The TRANSFORM Partnership
A special feature of the TRANSFORM Partnership is the connection, directly or indirectly, of 19 centres, labs, studios, and institutes focused on one of more of the following: participatory visual and other arts-based methodologies, community engagement, social change, transformative forms of engagement.
Spread across the various partner universities in six countries, this unique network serves variety of functions:
- A knowledge mobilization hub
- Knowledge exchange
- Potential for new collaborations
- Support to TRANSFORM’S Y2Y strategy
- Facilitating a mentoring and training agenda
- Advancing research in related areas of participatory visual methodologies and social change
A unique network of university-based hubs
The TRANSFORM Partnership features a unique network of university-based hubs focused on participatory visual and arts-based methodologies, community engagement, and social change.
There are thirteen labs in Canada including:
- Research for Social Change Lab at Trent University
- Participatory Cultures Lab at McGill University
- Education for Gender Justice Lab at the University of Windsor
- Leadership and Learning for Sustainability at McGill University
- Participatory Research at McGill University
- Visual Methods Studio at Concordia University
- Community Bridge Lab at the University of Lethbridge
- Queer & Joyful Worldmaking Lab at Concordia University
- Documentary, Arts-based Methods & Social Justice cluster
- Community Mobile Media Lab at NSCAD University
- Centre for Justice, Equity & Sustainable Action at the University of Fraser Valley
- Institute for Art, Community and Transdisciplinary Studies at NSCAD University
- Research Chair in Community based Participatory Research at York University
In the United States there is the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas at the University of California Santa Cruz
In Mexico there is the Centro de Investigaciones sobre America del Norte at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
In Nigeria there is the Aaye Odo Lab with the University of Waterloo
In South Africa there are two centres:
- Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg
- Centre for Visual Methodologies for Social Change at the the University of KwaZulu-Natal
And in Australia there is the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies at the Swinburne University of Technology
