Project Finding Home – Academics and migrants collaborating to examine the meanings of home through art-based research

Finding Home is a SSHRC-funded international research-creation collaboration bringing together academics, artists and migrants from Toronto (CA), London (UK) and Sydney (AU) to explore the complex intersection between forced migration and new place-making strategies through art and storytelling.

Forced migration refers to coerced movements of refugees and internally displaced people as well as people displaced by unjust laws, environmental disasters, famine, or development projects.

Placemaking refers to ways that citizens claim, use, and shape public space.

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Research creation is a creative and critical approach to research and artmaking combining theory, artistic practice, and experimentation.

Policy is a statement of intent by government, community groups and institutions.

Point of arrival

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Explore works by the Sydney team

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Explore works by the Toronto team

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Explore works by the London team

Project news

Upcoming Symposium: Border Trouble: Migration, Research Creation, and Policy

We are thrilled to share that we will be hosting an online symposium between April 26-29, 2021 entitled, Border Trouble: Migration, Research Creation, and…

Upcoming Workshop Series: Where Am I Home?

In January 2021, we began hosting our fourth workshop series for LGBTQ+ refugees, in partnership with the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto.