Visual Elicitation and Abduction: A Way to Support Diversity of Interpretation
Language: English and French
The use of images offers the possibility of minimizing these limitations. In order to foster this perspective, this participatory workshop concentrates on exposing a method that exploits the ways in which images can open up meaning.
On a theoretical level, this contribution proposes a way of disrupting conventional representation, to sustain deteritorialisation as Deleuze an Guattari (1972) conceptualized it.
In concrete terms, people are first asked to show what attracts them in a picture by tracing lines or masking parts of it. The types of reasoning that underlines this tracing is then questioned verbally with the people.
The session will be illustrated by cases where this methodology of tracing was used in order to explore underestimated social interpretation of meaning. After an illustrated reminder of how the logic of abduction unfolds, the participants will have the possibility to practice this method. A corpus of non-moving images will be made available. Participants can bring their own pictures too. The workshop format is open to all types of still images.