Art-Based Research Community (ARC) webinar series

Session 2. Participation and co-creation

Speakers: Floor Hofman & Zsuzsu Tavy

Date: February 5th, 2026

Time: 3-5pm

Online (zoom)

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How can participatory, arts-based methods create shared spaces of inquiry between patients, caregivers, practitioners, and researchers? 

This session explores participatory, arts-based research as both an ethical and aesthetic practice. We will look at how co-creation can redistribute voice and agency, foreground lived experience, and make room for ambiguity and friction. Through concrete examples, we’ll discuss the politics of collaboration, consent, and representation in shared research spaces.

Floor Hofman will share a selection of her documentary filmmaking projects to illustrate how her work shifted from collecting stories to documentary as dialogue: a process where participants become active co-creators. She will present clips in which participants share the meaning behind their life experiences, and describe how these personal stories inspired mutual understanding and connection among participants during collective screenings and group dialogues. Zsuzsu will explore the backstage processes of participatory video research, focusing on navigating challenging situations encountered in practice, including ethical dilemmas in working with film in participatory ways, questions of representation, and shifting power relations. Themes that are also relevant to other forms of art-based research, where multiple and often shifting roles can come into play.

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Floor Hofman

Floor Hofman is a documentary filmmaker and educator. She often works as an artist-in-residence, living in communities to tell their stories. Her films are shown at cultural and community venues, where they serve to start dialogue. She works as a student coach at Design Academy Eindhoven and gives guest workshops at various art and design institutions

Website: floorhofman.com

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Zsuzsu Tavy

Zsuzsu Tavy has a background in visual anthropology and nursing, and works as a researcher at the research group of Urban Ageing at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. In her research with older adults, she works in participatory ways, using a range of participatory approaches. One of these is participatory video, through which older adults make films about what matters to them in meaningful ageing and living.

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