Visual Storytelling for Knowledge Translation: A Study on BRAC’s Novel Health Loans in Protecting the Poor Against Health and Asset Vulnerability In Bangladesh

Knowledge Translation (KT) is a dynamic and iterative process that includes synthesizing, disseminating, exchanging, and ethically sound application of knowledge to improve health and strengthen the health care system. It facilitates sharing the information generated through research outcomes with the public, the policymakers, or others for further scaling up or continuation of the interventions. Literature suggests a substantial gap exists in communicating with the decision-makers. BRAC JPGSPH produced a documentary/video that iterates how BRAC’s revised medical treatment loan program (MTL+) works with its microcredit clients and modalities. After reviewing all possible options for communication, the video was chosen as the best knowledge translation tool. The video creation and dissemination process are comprised of four phases: pre-production, production, post-production, and exhibition. The video production team reviewed documents and articles and conducted multiple interviews before developing the script. Later, a series of interviews were taken with the beneficiaries who receive medical treatment loans, mid-level, senior managers at BRAC, and researchers. After the production, the director, with a professional editor, edited the video. Over three hours of footage was viewed and ultimately compiled into a six-minute-long video documentary. The audience for the video was more expansive than narrow; from potential beneficiaries to policymakers and every group of stakeholders in between, the video was well-understood. The new MTL+ was integrated into the main program and would be scaled up soon.

Assessing Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs of Nurses About LGBTQ Older Adults Using a Documentary Video

Statistics reveal that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) older adults experience health disparities and barriers to accessing healthcare because of discrimination and fear of disclosing sexual orientation. Nurses receive limited education regarding care for LGBTQ older adults. This study exposed nurses to the documentary, Gen Silent, which details LGBTQ older adult experiences. The objective of the study was to increase participants’ understanding of LGBTQ health disparities. A one-group pre-/post-test design was conducted to test the effect of the documentary on knowledge and attitudes about LGBTQ health. A total of 379 nurses participated in the study. A questionnaire including a 16-item standardized scale and an open-ended question asking how participants would change their practice was administered before and after the intervention. Findings revealed statistically significant increases in LGBTQ knowledge and inclusive attitudes. This research supports the use of a documentary as an educational method related to LGBTQ older adults.

Negative Capability: Documentary and Political Withdrawal

<p>This thesis thinks with, alongside, and against several theories of political withdrawal that have emerged during the past three decades as they have been taken up by artists working with documentary video. Political withdrawal here refers to a set of tactics that position themselves in opposition to existing models of belonging, civic engagement, and contestation. The context in which this study takes place is one in which qualifying for citizenship in the liberal western state increasingly requires one remain transparent, docile, and willing to acquiesce to whatever demands for information the state may make. In response to these conditions, the theories and artworks examined in this thesis all propose arguments in favour of anonymity, opacity, and indeterminacy. Situating itself, sometimes uncomfortably, within the archives of feminist, queer, and anarchist thought, this thesis engages with selected video works by Martha Rosler, Bernadette Corporation, Hito Steyerl, and Zach Blas in order to understand the ways in which withdrawal may constitute a generative framework for enabling meaningful social change. These video works are here described as documentary, but not in the conventional sense that they are objective or transparent attempts to capture or record actual fact. Rather the term is understood as a historically pedagogical genre — notably deployed in the service of both oppressive regimes and oppositional movements — that provides a means through which to engage with, and creatively reimagine, political languages. The artists in this study take a critical approach to troubling times. Suspending the truth claims historically associated with documentary, they offer a range of ways to think through how complaint might be articulated and commitment sustained.</p>

