On Thursday, May 29 from 12 to 1:30PM, Drs. Clara Juando-Prats, Ruth Rodney, Janet Parsons, and Denise Gastaldo will present CQ’s latest seminar.
This is a hybrid (online and in-person) session. Register here. If you are attending in person, please select the “in-person” ticket option. If you are attending online, please select the “online” ticket option.
Title: N(ArT)URE as a Relational Approach to Research-Creation
Abstract: 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 University of Toronto and Lakehead University.
Speakers:
Clara Juando- Prats, PhD, is a mom, a critical health scholar, and an interdisciplinary researcher living and working in the traditional land of the Fort William First Nation, at the Lakehead University’s School of Nursing. Her work focuses on child and youth health equity using creativity, post-human theory, and our connections with nature.
Ruth Rodney, RN, PhD is a mother, registered nurse, an Associate Professor at York University’s School of Nursing, and the Associate Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute at York University. Ruth works towards disrupting/dismantling and then reimagining systems that are more equitable; her research focuses on co-creating and documenting knowledge with communities on healthy relationship development, violence prevention, and health promotion.
Janet Parsons, PhD likes to play around intersections – not in the traffic, but where art, science and the social meet. As an Associate Professor at University of Toronto’s Department of Occupational Science & Occupa-tional Therapy, she feels lucky to work with colleagues and students who like to research, play and practice.
Denise Gastaldo, RN, PhD is a methodologist, researcher, educator, and mentor who works as an associate professor at the Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and at the Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Her methodological scholarship focuses on participatory qualitative health research and her empirical scholarship on structural issues and power relations in the field of health.
N(ArT)URE Team Members
Chantelle King
Kathryn Hodwitz
Ilene Sova
Star Nahwegahbo
Noelia Marziali
Hemangi Shroff
Andrea Thompson
Maureen Da Silva
N(ArT)URE Community Partners
Point in Time Centre for Children, Youth & Parent
Abiona Centre for Infant and Mental Health
SACHA Sexual Assault Centre Hamilton Area
Jessie’s The June Callwood Centre for Young Women
Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion
