Wording workshop – finding the language that tells about Hammarkullen.

workshop with the network Vårt Hammarkullen

images from the 2 workshop groups (photos by Emílio Brandão)

On the 18th October 2023, the Swedish CoNECT team, through Emílio Brandão, ran a workshop in Hammarkullen with the community network Vårt Hammarkullen. This workshop is part of a collaboration with this network who has shown interest to develop a self-exploration process into a grounded or rooted understandings of how the network and the community operates, organizes, and acts in different situations and processes. After following a series of their community meetings, we understood a mutual growing interest to delve into a more conceptual workshop exploring and mapping different terms and words used by the community members and connected to their actions and the associated meanings. The workshop was prepared with a few word-prompts to initiate and instigate an iterative flow in the discussions, and participants had the challenge to precisely avoid those word-prompts, to move beyond possible languages that could be experienced as objectifying or othering the narratives and subjects of the workshop’s discussions. 13 people participated in this workshop in 2 separate groups, and the work and discussions lasted a total of 1 intensive hour. The material created is being further analyzed to integrate the project’s research outcomes.

examples of flipcharts produced under the workshop (photos by Emílio Brandão)