Project Oerol
Humans are wired for prejudice: it can be related to race, sex, religion or culture. Prejudice is a persistent barrier to building a more inclusive society. How can prejudice be reduced? Project Oerol is a large-scale arts-science collaboration between researchers and artists, which aims to confront the public with their prejudice through live theater and (pre registered) interventions. Our project analyzes the prejudice-reducing power of arts-based narrative interventions.
We started project Oerol in 2022.
Through collaboration with artists like actors, writers, and musicians, we investigate which narratives can reduce prejudice in which ways. This is an important question in times in which polarization is on the rise.
Oerol is an ongoing research project.
Bert Bakker
Asssociate Professor for Good Research Practices at the University of Amsterdam
Matthijs Rooduijn
Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam
Gijs Schumacher
Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam
Read more in our report: Acts of Citizenship: research results (Dutch)
Research article: Acts of Citizenship: research results (Dutch)
Press: Dystopian musical theater about morally right actions (Dutch)
Press: Research into empathy and tolerance, disguised as Oerol theater (Dutch)
Press: UvA students conduct research at Oerol with a music collective (Dutch)
Press: Acts of Citizenship: how individual choices can have disastrous consequences (Dutch)
Video: Acts of Citizenship (UvA)
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