Negative Capability: Documentary and Political Withdrawal

<p>This thesis thinks with, alongside, and against several theories of political withdrawal that have emerged during the past three decades as they have been taken up by artists working with documentary video. Political withdrawal here refers to a set of tactics that position themselves in opposition to existing models of belonging, civic engagement, and contestation. The context in which this study takes place is one in which qualifying for citizenship in the liberal western state increasingly requires one remain transparent, docile, and willing to acquiesce to whatever demands for information the state may make. In response to these conditions, the theories and artworks examined in this thesis all propose arguments in favour of anonymity, opacity, and indeterminacy. Situating itself, sometimes uncomfortably, within the archives of feminist, queer, and anarchist thought, this thesis engages with selected video works by Martha Rosler, Bernadette Corporation, Hito Steyerl, and Zach Blas in order to understand the ways in which withdrawal may constitute a generative framework for enabling meaningful social change. These video works are here described as documentary, but not in the conventional sense that they are objective or transparent attempts to capture or record actual fact. Rather the term is understood as a historically pedagogical genre — notably deployed in the service of both oppressive regimes and oppositional movements — that provides a means through which to engage with, and creatively reimagine, political languages. The artists in this study take a critical approach to troubling times. Suspending the truth claims historically associated with documentary, they offer a range of ways to think through how complaint might be articulated and commitment sustained.</p>

Labour in a Single Shot

This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and videomaker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global proportions. They travelled to fifteen cities around the world to conduct workshops inspired by cinema history’s first film, Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, shot in 1895 by the Lumière brothers in France. While the workshop videos are in colour and the camera was not required to remain static, Ehmann and Farocki’s students were tasked with honouring the original Lumière film’s basic parameters of theme and style. The fascinating result is a collection of more than 550 short videos that have appeared in international exhibitions and on an open-access website, offering the widest possible audience the opportunity to ponder contemporary labour in multiple contexts around the world.

La enseñanza de endemismos mexicanos a través de video documental e infografía, un ejemplo de Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos

En este proyecto se describe la experiencia durante la aplicación de 2 Tecnologías de la Información: el video documental y la infografía, como medios para adquirir aprendizajes significativos sobre el tema: Endemismos mexicanos: causas, distribución e importancia. Este tema pertenece al programa de Biología IV del bachillerato de la UNAM. Las TIC fueron desarrolladas por los alumnos de quinto año de bachillerato de dos grupos diferentes. La finalidad de este trabajo es que los alumnos emplearán diversas herramientas colaborativas como Google Docs para realizar un proyecto cuyo producto fuera un video documental y una infografía, sobre el tema antes señalado. Los resultados de ambos trabajos aportan evidencias de aprendizaje colaborativo, siendo Google Docs una herramienta útil para el trabajo colaborativo asíncrono. Finalmente, este trabajo aporta dos opciones de productos que el docente puede emplear para desarrollar un tema. Siendo el video y la infografía un producto más significativo para construir el pensamiento crítico, valores y cambios de actitudes. This project describes the experience during the application of two information technologies: video documentaries and infographics, as a means to acquire significant learning on the topic: Mexican endemisms: causes, distribution and importance. This topic belongs to the Biology IV program of the UNAM high school. The ICT were developed by fifth year high school students from two different groups. The purpose of this work is that students will use various collaborative tools such as Google Docs to carry out a project whose product was a documentary video and an infographic on the topic mentioned above. The results of both projects provide evidence of collaborative learning, being Google Docs a useful tool for asynchronous collaborative work. Finally, this work provides two options of products that the teacher can use to develop a topic. Video and infographics being a more significant product to build critical thinking, values and attitude changes.

Embodied artifacts: memory, nostalgia and mid-century objects.

"The aim of this paper and its accompanying documentary video is to contemplate the value that we place on objects from the past, specifically the mid-century period from 1946 to 1964. This value, I will argue, comes from a combination of subjective, sensorial contemplation, nostalgic yearning, and a reaction to the spatial fragmentation and temporal acceleration of contemporary North American life. In order to bridge the gap between academic discourse and personal narrative, I will apply the theories on memory by Pierre Nora and Andreas Huyssen and on nostalgia by Svetlana Boym to the conversations in the video component of my project about the current fascination with mid-century objects. While the style of the 1950's and 60's could simply be an aesthetic trend, moving to other periods in a few years, perhaps the narratives that surround the mid-century period speak to busy, young people today because of a deeper cultural yearning for postwar ideals like quality and domesticity."--Introduction.

