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Workshop on visual ethnography where students learn phone-based observation, filming, sound and editing and produce an ethnographic short film within a group.

Visual ethnography is the detailed representation of people, objects, and places in relation through audiovisual means. Such representation is always itself relational and ethically charged, asking who represents and why; who wishes to be represented and how; and what is sufficient for audiences to grasp situated claims and stories?

This workshop operationalises Enough as an ethic-aesthetic calibration across three constituencies: participants, ethnographers, and audiences. Participants learn core methods of visual ethnography (observation, filming, sound, editing) while developing procedures for consent, proportionate visibility, and narrative sufficiency. The emphasis is on attuned representation: images negotiated at the nexus of what ethnographers aim to show, what participants endorse, and what audiences require to follow – no more, no less.

With David Lowis (Junior Professor of Digital Intercultural Communication at SDI Munich International University, Desk Officer at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany), Owain Astles (Participatory Filmmaker, NYU Tisch Affiliate and BAFTA Scholar) and Deborah Sie (Trainer for critical anti-racism and empowerment with a background in anthropology and communication science, focusing on audiovisual media)

More information: https://summer-university.udk-berlin.de/?id=651