CQ Seminar: N(ArT)URE as a Relational Approach to Research-Creation (hybrid)- May 29, 2025

Session Description

N(ArT)URE is a politically aware and ethically responsible research-creation project co-created with community partners and health researchers. Rooted in anti-oppressive critical research practices and framed in post-human theory, N(ArT)URE fosters spaces of safety, play, exploration, connections with the land, and knowledge production as a methodology for inclusion and inquiry. N(ArT)URE is a response to the need to visualize ways of being, thinking, and doing research; it prioritizes the needs of people with experiences of socio-economic exclusion and centers the relations between humans and non-human beings through a non-extractivist non-exclusionary approach. N(ArT)URE as a methodology attends to the realities of individuals and communities who are not usually engaged in research through knowledge co-creation and creative expression that nurtures the body, the mind, and the relations between the natural world and humans.

In this session, we invite you into a discussion about the key elements of N(ArT)URE, the theory and practice behind it, its design, implementation, and analysis, showcasing two research-creation projects as examples of the co-creative process. This discussion will be co-presented at the Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research, University of Toronto and Lakehead University.

Speakers: Drs. Clara Juando-Prats, Ruth Rodney, Janet Parsons, and Denise Gastaldo.

Host: Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research.

This is a hybrid session (online and in-person). If you are attending in person, please select the “in-person” ticket option. If you are attending online, please select the “online” ticket option.