Is ‘belonging’ always a self-evident good, a feeling that those who are kept outside aspire to and that those inside should offer? But what about when it refers to a person as a property relation, such as enslaved people or wives?
When is belonging embraced and when resisted?
Can we belong without excluding others?
Examples of Bristol’s work:
What fosters a sense of belonging? Refugee voices in Germany
Read an MMB Blog, by Emily LeRoux-Rutledge discussing her photovoice project with refugees and asylum seekers in Germany. The project wanted to understand how this group felt about the country (in contrast to how the country felt about them) and what would help to foster a sense of belonging.
Becoming Dragon
Is it possible to design a ‘convincing’ puppet but wanted to discover if you can make an audience feel as though “a beast has life” even if “the being in question doesn’t exist”? Read a Brigstow blog about designing a dragon that belongs.
