Joanna Kocsis
PhD

I am community-engaged researcher whose work examines how creative practice can be used in research, policymaking and civil society organizing to build socially just and sustainable cities. I use art methods to examine the contemporary transformations of urban space that result from the economic and social restructuring of communities impoverished by globalization. My theory-building work on art as research, connects the ontological principals of anti-oppressive, post-structuralist, feminist and decolonial perspectives to the material practice of research, examining how creative practice produces space for knowledge creation by historically excluded communities, in ways that advance social justice and sustainability projects.