Thread by @heavencrawley

Looking forward to roundtable discussion led by @lhammondsoas who is leading @migration_team on the relationship between the arts and social sciences in forced migration research #IASFM17

Beautiful art produced by refugees raises questions about the message that is being conveyed, by whom and with what purpose #IASFM17

We need to have deeper collaborations to better understand power relations, to valorise culture and language and beauty says @nassimmajidi not just a matter of adding an artist into the mix but about doing our work differently #IASFM17

Visual representations of conflict and forced migration - including miniatures - are easily understandable across cultures, languages and ages says @nassimmajidi #IASFM17

So good to have fascinating artists working across a range of media on this panel, provides a rare opportunity ti better understand the relationship between social sciences and the arts in the co-production - ideally - of knowledge #IASFM17

“Narratives of suffering and grief are a process not an end product”, words can’t capture this process, the politics of emotions requires a different kind of relatability #IASFM17

Concept of ‘voice’ needs to be challenged and unpacked. Silences are also a way of speaking or communicating the pain and horror of forced migration. Creativity is more than outputs, it’s about the processes and relationships with which the creative process is associated #IASFM17

Arts have huge potential to develop collaborations that wouldn’t otherwise happen, to create and shape new voices and forms of communication, to mobilise new alliances to challenge dominant ways of seeing @migration_team #IASFM17

In my experience it is the creative process that matters, not the output, albeit that both may speak to different audiences and resonate in different ways #IASFM17