# Impressions-on-the-wall -method
*Authors: [Anne Pässilä](https://www.linkedin.com/in/annepassila/)*
Inspired by Owens, A. and Barber, K. (2001) Mapping Drama. Carel Press Ltd. UK. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data.

Summary
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**Art-form**^1^: Visual art

*Impressions-on-the-wall provides you an aesthetic distance to articualte and reflect your emotions and to share them with others*

**Requirements**
* Time: 1 – 8 hours or longer period (depending how deep and rich reflection is needes)
* Difficulty^2^: 1 star
* What you'll need:newspapers, pencils, colors, mobile phones and digital platform (to share photos)
* Participants: Adult groups

Description
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**Steps**
1.Draw a line of yourself on a large sheet of paper (you can use old newspaper pages)
2.Use the outline to represent ´outer´and ´inner` impressions/ senses/feelings you have during this stage of participatory process
3.Paint and write (poetic writing) your impressions/ senses/feelings on a sheet of a paper.
4.Document the making of this activity by taking photos.
5.Share your photos in digital platform established for this process.
6.Reflect your photos and try to make visible your emotions.

**Which stage to use it in**
* Deployment

**Why it is useful**
One way to make invisible issues visible and include human-centred issues systematically to process.

**How to document**
Mobile phone photos which are shared via digital platform, recorded interviews of each or selected participants

**Analysis**
Hermeneutic analysis

*Footnotes*

^1^ Categories are based on Sara Coemans and Karin Hannes. 2017. Researchers under the spell of the arts: Two decades of using arts-based methods in community-based inquiry with vulnerable populations. Educational Research Review 22 (2017), 34–49.
^2^ 1-5 stars, I star being easy to facilitate and do not require deep artistic skills and 5 stars requiring deep level artistic skills.

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