Saskia de Wildt

Arts-based researcher
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research interests: arts-based research, ethnography, visual ethnography, environmental humanities, Politics of knowledge, critical discourse analysis, Global development studies, sustainability
affiliation: Queens University
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Visual Storyteller

 

As an Art-director I rely on my  conceptual design skills to come up with projects that challenge you to look at people, places and everyday habits with new eyes.

 

As a researcher I seek to embed these creative processes my research. Always seeking to further my understanding of the world through arts-based methods and storytelling. 

 

As a maker, I prefer to work in partnership with organisations, communities and publication platforms. I am a firm believer in co-creation and participatory processes.

 

But in the end, I am a wayfarer. I flow between worlds and people. I am a connecter. And a storyteller. If you think this resonates with you and if you would like to share a moment - let's make it happen.

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  • Walking the Newsroom: Towards a Sensory Experience of Journalism (2020) author(s): Sander Hölsgens, Saskia de Wildt, Tamara Witschge published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    We invite you to join us on a walk through the newsroom of a regional newspaper, Dagblad van het Noorden. We trace how the journalists perceive, articulate, engage, embrace, challenge, are receptive to, and give form to the ‘atmospheres’ of their workspace. The concept of atmospheres is central in how we have looked at the newsroom. On this walk, we explore the spatial, socio-cultural, rhythmic, tonal, and somatic characteristics of the recently redesigned newsroom, using video, sound, text, and drawing. Employing artistic methods, we want to let you experience this newsroom together with us – giving you insight into the journalists’ lived experience of their profession as fundamentally interwoven with the idiosyncrasies of their workspace. Our host on the walk is online news editor Alfred Meester. Alfred walked us, Saskia and Sander, through the newsroom, which we visited as part of the project Exploring Journalism’s Limits (funded by the Dutch Research Council, NWO, project number: 314-99-205). Also joining us on this day is Ricky Booms, a visual artist invited to reflect on the space alongside us. Along the way, we encounter visual editors, interns, freelancers, editorial staff writers, and learn about the kinds of spaces that resonate with them. The walk takes approximately 45 minutes.
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