From Interview to Dialogue: For Connection and Mutual Understanding

Master’s Thesis Project

Interviews, dialogues, workshops2025

What if interviews could not only collect stories but also create connections? In this graduation project, I explore how interviews can become pathways to understanding. Inspired by my own feelings of alienation as a teenager and my work as a documentary filmmaker, I investigated how interviews can help people to share the meaning behind their life experiences. Through tools like lifelines and guided tours, I worked with students and individuals with connective tissue disorders, discovering how these methods gave participants control over their narratives, sparking new insights. By watching these interviews together and engaging in group dialogues, participants found recognition and connection, with each other and within themselves. In my thesis, I show how these accessible tools can create connection in education and community settings.


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