VISUAL EXCHANGE

Visual Exchange strengthens the capacities, agency, and autonomy of underserved communities and groups through dialogue, participatory and creative methods, action-research, training, and efforts to reduce unequal access to knowledge. We design and deliver structured projects combining transmission, capacity building, and locally grounded innovation in health, culture, social development, and sustainability. We also support NGOs and institutions through field-grounded approaches that bring community perspectives into decision-making and strengthen program relevance and accountability.

Our approach of Participatory Creative Methods such as Participatory Video, Photovoice, Cellphilm and Participatory Digital Storytelling mixed with other art-based practices can be considered as a form of mediated process of research and empowerment. It uses a set of visual and sensorial methods, participatory techniques and creative actions to provide a caring and a dialogue zone in between individuals or groups. It can bring to light underlying explanations of general outcomes and enables individuals, groups, communities or organizations to become more resilient through the exploration of their own resources, experiences and representations. It enables them to co-create a common ground and share solutions, and that can be crystallized in co-created media object which extends the dialogue loop with larger audience. This leads for stakeholders to better know their fields, better understand each other’s needs and views and thus stimulate new path of dialogue and a dynamic of change that emanates from within.