Authors
Viktoriia Grivina1; 1 St Andrews University, UK Discussion
This hybrid presentation is an immersion in methods of collaborative creative research. By drawing parallels between writing on a city wall and writing a book in and about the city, I look at the new approaches to collaboration. The search for new methodologies is especially important in critical times, during wars, political unrest, pandemics, etc., as the experience of time and space becomes distorted, pressed, or stretched into the eternity of social encounters. What does it mean to be a writer and a scholar on the one hand, and a citizen and city dweller at risk on the other? What instruments can co-authorship present for those willing to immerse themselves in embodied research, auto-ethnographic, and creative methodologies? By combining visual presentation with reading from my chapter on the Good Conflict in Kharkiv, I would like to open a discussion on the prospects of collaboration, both between researchers, scholars, and artists, and even further between different aspects of a single author’s identity - writer, citizen, anthropologist, etc., and even conflicts between those roles. A book, a city, and research start with a single step, a thought, and a dream. The making of Kharkiv is a Dream comprises three perspectives and multiple micro collaborations, discussing which can help grasp a new horizon of academic imagination. 
