Title | Changing the Lens Film as Action Research and Therapeutic Planning Practice |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2014 |
Authors | Sandercock, L, Attili, G |
Journal | Journal of Planning Education and Research |
Volume | 34 |
Pagination | 19–29 |
Keywords | action research, collaborative film making, colonization, digital ethnography, film and community engagement, healing and reconciliation, therapeutic planning, transformative planning |
Abstract | This paper discusses an action research project in which the making and screening of a film was conceived as a catalyst for social change in a deeply divided community. The context is the history of segregation of Indigenous peoples and settlers in Canada. Is there a decolonizing role for planning, beginning with the work of healing and reconciliation? And, is there a role for film as a methodological tool in such a process? Our findings suggest a very necessary role for therapeutic planning, albeit with caveats; and, that film can be an effective catalyst for creating this therapeutic space. |
DOI | 10.1177/0739456X13516499 |