Evaluation

This project has been highly challenging and ambitious. It was nerve racking initially collaborating with external clients, but the staff and the Refugee Council where excellent in supporting and working on this project. This was a strong platform for working collaboratively, and researching. The outcomes from the workshops did meet the aims, the two that took place within the councils building did promote unity and create a welcoming environment. The work the organisation Getaway Girls allowed me gain extra information. The self-led workshop did require a lot of adapting to fit with the time frame of the project and other constrains, but the workshop was carried out successfully. With this group of individual, they are highly vulnerable, so taking photos of them, I felt, would have made them feel uncomfortable. Even though this would have would clear method of documenting interview, I felt it was more important to make them feel at ease and to try and avoid being too intrusive. From the sketches and notes I produced key narratives started to pop out. One of the main narratives came from a young girl who attend the self-led workshop, who told me her
aspiration was to live in a house in the middle of a forest with lots of birds. This spanned off into producing a series of four fabric wall hangings based on the stories the participants told me. Even though this project has been hard going both with subject and work load, I have discovered I prefer
working individually because you have control over time management and the structure of the project. But first hand interviews and conversations with the people the social / political issue directly effects are invaluable.