The Give

Within the framework of the project EMIDEKS (Emotional Interaction design for knowledge sharing), developed by a transdisciplinary team of researchers from Roskilde University.The give presents the trajectories of three migrants with different origins (Argentina, Hungary and India) who are currently living in Denmark. Telling their personal story. The give means the act to give, and appeals to what migrants, or “people on the move”, contribute to the host societies. It visualizes the deep and personal values that these peoples bring to new communities.

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Using an exploratory and experimental methodology, based on the participants’ own reading of their narrative, the research involves a three step process. First a video-recorded interview with the migrant where the emotional journey is narrated. Then, this video is edited and key situations or moments where emotions arose are highlighted. In a second video-recorded interview the migrants observe and hear the first edited interview, to which they respond in different creative ways: improvising music with their instruments or voice, writing a poem, or drawing related to their personal trajectories. The final outcome interrelates shootings from the first and second interviews. For the final audiovisual installation, their narratives are divided in different sections (for each one of them), accordingly to distinctive moments that arose during the interviews and are spread out all across the exhibition area. The locations of these fragments can be found with the help of a printed map.