The Institute for Qualitative Social Research of the Faculty of Psychology cordially invites you to the 3rd Werkstattgespräch with free admission:
Date: 14.05.2025, 13.00-16.00h, free admission
Location: Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna, Freudplatz 1, 1020 Vienna
Please refer to the screens on-site for the room number.
Participatory as well as arts-based approaches have increased in visibility and recognition especially regarding qualitative research. In my talk I will focus on the challenges that come with participatory and arts-based research when they are not treated as stand-alone approaches but integrated into a broader research design that consists of diverse methods. Such an integration raises serious epistemological and ethical questions that I will consider in my talk.
Apart from thinking about epistemological and ethical dimensions, I will focus on practical challenges. To do so I will share and discuss my own experiences as a researcher by introducing two different ways of integrating arts-based and participatory approaches that I am currently working with. Regarding their research design, the two projects integrate participatory and arts-based approaches in slightly different ways and at different stages of the research process: Both research projects focus on young people or children. One is situated in the classroom and reflects the conviction that it is necessary to integrate students into active research to critically engage with and transform the status quo of art education in schools. Students are asked to participate only after data about the status have been gathered. One is situated outside the classroom but still focuses on young people and their imagination of the future in the context of extra-curricular education. Here young people are integrated in the research process from the very start of the project.
Prof. Iris Laner is a professor of fine arts and art education at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. As a trained philosopher and artist she takes interest in issues at the intersection of aesthetics, ethics and politics. Recently, her research focuses on communal aesthetic practices and judgments, including imagining in communities.
We look forward to an interesting event!