This website archives, documents, and presents the exhibitions and the student art works that emerged from Research-Creation classes or related classes on migration and diaspora at Bard College Berlin and at partner universities in the Open Society University Network (OSUN). The classes and the student exhibitions explore the way research based art-making generates new kinds of knowledge about human movements, displacement, and diaspora as urgent global challenges and chances. Building on a Research-Creation approach to bring migration studies in dialogue with the arts, which pioneered at Bard College Berlin, the initiative will progressively draw together students, professors, and artists from across the participating institutions.

Faculty share their research experience and think together about how to best leverage the practicing arts to enrich teaching in the social sciences and humanities. The network classes explore regional and global discourses and institutions relating to the Western “modern refugee”, as well as epistemologies that challenge these. The participants collaborate on public-facing events, including a multi-site exhibition that offers student artworks from the class as transformative interventions into local and transnational debates about movement and migration regimes.