Stories Created With Communities, Not About Them
Migration experiences deserve storytelling that honors complexity, refuses simplification, and centers dignity. Our creative work extends research into narrative forms that engage broader publics.
Our Creative Practice
We work across mediums with communities to translate research into compelling narratives.
Long-Form Writing
Essays and narrative journalism resisting the tragic migrant trope.
Writing covers:
- Personal migration journeys
- Policy analysis
- Decolonial methodologies
- Gender and migration
Animation and Visual Storytelling
Collaborative animation with communities visualizing migration experiences.
We create:
- Animated documentaries
- Explainer videos
- Visual advocacy tools
- Educational content
Interactive Installations
Art-based public engagement on migration themes.
Installations include:
- Linguistic identity shifts
- Aalam-e-Barzakh liminality
- Material culture of displacement
- Public engagement events
Documentary Photography
Visual documentation maintaining dignity and consent.
Our practice:
- Ongoing consent
- Community image control
- Context in captions
- Collaborative photo projects
Community-Authored Narratives
Platforms for migrants to author their own stories.
We facilitate:
- Writing workshops
- Digital storytelling
- Zine creation
- Community publications
Featured Work
Project DIRAR: Healing Circles
A comunity-partnered intervention working with young men in Punjab to address trafficking vulnerability through trauma-informed healing circles.
Read more →Coastal Communities & Climate
Participatory research conducted alongside coastal fisherwomen in Karachi exploring how climate-induced displacement reshapes livelihoods.
Read more →Aalam-e-Barzakh Installation
An interdisciplinary art-research installation exploring the "in-between" spaces migrants inhabit — neither here nor there.
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