Project Re•Vision and REDLAB (Re-Visioning Differences Media Arts Laboratory), located at University of Guelph, explore ways in which arts-informed research can create opportunities for communities marginalized by misconceptions. Project Re•Vision is a mobile multi-media lab that uses arts-based methods to dismantle stereotypical understandings of disability and difference that can create barriers
to healthcare, education, and inclusion in society. At the heart of Project Re•Vision are our digital storytelling workshops, where participants create 2 to 3 minute-long videos that pair audio recordings of personal narratives with visuals (photographs, short videos, artwork, and more.) Our goal is to explore experiences of how disability or bodily difference are perceived in the healthcare and educational systems, with an overall aim of improving accommodation and advancing inclusion. To date, we have generated an impressive archive of over 70 digital stories. Our project is situated, intentionally, on the edge of the academy and the arts, of knowledge production and activism, as well as of disability studies and health care research and practice. Through collaborative practice and horizontal decision-making, the project aims to challenge rigid boundaries between researcher/participant; teacher/student; health provider/patient, to together reimagine disability and difference.
