Projects
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Homelessness: Solutions from Lived Experience through Arts-Informed ResearchThis collaborative project is comprised of eight arts-informed, community-based, participatory action research projects around homelessness in Toronto. Composed of peer researchers (people with lived experiences of homelessness), social service agency staff, artists and academics, this initiative hosted a joint art exhibit and launched a policy report to raise awareness around the issues affecting people who are homeless with diverse identities and experiences and to push for the recommendations shared by the projects involved. |
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Coming Together: Homeless Women, Housing, and Social Supportis a community-based participatory research project using staged photography (tableau vivants), exploring how women and transwomen who are homeless/marginally housed build support networks with each other to survive. Principal Investigator: Izumi Sakamoto |
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Heuristics of Art Practices for Social Workexamines how expressive and critical functions of arts can expand social work’s knowledge base. It focuses on the representation of public space, the invisible space of Aboriginal-non Aboriginal relations, and derelict spaces in the city. Principal Investigator: Adrienne Chambon |
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Social Assistance in the New Economytranslates interviews and findings with social assistance recipients into a play that educates and generates community dialogue on welfare, disadvantage and social exclusion through political theatre as a tool for “performing research.” Principal Investigator: Ernie Lightman |