Vibrioscope
Participatory visual research at the intersection of environmental health, scientific research, and community participation
Vibrioscope is a participatory research and public engagement project exploring the relationship between environmental health, microbial ecologies, and climate emergency through visual and community-based methodologies.
Developed in collaboration with researchers, educators, and local communities, the project uses photography, microscopy, and co-creative image-making as tools for inquiry, dialogue, and knowledge exchange. By making invisible microbial worlds visible, Vibrioscope creates spaces where scientific research, environmental awareness, and community participation intersect.
Visual methodologies are used here to support public understanding of environmental challenges, initiate dialogue across disciplines, and expand participation in climate-related and ecological questions.
Project affiliated with the Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University. 2023-2026.
Funded by Formas, Sweden.
Voices from the Margin
Youth participation, representation, and civic voice in spatially segregated urban contexts
Voices from the Margin is an artist-led participatory visual research project developed with young people from highly segregated Stockholm neighbourhoods often framed as sites of social risk and policy failure. The project explores representation, belonging, and civic participation through collaborative image-making.
Rather than documenting communities from the outside, photography became a participatory research process through which participants shaped how their experiences, concerns, and public narratives were represented.
The project explores how young people often framed as a social problem can be recognised as civic actors shaping public discourse and collective futures.
Project affiliated with the Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. 2018-2020.
Dissemination output
We Watch, We Think. The film.
A documentary film developed as part of the project’s public dissemination strategy, extending participants’ reflections on representation, resilience, and civic participation to broader audiences.
Join Sara, Hafsa, and Suhur in their quest to speak up. By participating in an art workshop focused on enhancing social resilience through visual exploration, these three teenagers will encourage friends to create a collective participatory performance for their community. Through vibrant reflections, viewers will embark on an inspiring journey through Stockholm's suburbs –from resilience to resistance. This choral story underscores the importance of citizen narratives in shaping a more democratic, pluralistic, and inclusive urban imaginary.
40 min l Swedish and English (English subtitles).
For pedagogical uses request access to the full film through the contact form.
www.youth4societalresilience.org
Funded by Formas, Sweden.
Benzo Body
Artist-led visual research on dependency, lived experience, and the politics of care
Benzo Body is a research-based visual project examining the embodied, social, and political dimensions of long-term benzodiazepine use and withdrawal.
Through photography and participatory inquiry, the project explores how pharmaceutical dependency shapes everyday life, identity, vulnerability, and experiences of care. It brings attention to forms of suffering that often remain invisible within dominant medical narratives, creating space for reflection, dialogue, and public awareness.
By combining visual practice with socially engaged research methodologies, Benzo Body investigates how image-based approaches can contribute to conversations around health, care ethics, and the lived realities of medical dependency.
Selected recognition:
2021#ArtsAgainsCAwardsovid , Special Mention to the best project developed in the public domain for Benzos: where do you store them?
2017 IPA Awards - Spain Edition, Award in Deeper Perspective for Benzos, Lucie Foundation.
Funded by the Culture Ministry - Catalan Government, Spain. 2017-present.