The UmArts Displacement and Hospitality working group brings together researchers from different disciplines exploring the relationships between host and guest in relation to migration and displacement in the north of Sweden. Several researchers across UmArts are investigating the urgent relations of hospitality and care involved in moving between countries and cities, from the physical process of moving a house, to rethinking Swedish Building standards, and the challenges of addressing issues of migration and the right to work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2022 the \u2018Moving North\u2019 project was awarded a New European Bauhaus \/ ArkDes Vision I Norr fund for developing proposals to increase social integration in the city by exploring forms of reciprocity between migrants, refugees and host communities. Moving North was a cross-sectoral team consisting of an artist, a curator, architects, a cultural geographer, architecture students and the organization Hej Framling. Based on a strong foothold in northern Sweden and with experience of both collaboration and participant-based methods in places with increased migration and relocation, Moving North critically explored how different placemaking processes can promote social participation and social sustainability. Their findings are recorded in the short film ‘Folketstad: A city of many parts’ 17:40 which address the challenges of restrictive migration and labour laws on people’s well-being at a time when the North is rapidly expanding and recruiting a new workforce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Moving North group presented their research at the Transformations 22 Conference<\/a> ‘Artistic Research in a Time of Change’ at Vetenskapens hus, Lule\u00e5 University of Technology, 17-18 November 2022; and at the European Conference in Ume\u00e5, February 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The UmArts Displacement working group meets regularly to bring together researchers from different disciplines exploring\u00a0the relationships between host and guest in relation to\u00a0migration and displacement in the north of Sweden.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":629,"template":"","categories":[61],"tags":[2,36],"people":[24,53,31,168,50,132,121,49,160,136,22,48,25],"class_list":["post-221","working_group","type-working_group","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-working-group","tag-decolonisation","tag-the-commons","people-amalia-katopodis","people-daniel-movilla-vega","people-ele-carpenter","people-juanma-gonzales-2","people-linda-sandberg","people-lisa-nyberg","people-madelein-eriksson","people-navid-ghafouri","people-nisrine-boukhari","people-richard-conway","people-robert-mull","people-sandi-hilal","people-sangram-shirke"],"acf":{"is_viewable_online":false,"repeating_events":[{"event_header_information":{"event_date":"20240906","event_title":"Wandering and Walking\u00a0methodologies","time_from":"9:00 am","time_to":"4:00 pm"},"event_short_text":" Wandering and Walking\u00a0methodologies<\/em><\/p>\n Bring your best walking boots and join us for the upcoming Displacement and Hospitality working group meeting this September. We will spend the day both inside and outside, trying out different approaches to Wandering and Walking <\/em>with presentations by:<\/p>\n Nisrine Boukhari<\/strong>\u00a0– UmArts Artist Researchers in Residence this fall, Nisrine is an artist-theorist, lives in Vienna and Stockholm. In her art-based research projects, she uses language to invoke a distinctive mind’s energy on discovering a new terrain of the imagination implicating the body as well as the mind in an immersive poetic and conceptual experience by using conceptual writing, fragmentation and deconstructed narrative. Juanma Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 artist born in Madrid that currently works and resides in Stockholm. Founder of Flat Octopus, an artist-run collective started in 2019.<\/p>\n \u201cSince the late 1970s, Permaculture has attempted to find creative solutions to the current ecological, energy and social crisis from a critical, intuitive and constructive view. With the subtitle \u201cBeauty is in the eye of the beholder\u201d, the first principle focuses on an inner exploration of oneself in order to generate a new way of understanding and interpreting our relationship with ourselves and the place where we live; what makes me feel good will also make others feel good, both people and nature. Using walking as an art production method, I created two situations in the form of journeys where participants were actively involved in an exploration to discover nature and the urban environment from a new perspective and to reflect how we relate and react to it.\u201d<\/p>\n Linda Sandstr\u00f6m\u00a0<\/strong>– social geographer,\u00a0have a PhD in Geography and work as an associate professor. Linda does research on spaces\u2019 of gendered fear of violence, intersections of race and gender, and planning for safe urban environments.<\/p>\n For more details contact UmArts research coordinator Clara West at\u00a0clara.west@umu.se<\/a>\u00a0or Working group chair\u00a0Lisa Nyberg<\/span> at Lisa.nyberg@umu.se<\/a><\/p>\n"},{"event_header_information":{"event_date":"20240913","event_title":"Open Studio with Nisrine Boukhari","time_from":"12:00 pm","time_to":"3:00 pm"},"event_short_text":" Open studio with Nisrine Boukhari- Wandering Room #01<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nHer artistic practice emerged from the study of the art walking through the mental driven movement of the body into different aspects. In recent years, she uses the drifting mind as part of her long-term research on the state of Mind-Wandering where she investigates the effects of trauma on the human psyche and the use of the artistic practice in a therapeutic trajectory on how as an artist can create visual\/textual environments where viewers experience their own perceptual processing through the art experience. Thus, Boukhari has coined the term Wanderism and announced as a State of Mind.<\/u><\/p>\n