The ‘How Home Feels’ project invites minorities and people with minority characteristics residing in the Celtic promontories of Scotland and Cornwall in the UK, to contribute to a multi-modal project which explores their experiences of home and community-making. Participants are invited to contribute drawings, paintings, sketches, photographs, soundscapes, video clips, music, song, poetry, and short-stories alongside answers to a short series of questions which explore the home-making experience. The answers provided are then woven into narratives which accompany each piece of art.
Artistic contributions and accompanying narratives will be used to curate a visually informative and insightful art exhibition, before being archived on to this website. Additionally, multi-modal contributions and their accompanying narratives will be analysed by project leads.
Why analyze contributions?
The Scottish Parliament’s recent debates and discussions have focused a great deal on issues such as social isolation and loneliness, inclusion, participation, and representative politics. This project aims to capture intersectional, grassroots-level experiences provided by a diverse range of residents of Scotland and Cornwall. As such, this project will not only bring participants and communities closer together, but it will also generate a body of insightful evidence which can inform Scottish and Cornish decision-makers in terms of community-development, refugee resettlement, social cohesion, factors contributing to wellbeing, and the meaning that people invest in the process of homemaking.
This archive will likely also illuminate the challenges and barriers that some people may face in feeling truly at home, and as such will also prove to be informative for Scottish policymakers and community-based organisations, by helping to shape informed, respectful and productive discussion and debate.