The use of images in the construction of a research path

Abstract

The contribution is proposed as a consideration on the role or roles that
video and photography can assume along the evolution of an anthropological
research path starting from the observation of three didactic laboratories on the field launched between 2017 and 2021 in Venice and aimed at students of two high schools. Workshops conceived as exploration-analysis paths of an abandoned area, as the composition of a visual choral narration on it, and as construction paths of a relational terrain between generations starting from the sharing of images of places of the city.
In the stages of evolution, the laboratories have been given the opportunity
to observe the use of photography and video as sensitive surfaces to the detection of themes, aspects, traits of an explored context that can help define directions of gaze-investigation. They highlighted its value in terms of access to pieces of further knowledge that originate in a filtered subject-context relationship, mediated by a registration tool.
They have been a ground for observation with respect to the use of images
as an impulse to the flow of experiences-narratives, as the trigger for a common relational territory, as a visual memory to return to in the course of subsequent reflections that lead to and build a research path.