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Storytelling as Method for Inclusive and Reciprocal Research Practices
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Meet outside Berrick Saul Building main entrance , Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
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Organised by: InTREEgue Network and the Inclusive Citizen Science Research Group
We are excited to welcome guest speaker, Lotte Dijkstra, for a half-day of exploring storytelling as a tool for building more inclusive, reciprocal, and place-based research practices.
We’ll begin outdoors with a creative storytelling workshop facilitated by Lotte (11:00–12:00), where participants will take part in guided exercises and collaborative story creation inspired by the campus landscape. Materials will be provided, and the session will include an opening check-in and reflective closing.
Following a lunch break, we’ll move indoors for a hybrid session (12:30–14:00, The Treehouse, BS/104, Berrick Saul Building), with Lotte presenting “Storytelling as Method for Inclusive and Reciprocal Research Practices”, followed by a discussion session on how storytelling can promote intersectional environmental approaches to research and engagement.
The morning workshop will be in-person and places are limited to 20 participants, while the afternoon session will be hybrid and is open to all.
Join us to reflect, connect, and experiment with creative research methods that bring people and place together!
Lotte Dijkstra is a landscape architect, researcher, and storyteller. She explores intersectional environmentalism, radical community engagement and place-based creative methods in urban forests through her research and teaching at Newcastle University and through her company Studio PLACES. She previously contributed to research on tree architecture and the cooling effect of urban forests at Delft University of Technology and coedited the Dutch book Planted avenues. On the inseparable relationship between trees and roads. She just submitted her PhD on fostering belonging in urban forests, with outcomes on display in the exhibition Urban Forest Stories at the Farrell Centre for the Built Environment in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, until 30 January 2026.
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