Explore, Visualise, Co-create: Scientific Approach & Participatory Visual Methods in Social Sciences
jeu. 22 mai
|Bouaké
On May 9th at the University of Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire, project PhD Student Aline Nanko Samaké proposed to MA students a workshop on critical, creative, and inclusive approaches to social science research.
Heure et lieu
22 mai 2025, 09:00 – 11:00
Bouaké, MWHG+48M, Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire
À propos de l'événement
On Friday, May 9, Aline Nanko Samaké proposed a methodological workshop entitled “Explore, Visualise, Co-create: Scientific Approach & Participatory Visual Methods in Social Sciences.” at the the University of Bouaké, partner University of the Unruly Project. Grounded in critical and intersectional approaches, the facilitator encouraged participants to rethink research as a political process, one that can open spaces for dialogue, amplify often-silenced experiences, and disrupt normative academic routines.
The workshop aimed to strengthen the methodological, critical, and reflexive capacities of students by exploring participatory visual methods. It began with a theoretical overview of critical epistemologies, interrogating the geopolitical hierarchies of knowledge that often position Western positivist methods as dominant while marginalising other ways of knowing.
Methodological sessions introduced participants to participatory ethnographic methods such as photovoice and mental mapping, illustrated through concrete case studies conducted in the Unruly Procject in Kinshasa, and Abidjan. These examples demonstrated how visual methodologies can be mobilised…
