Body
Mapping
Think Tank: Agents of Change
Artist & Creative Researcher: Amina Atiq
AntiRacism & SelfCare Practice:
Researching how the UK’s creative sector responded post BLM-lockdown with a focus on organisations who initiated anti-racism advisory boards. The creative research explores the relationship between leadership progression and the wellbeing of participants of lived experience of racism who joined ARGs.
Body-Mapping
■Visual technique in qualitative research that explores insights into participants’ lived experiences and imagination, which is impacted by their social and cultural context (Klein and Milner, 2019).
It is an innovative methodological technique often able to capture the imagination of research participants
■A research (data collection) tool in support of other data collection methods when the is need for visualisation of participants experiences and imaginations.
■A therapeutic tool to develop fresh insights, find new directives and explore identity and social relationships.
■An advocacy tool: body maps can be used as exhibitions for advocacy as they are able to raise awareness about political, personal, and social issues.
■A dialogue tool to build relationships between groups of people from different backgrounds, ages and disciplines to appreciate their differences and understand how life affects other people.
Six Global Majority Creatives who currently sit on a UK board gathered to explore equal opportunities and leadership progression for Global Majority Creatives with the question: How can creative research methods be useful when when approaching anti- racism work?
The second half of the workshop explored visual task of body-mapping answering the question: How lived-experience of racism affect the body* when we are in positions of creative leadership?
The workshop was supported & led by Ithalia Johnson, Artist & Inclusion Leader
Data Creative Documentation
■Transcribe Workshop: Audio Recordings
■Photos of body maps & transcription
■Self-care Testimonies
