method · all tools
Visual Narratives
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
Groups build a collective narrative about stress and translate it into object-based art installations — working with creative constraints, a scent, found objects, and feedback from a practicing artist. Creativity exercised on emotionally real material with an aesthetic, not therapeutic, frame.
Hold with care
- The theme (stress) is personal even in aesthetic disguise — groups choose how autobiographical their installation gets
Practical
- Time
- 240 min
- Group
- 12–30 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Materials
- Flip-over sheets, markers, a scent, assorted objects
- Mechanisms
- creative-expression, narrative-identity, dialogic-encounter
- Change scope
- state · one-off
Instructions
- Where
- transitionmakers.nl/tool/visual-narratives — Transition Makers Toolbox, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 per the Transition Makers footer; its badge links CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — variant unresolved, see source record
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
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Origin
Fleur Boelen & Michèle Gerbrands via Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA); with artist Anna van Suchtelen — Arts-based inquiry
In this directory via Transition Makers Toolbox
status: checked · added 2026-08-25