiences into Virtual Memorials 

The R.E.V. photographic exhibition as a mode of dissemination for sociological research 

A Museum For Me: New Modes of Creating and Sharing Knowledge with Community Groups 

“Siamo o non siamo”—A Jewish Childhood in Alexandria: Mini-museum // a museum for me

 

VII. Cartographies 

C-Artographies: How art reimagines cartography, and viceversa

Feeling the world through geopoetry 

Mapping Enforced Disappearance and Transforming Bonds 

Mapping Jewish History and Present in Graz and Thessaloniki: Research-based Teaching through Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange 

Mapping Memory: Cartographies of the Shoah, Conflict, and Resistance

 

IX. Games 

Goals, Ecosystems, Playground: Uses of Gameplay for Knowledge

Snakes and Ladders: Introducing the Board Game approach to Essay writing in Art and Design (and Beyond) 

Lausanne 1830: Histoires de Registres: Balancing Education and Entertainment in a Video Game 

Playful Mediation: My Research in 180 Bricks

 

Selective Bibliography

Short biographies of authors