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Video-Essay in the Classroom?

Fostering Connection and Debate through Relational Video-Making and the Video-Essay

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The chapter is divided in three sections. The first section describes how I developed the relational video-making method, as part of my arts based PhD, taken at University of Westminster. Relational video-making is an umbrella term that assembles together a series of practices of filming in collaboration with the participants of a project, where participants decide together in which way they would like to be represented.

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  1. University of Westminster, UK

    Maria Lusitano Santos

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  1. Emirates College for Advanced Education, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Luisa Menano

  2. Emirates College for Advanced Education, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Patricia Fidalgo

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Santos, M.L. (2017). Video-Essay in the Classroom?. In: Menano, L., Fidalgo, P. (eds) Art and Technology. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-863-1_5

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