What is Visual Organizational Ethnography?

Speaker(s):

Stephen Linstead, University of York

Abstract:

Visual Organizational Ethnography (VOE) is a creative method that enables communities and organizations to engage with their own cultural heritage as a springboard for change. It does this through both informational and emotional impact. Common questions will be addressed: How does VOE create or contribute to change? What ideas or concepts influence VOE? Why might I want to use VOE and for what purposes? We will then step by step consider getting access; gathering material; planning and pre-production; production; editing and curating; and creative sharing. Two examples of VOE in social science research are then discussed in detail: "Black Snow", a short documentary about a mining disaster which was the UKRI Best Research Film of 2018; and "The Rhythm of the Martyrs", a multimedia photography and sound exhibition with an accompanying photographic essay about peace walls and murals in Belfast. The full guide will be available for participants.