Graphic summaries
Our project recognizes that cities have dominant stories about their history and identity. These stories circulate in the news, via official documents and through politicians speeches. Counter-narratives tell a different story about who has been left out and why. One of our first priorities with Change Stories was to document both the dominant and counter-narratives in our case study cities. Curated by Magdalena Haakenstad and Lydia Collins (illustrations), these graphic summaries show how local academics and community-based partners have documented the narratives of each city, based on their local areas of focus (food, care, housing).
Read more: Graphic Summary Belfast, Graphic Summary Belo Horizonte, and Graphic Summary Bogotá . Summaries are currently available in English and forthcoming in Spanish and Portuguese.
Change Stories in the Global South
“Telling stories is seducing the world” says Omar Rincón, Associate Professor at the Universidad de los Andes Center for Studies in Journalism. The Global South is represented in two out of the three case study cities in Change Stories, Bogotá and Belo Horizonte. Stories are being used to explore and tell a full account of sustainable and equitable change in two Latin American settings. In this video, partners discuss what the project means from a Global South perspective.
Subtitles for this video are available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Residential knowledge exchange event
In March 2024 the Change Stories partners and advisory group members convened for a week in Bogotá, Colombia to exchange knowledge and co-develop our research approach. UW participant Sarah Randall wrote a daily post across the week. Read her summaries of Day 1 including a site visit to El Castillo, Day 2 with a public event at University of the Andes, Day 3 with a site visit to Ciudad Bolivar, and Day 4.
Bogotá academic partners at the University of the Andes published a story about the event: Change Stories: a meeting point between the academic community and civil society (available here).
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Publications
Our first paper describes how we developed a multi-country transdisciplinary research project. Parallel to literature review, we used participatory and social research methods to identify case study cities for our primary study and to inform our study design. Read more.
Pineo H, Álvarez Rivadulla MJ, Borde E et al. Mobilizing knowledge about urban change for equity and sustainability: developing ‘Change Stories’, a multi-country transdisciplinary study [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. Wellcome Open Res 2024, 9:218 (https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.21180.1)