Animated Video-Making

A Collaborative Approach to Researching Inclusion and Support for Immigrant Seniors

Authors

• Annie Hung Simon Fraser University
• Ching-Chiu Lin Simon Fraser University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.130334

Keywords:

COVID-19 pandemic, arts-based research, community art education, collaborative artmaking, animation, immigrant seniors

Abstract

This visual essay describes how we as artist-scholars used arts-based research (ABR) to examine seniors’ experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as to consider ways of fostering social inclusion and integration through an ABR approach to public engagement with research. Central to this inquiry is how ABR, as visual storytelling that combines a narrative with digital content, allows us to capture these seniors’ complex lived experiences while serving as public-friendly research output accessible to a wide range of community members.