Embodied artifacts: memory, nostalgia and mid-century objects.

"The aim of this paper and its accompanying documentary video is to contemplate the value that we place on objects from the past, specifically the mid-century period from 1946 to 1964. This value, I will argue, comes from a combination of subjective, sensorial contemplation, nostalgic yearning, and a reaction to the spatial fragmentation and temporal acceleration of contemporary North American life. In order to bridge the gap between academic discourse and personal narrative, I will apply the theories on memory by Pierre Nora and Andreas Huyssen and on nostalgia by Svetlana Boym to the conversations in the video component of my project about the current fascination with mid-century objects. While the style of the 1950's and 60's could simply be an aesthetic trend, moving to other periods in a few years, perhaps the narratives that surround the mid-century period speak to busy, young people today because of a deeper cultural yearning for postwar ideals like quality and domesticity."--Introduction.

TAHAP PEMBERDAYAAN KAMPUNG WISATA BERBASIS POTENSI DAN KEARIFAN LOKAL

<p><em>Tourism sector has grown to be the superior one with the fastest growth in the world and has been a locomotive of economic growth. Setabelan, Surakarta attempts to develop a culture and locality-based tourism village. This action research aims to analyze the process of empowering villagers conducted in participative manner by involving stakeholders with Friedman’s community empowerment theory. The result of research shows that community empowering process was conducted through the stage of producing citizens’ knowledge on village’s history, potency, need, and problem. The result of knowledge production was used as the data to design workshop to citizens through Focus Group Discussion (FGD) mechanism. A series of workshops have been implemented because people have interest in packaging the village’s cultural potency as tourist attraction. Citizens’ cultural potency was packaged in the forms of village profile book, village diary, documentary video, village sketch, Open Street Map (OSM) and infographic published through website and social media in order to be accessible broadly. Thus, empowering village through the potency owned in cultural context will provide knowledge, belief, understanding, and custom or habit or ethics guiding human behavior in living within its community. </em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords: Empowerment, Tourism Village, Culture and Locality</em></strong><em></em></p><p align="left"> </p><h1>Abstrak</h1><p>Sektor pariwisata telah tumbuh menjadi sektor unggulan dengan pertumbuhan tersepat di dunia dan menjadi lokomotif pertumbuhan ekonomi. Setabelan, Surakarta berupaya mengembangkan kampung wisata berbasis budaya dan lokalitas. Action research ini bertujuan untuk menganalisa proses pemberdayaan warga kampung yang dilakukan secara partisipatif dan melibatkan para <em>stakeholders</em> dengan teori pemberdayaan masyarakat dari Friedman. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa proses pemberdayaan masyarakat dilakukan melalui tahap produksi pengetahuan warga tentang sejarah, potensi, kebutuhan dan problem kampung. Hasil produksi pengetahuan digunakan sebagai data untuk merancang workshop bagi warga melalui mekanisme <em>Focus Group Discussion</em> (FGD). Rangkaian workshop terlaksana karena masyarakat punya kepentingan untuk mengemas potensi budaya kampung sebagai daya tarik wisata. Potensi budaya warga dikemas dalam bentuk buku profil kampung, <em>diary</em> kampung, video dokumenter, sketsa kampung, peta <em>Open Street Map</em> (OSM) maupun infografis dipublikasikan melalui <em>website</em> dan media sosial agar dapat diakses secara luas. Dengan demikian memberdayakan kampung melalui potensi yang dimiliki dalam konteks budaya akan memberi bentuk pengetahuan, keyakinan, pemahaman serta adat kebiasaan atau etika yang menuntun perilaku manusia dalam kehidupan di dalam komunitasnya</p><p align="left"><strong>Kata kunci: Pemberdayaan, Kampung Wisata, Budaya dan Lokalitas<em> </em></strong></p>