The Exhibit and Beyond: Attendees, Collaborating Organizations, and Decision Makers Responding to a Photovoice Project

Authors

  • Cara DiEnno University of Denver
  • Corey Martz University of Denver
  • Lauren Collins University of Montana
  • Mimiko Watanabe Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology (CMTP) at Boston Medical Center, PsyD

Keywords:

photovoice, public participation, community voice, transportation, university-city partnerships, impacts on decision-making-public partnerships, impacts on decision-making

Abstract

Photovoice aims to impact those who view photographs and stories in culminating exhibits. This multi-phase research project, completed in partnership with city government and community partners, explored photovoice impacts on exhibit attendees, collaborating organizations, and decision-makers. Results show increased levels of awareness, concern, and willingness to take action among exhibit attendees. Additionally, collaborating organizations and decision-makers saw the power of “thicker†public engagement processes, like photovoice, to provide useful data to aid decision-making.

Author Biographies

Cara DiEnno, University of Denver

Cara Marie DiEnno, Associate Director, Center for Community Engagement to advance Scholarship and Learning, University of Denver, PhD 

Cara DiEnno is a community-engaged scholar who has worked with city governments on various public participation projects. She has a background in environmental communication and through her role at the University of Denver, supports faculty, staff and students in their community-engaged work – collaborating with the community through the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity. 

Corey Martz, University of Denver

Corey J. Martz, PhD Candidate, Department of Geography & the Environment, University of Denver 

Corey Martz is a geographer interested in human-environment interactions and exploring these interactions through qualitative GIS approaches to mapping the stories of people’s lived geographies. Corey is a Community-Engaged Fellow in the Center for Community Engagement to advance Scholarship and Learning at the University of Denver. 

Lauren Collins, University of Montana

Lauren Collins, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davidson Honors College, University of Montana 

Lauren Collins is a higher education scholar, cultural anthropologist, and educator focused on the social context of education. She teaches at the Davidson Honors College at the University of Montana. She was a CCESL Student Fellow while she studied for her doctorate degree in higher education at the University of Denver.

 

Mimiko Watanabe, Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology (CMTP) at Boston Medical Center, PsyD

Mimiko Watanabe, PsyD was a CCESL Student Fellow for the Arts while she studied for her doctorate degree of psychology and worked to use photovoice as a means to connect community members with city officials to address their concerns. She is currently a clinical psychologist serving the LGBTQ+ community in Philadelphia, PA. She continues to be passionate about processes of empowerment for people with marginalized identities to impact change on both micro and macro levels. 

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Published

12/02/2021

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 3 (2021)

Section

Research and Theory

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