Working with audio/visual storytelling, I find alternative ways of doing and communicating research. Life is lived with all senses, why limit research to fancy words alone? I work with universities and other research institutes in exploring creative methods during research, and creating the best suited mode of communication; from film, to graphic art, exhibitions and websites.

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Immersed in politics

3-screen video installation experiencing what it is to be a political researcher, exhibited at the Brunei Gallery, London.

Capturing Living on the Other Side

A visual legal ethnographic study with migrants in Morocco and the Netherlands with Leiden University

Living Democracy

Exhibition on parliaments and people in 6 countries with SOAS University of London

Visual guide into Terra Incognita

A visual essay to explore life as a refugee in asylum houses in depopulating Italy

Daxi is born

Miffy-inspired children’s book development for early child development in China with the Beijing Design Week