Creative Co-Imagination in Transgenerational Comics Workshops

Inkeri Aula and Masood Masoodian
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Inkeri Aula: Aalto University, Finland
Masood Masoodian: Aalto University, Finland

Sociological Research Online, 2025, vol. 30, issue 2, 469-486

Abstract: With the world population aging rapidly, it is crucial to include the imagination of older adults in envisioning a better future, and to promote transgenerational exchanges. To achieve this, novel interdisciplinary methods are needed to assist researchers with studying the process of transgenerational creative co-imagination involving older adults and younger people together. In this article, we present a workshop method that brings together methodological approaches from the fields of sensorial ethnography and visual narratives in a multi-professional setting to facilitate transgenerational creative co-imagining of future. To illustrate the use of this method, we present a case study of two workshops we have held recently with older adults and young people in which a sensory walk method has been combined with a grassroots comics method to co-create comic strips that present narratives of transgenerationally co-imagined future of natural environments. We also discuss the lessons learned from these two case-study workshops, with the aim of highlighting some of the shortcomings of our workshop method, so that, it can revised and expanded further to suit the specific needs of other studies.

Keywords: co-creation; co-imagination; comics; creative methods; creativity; imagination; sensory studies; transgenerational (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1177/13607804241259733

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