In South Africa, the team designed an artistic intervention to translate their research findings, on the Ethiopia-South Africa migration corridor, into an art piece. The intervention engaged migrants from various countries and South African nationals. The participants include young people from different social backgrounds, professional artists, academics and NGO workers to co-create a musical drama piece that engages the local audience in a post-performance discussion on issues raised about inequalities and human interaction issues encountered by migrants in Cape Town and other parts of South Africa.
MIDEQ Hub Co-Investigator at the University of Cape Town, Dr Faisal Garba, Anele Sturrman and Chanté Matthews reflect on their experiences collaborating with artists in MIDEQ to employ artistic approaches to migration research.
The Creative Arts Intervention project is one of the MIDEQ Hub’s Flexible funding work on translating academic research impact in languages that extend academic research and its reach beyond the academy.
Their reflection summarises what they learned from this collaboration with creative arts researchers and how that has changed the way they will conduct research and community engagement in future.
