Co-producing Knowledge with Remote Participatory Video Methods Using Smartphones, 2021-2022

This project was a method development grant funded by the ESRC. The aim of this project was to test, pilot and evaluate a pioneering remote participatory audio-visual method using smartphones to co-produce knowledge with displaced women in Colombia on their gendered urban inequalities. Over a period of 10 months we connected with women in Bogota and Medellin remotely on Zoom where we trained women on how to use their smartphones to join online meetings, film video material and send co-produced data to the PI to store and analyse it. At the same time women would discuss video material in weekly online workshops to-coproduce knowledge on their displacement and settling in their respective city as well as provide instructions for editing video material for a final documentary. The results of this project is co-produced knowledge on women's displacement and urban futures, impact-in-process in form of capacity, awareness, confidence and network building, and a final documentary called 'Volviendo a Vivir' that shows women's displacement experience and their resistance to violence while building urban futures for them and their families.