When Soledad Muñiz, InsightShare’s Director of Programmes, first heard the proposal for a women-only participatory video project in Afghanistan, her initial reaction was one of hesitation. “Under the circumstances that the country is going through, the first feeling was fear… would this be possible?” she remembers. The Taliban’s takeover had ushered in strict limitations on…
When I joined the participatory video (PV) training course in London in April 2025, I wanted to explore new artistic mediums and creative ways of empowering the learning process and delivering projects collaboratively. As someone who studied traditional art and specialised in the heritage sector, I have always wondered how to make arts and culture…
“(Re)conquering power to narrate one’s own history – and, therefore, to construct one’s own image, one’s own identity, to recover and assume a diversity of knowledge systems – constitutes one of the foundations of the decolonisation process” (María Paula Meneses, 2018, p.73). This is the essence of my daily work in communication and participatory media…
Taahira Ayood, our new Operations and Project Officer, shares her journey to Participatory Video, discusses her insights into Tamil culinary traditions as a form of social healing and reflects on her time as a journalist.
