Research lab

Our creative techniques

Dance, theatre, storytelling are a few of the methods young people use to express themselves. What if you could find all these techniques in one place? That place is the Recrear Research Lab – a repository of fun participatory action research techniques inspired by the coolest youth projects around the world. We hope you will enjoy it, share it and publish with us!

Submit your research technique with our step-by-step template. Our awesome and experienced editors will reach to you to get to know you and your technique, help adapt it and wupti, you are ready to get published.

Featured Techniques

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Recrear is moved by the creative energy of its community. If you believe in the power of art to build community and inspire social change, share your technique with us. You will contribute to the training of young researchers around the world and be part of a community that believes young voices should be part of the development process.

Why publish with us?

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Recrear is moved by the creative energy of its community. If you believe in the power of art to build community and inspire social change, share your technique with us. You will contribute to the training of young researchers around the world and be part of a community that believes young voices should be part of the development process.

Techniques Repository

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The Messy Room

By: Quime Williams

10 things that make me happy

By: Gioel Gioacchino

Letter to Friends

By: Gioel Gioacchino

Digital Stories

By: Denisse Albornoz

The notebook production game

By: Quime Williams and Gioel Gioacchino

Data doodles

By: Denisse Albornoz

Blind Artist

By: Quime Williams

Actionbound app for research

By: Jonas Sylvester Kasperen

Writing Marathon

By: Gioel Gioacchino

Visualizing Success and Failure

By: Maria Gabriela (Gaby) Biscardi

Listen and Paint – Paint and Listen

By: Luis Felipe Moreno and Gioel Gioacchino

The personal map of my neighbourhood

By: Luis Felipe Moreno and Gioel Gioacchino

Balloon Mirroring

By: Quime Williams

Our 10 Songs

By: Gioel Gioacchino

Body Stories

By: Quime Williams

Stereotypes improv

By: Quime Williams

Fear in a Balloon

By: Anna Wohlrab and Gioel Gioacchino

Coding in Movement

By: Quime Williams

Using movement as data

By: Christy Zinn

Embodying complexity

By: Scarlett Kassimatis