Making Knowledge Together: Exploring community archives through zine-making

Thu Apr 02 2026 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm UTC+01:00

Main Library | Edinburgh

The Binks Hub
Publisher/HostThe Binks Hub
Making Knowledge Together: Exploring community archives through zine-making
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An interactive zine workshop with the Poverty Truth Community and Dr Emma Davidson of the Binks Hub.
About this Event

This is part of a co-creation day, celebrating participatory and creative forms of research practices hosted by and . To explore and sign up for other events, view the .

Run by visual artist Jean McEwan, Dr Emma Davidson and Helen Berry, this session invites participants to explore how community archives create and share knowledge about lived experience. Though guided engagement with the Poverty Truth Community (PTC) archive, participants will explore how community archives can be navigated, understood and used, and on the kinds of knowledge they make visible. The session will include a hands-on zine-making activity, offering space to creatively reflect on archiving as a research method and to consider how we might archive our own research materials and experiences. In preparation for the session, participants are asked that they spend time familiarising themselves with the PTC archive. The link the archive, and a preparatory video, will be shared in advance.

You are welcome to join us for the lunch prior to the workshop (13:00-14:00) or to just attend the workshop.

The event will take place in room 1.07 on the 1st floor of the Main Library. You do not need an access card to join us.

The session will be led by the research team who have co-created the Poverty Truth Community archive:

Emma Davidson - co-director at the Binks Hub, https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/emma-davidson

Jean McEwan - visual artist and creative facilitator, http://jeanmcewan.com/

Helen Berry - researcher and doctoral candidate, https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/helen-berry


Accessibility Information

The session is designed to be relaxed, informal and inclusive. Please let us know if you require adjustments that would make the session more accessible by emailing the Binks Hub at [email protected].


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Main Library, 30 George Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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