My Hetauda Experience
Anjana Nagarkoti Anjana Nagarkoti, a youth researcher, shares her experience on how art-based learning methods can be an effective way to create social awareness among young people who want to learn and contribute to bringing change in their community. Here, she...
The role of arts-based experience and cultural vitality for social transformation: reflections on MAP work
Dr. Michelle Cannon (Guest blogger) My attendance at the online MAP Social Impact event on 30 March 2023 was a random encounter – a chance invite from a colleague who suggested I’d be interested in the project. I’m a lecturer at the UCL Knowledge Lab, UCL Institute...
Young women of Rwanda and Nepal, cycling in safe spaces, discussing, and challenging gender-based discriminatory proverbs
By MARLON LEE MONCRIEFFE Principal Investigator – Picturing the past, present, and future in the imaginations, dreams and journeys taken by young women in Nepal and Rwanda This blog provides a brief discussion on how young women in Rwanda and Nepal have taken part...
Re-spinning cultural art forms: reflections from the Culture as Change webinar
Central to the Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) research project, is the exploration of how cultural art forms can catalyse, re-frame and generate alternative ways of knowing. This post explores some of the ways in which this is occurring in the MAP project.
June 2023 Newsletter
Featuring Introducing MAP and our new projects SPOTLIGHT: Arts-based methods in action Project updates Forthcoming webinar/events Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) View the newsletter on MailChimp [embeddoc...
Facing Heaven – Dēudā Folklore, Art & Peace in Nepal
Inception Fieldtrip May 2023 Dr ST Dancey (With contributions & Translation from Dila Dat Pant) Introduction Funding from the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) via a Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) commissioned project began this April, exploring the...
Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) Culture as Change Webinar
Can Cultural Art forms contribute towards social change? Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:00 - 14:00 BST Sign up now This webinar will introduce three projects engaging directly with how cultural art forms can affect social change in young people and their wider communities. It...
Building our project team as an International Steering Group: Picturing the past, present, and future in the imaginations, dreams and journeys taken by young women in Nepal and Rwanda
MARLON LEE MONCRIEFFE, Principal Investigator, UK. NUB RAJ BHANDARI, Co-Investigator, Nepal. CHASTE UWIHOEYE, Co-Investigator, Rwanda. Introduction Our MAP team first started working together in Nepal through the 2018-19 Changing The Story funded project “Examining...
Picturing the past, present, and future in the imaginations, dreams and journeys taken by young women in Nepal and Rwanda: An introduction
MARLON LEE MONCRIEFFE, Principal Investigator. Introduction There is a synergy in the mission of both Janaki Women Awareness Society (Nepal) and Uyisenga Ni Imanzi (Rwanda) in that they exist as Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) for empowering the health,...
Allow me to return home: get more love, care, and support when I’m bleeding
Juhi Adhikari Youth Advisory Board member, Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) Participatory arts-based international research project in the UK, Rwanda, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, and Nepal. Credit: Problem Image, Shony Bhatta (anonymised), 14-year-old, Female, Nepal "Please...
Adapting the Methods of the ‘Mobile Arts for Peace’ Project for the Psychosocial Assistance of Children and Youth in Ukraine
By Olga Ovcharuk Professor of the Department of Cultural Studies and Intercultural Communications National Academy of Managerial Staff of Culture and Arts (Ukraine, Kyiv) Photo Credit: Tina Hartung, Unsplash Russia’s full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine,...
MAP Indonesia: Informing Youth Policy through Arts Based Methods
By Harla Octarra from Atma Jaya, Indonesia This short video shows the journey of how MAP young researchers collaborated with various stakeholders to gradually inform youth policy through research, creating art-forms and an audience with local government. Told from...
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