Through multidisciplinary co-creation with a remote, rural, coastal community, this project aims to place spirituality at the center of life, capturing insights, understanding and knowledge of spirituality (‘thin space’) and its benefits to individuals, heritage, community, culture and landscape.
Research
- Introduction
- Context
- Research Questions
- Methods
- Contribution to the field
- Publications and Dissemination
- Analysis & Key Findings
Outputs
- Thin Spaces book
- Poster
- Spontaneous essay
Email
Methods
Thin Space combines methods from oral history, visual communication, and participatory research. Central to the project is radical listening: an approach that values attentive, empathetic engagement and recognises knowledge as something created through relationships rather than extracted from participants.
Our methods include:
- Oral history interviews and conversations
- Collaborative drawing and visual storytelling
- Live scribing and notation
- Utterance mapping
- Typography and graphic design as forms of interpretation
- Co-created workshops and exhibitions
- “Returning the stories” — sharing creative outputs back with participants and communities
Rather than treating participants as sources of data, we work collaboratively to create visual and narrative representations that reflect shared experiences, memories, and aspirations.