Art-Based Research | Autoethnography | Co-creation | Capstone
The Relational Nature of Women's Health Storytelling:
My sonic autoethnographic journey of
interacting with the Channapatna Health Library
The objective of this capstone project is to explore the significance of storytelling in the context of health, particularly focusing on women's health and collective care work situated at Channapatna a town in Karnataka. By employing qualitative research methods, including audio-based oral histories, the project aims to investigate the impact of storytelling on community health knowledge aggregation by local health workers called Health Navigators.
Exploring an art-based qualitative research practice where I am experimenting with digital storytelling with the medium of sound, audios, field recordings and audio archives from the Channapatna Health Library.
What I did
- Conducting participatory research with Channapatna Health Library team for 1 year
- Making sense with the audio libray
- Field observation
- Produced 5000 words exegesis