River of Life. A research Project on display. This drawings exhibition asks: In displacement settings, what shapes the life trajectories of young people from education to employment? During the River of Life exercise, Dana Al Barqawi, a mixed media artist, supported young people to use art as an alternative way to communicate what they could not always put into words, expressing their experiences and emotions about their personal histories of education, work, and displacement. We invited a group of young Jordanians, Palestinian and Syrian refugees, living in Amman to draw their River of Life. This analytical participatory approach produced meaningful drawings representing their trajectories from birth onto the future and reflect the legal, social, gender, cultural, and economic realities. Each drawing is accompanied by Stories Unfold: narratives of youth from education to employment.
River of Life,
Introductory Note
Barqawi, Dana
Project Members: Al Barqawi, Dana
Faculty of Technology, Design and EnvironmentSchool of Architecture
Year: 2022
Economic and Social Research (GRID: grid.434257.3) : From education to employment? Trajectories for young people in Lebanon in the context of protracted displacement (ES/S004742/1) International Development Research Centre (GRID: grid.419341.a) : Towards employment? Youth trajectories in Jordan and Lebanon’s refugee crisis (109043)
Amman, Jordan
© Barqawi, Dana; Oxford Brookes University and Centre for Lebanese Studies Published by Oxford Brookes University