# Montage
*Authors: [Anne Pässilä](https://www.linkedin.com/in/annepassila/)*

Summary
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**Art-form**^1^: Visual art
Make a montage. Select images, sounds and words which are juxtaposed to evoke feelings and thoughts while being in your favorite place in nature. Work as a team combining your skills. Document your montage and share it.

*Montage*

**Requirements**
* Time: 1 – 8 hours or longer period
* Difficulty^2^: 1 star
* What you'll need: : Instant camera and group of people you feel comfortable to share your ideas with
* Participants: Any age group

Description
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**Steps**
1. Go to your favorite place (place that is relevant to project for example area that is to be improved or develop), you can walk in pairs or small groups
2. Photograph what evokes your feelings and thoughts (have a drifting type of walk while observing place 15 minutes to 45 minutes, stop and take a photos) and after that gather all together
3. Organise a pop-up exhibition from your snaps and let conversation emerge about place and findings that catch your attention, talk about photos; what do you see in them and beyond related to place
4. Write collectively creative expressions through interpreting photos, show your ideas, emotions and perceptions and reorganize photos to describe your feelings and thoughts
5. Reflect together your montage and identify 5-10 most relevant issues you all share related to a place you visited, it can be a visionary montage or provocative montage

**Which stage to use it in**
* Design

**Why it is useful**
One way to talk about feelings – hopes, dreams, fears - related to specific place

**How to document**
Audio and photographing

**Analysis**
Content 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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