Drawing our future: using an art-based community-visioning model in community organizing with marginalized ethnic young people from the mountain Jews community in Israel

ABSTRACT

This paper outlines a rationale and a methodology for an art-based community-visioning model to facilitate visioning of the community's future by young people from marginalized communities. The model presented was implemented among young people from the Mountain Jewish Community in Israel. It was found that the use of personal drawings made it possible to simultaneously identify and communicate personal narratives, and thereby develop a shared community vision. The theoretical and practical implications of the model are discussed, as well as its applied potential for community organization processes with young people from marginalized communities.

KEYWORDS:

• Art-based model
• community organizing
• community visioning
• ethnic community
• futuring

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