A collaborative project between the Centre for Minorities Research and the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (2023 – 2024)
Project Lead and Lead Cornwall Researcher: Sarah Edgcumbe
Lead Scotland Researcher: Rory Cassie
This project seeks to explore experiences of homemaking, including meanings invested in “home” among minorities living in Scotland and Cornwall. Aside from narratives surrounding homemaking and community-making, participants are invited to contribute multimodal pieces which will be collated and exhibited in both Scotland and Cornwall, before being transferred to an archival website (https://howhomefeels.com/).
The objective of creating an archive is to foster the establishment of a strong network of residents, citizens, communities, community-based organisations, and researchers, through dialogue on homemaking, with an emphasis on social isolation and loneliness; feelings of belonging; social and political participation; and perceptions of safety. This archive will highlight the voices, experiences, and perceptions of minorities in a representation of the diversity within Celtic nations.
Further details of exhibition dates and archival web address will be added in due course.
Funding Support: Scotland’s Future Series, University of St Andrews.