Roots Guide
Multimedia bookYear: 2016 - 2022
Roots Guide is an atypical guidebook that invites you to deeply connect with diverse people and places throughout the Netherlands.
Roots Guide is a collaboration between artists, social entrepreneurs and researchers. I got involved in the project as a research intern in 2019 and throughout 2020 and 2021 I co-created sound compositions with 4 storytelling guides.
I understand my work for Roots Guide as weaving together sonic counter-cartographies driven by the storytellers and my voice. We took field recordings in their meaningful places, recorded narratives and objects that mattered in their stories.
Roots Guide is partly supported by the National Geographic Society.
Roots Guide is a collaboration between artists, social entrepreneurs and researchers. I got involved in the project as a research intern in 2019 and throughout 2020 and 2021 I co-created sound compositions with 4 storytelling guides.
I understand my work for Roots Guide as weaving together sonic counter-cartographies driven by the storytellers and my voice. We took field recordings in their meaningful places, recorded narratives and objects that mattered in their stories.
Roots Guide is partly supported by the National Geographic Society.
Core team:
Ingi Mehus: Project lead & concept developer, storytelling coach, co-writer, co-activity developer, co-researcher, and community engagement lead
Rehab Eldalil: Concept developer, visual storyteller and photographer
Daan Wurpel: Concept developer, co-writer, translator and editor
Meghann Ormond: Concept developer, curator, co-researcher, co-activity developer
Hamzah Kashash: Lead designer, graphic designer
Supporting team:
Sound artist: Kristina Mau Hansen
Research: Fiona Hawes, Kristina Mau Hansen, Anne Kessels, Amber Mulder, Cassandra Bendana, Sarah Walter, Muriel van Winckel, Mesh Gautam, Razan Damlakhi
Activity design: Fiona Hawes, Kristina Mau Hansen
Communication: Fiona Hawes, Anne Kessels, Amber Mulder, Sarah Walter, Muriel van Winckel, Megha Nanda, Zakaria Barakat, Chiara Pizzi, Lay Kuen Yee, Wendy de Jong
Team wellbeing: Mesh Gautam, Alejandra Guijo Bermejo, Abel Fernando
Video production: Chiara Pizzi, Dan Flynn
Soundtrack: Óscar Bouzas Iglesias
Community engagement: Razan Damlakhi, Lay Kuen Yee, Wendy de Jong, Marrit Schakel, Claudius McGill, Mila Eberhardt, Batoul Lakhmoush, Alaa Kalaji
IT support: Abel Fernando
Ingi Mehus: Project lead & concept developer, storytelling coach, co-writer, co-activity developer, co-researcher, and community engagement lead
Rehab Eldalil: Concept developer, visual storyteller and photographer
Daan Wurpel: Concept developer, co-writer, translator and editor
Meghann Ormond: Concept developer, curator, co-researcher, co-activity developer
Hamzah Kashash: Lead designer, graphic designer
Supporting team:
Sound artist: Kristina Mau Hansen
Research: Fiona Hawes, Kristina Mau Hansen, Anne Kessels, Amber Mulder, Cassandra Bendana, Sarah Walter, Muriel van Winckel, Mesh Gautam, Razan Damlakhi
Activity design: Fiona Hawes, Kristina Mau Hansen
Communication: Fiona Hawes, Anne Kessels, Amber Mulder, Sarah Walter, Muriel van Winckel, Megha Nanda, Zakaria Barakat, Chiara Pizzi, Lay Kuen Yee, Wendy de Jong
Team wellbeing: Mesh Gautam, Alejandra Guijo Bermejo, Abel Fernando
Video production: Chiara Pizzi, Dan Flynn
Soundtrack: Óscar Bouzas Iglesias
Community engagement: Razan Damlakhi, Lay Kuen Yee, Wendy de Jong, Marrit Schakel, Claudius McGill, Mila Eberhardt, Batoul Lakhmoush, Alaa Kalaji
IT support: Abel Fernando