(1) On the beginning of the project TICASS researchers representing various fields in humanities during the first secondment agreed on the main research tools for empirical research, which are:
(I) Lasswell’s Cards containing photos from 5 categories identified in public space in cities: (1) parks, streets, and squares (2) public facilities (3) public transport (4) public transportation stops (5) railway/metro/airport/other stations),
(II) Analysis of Lasswell’s Cards in six perspectives of visual analysis proposed by Paul Martin Lester: (1) personal (2) historical (3) aesthetic/technical (4) cultural (5) ethical (6) critical.
Empirical material collected from Poland and from Kenya was described and analysed, and formed the monograph: Perzycka Elzbieta, Lukaszewicz Alcaraz Aleksandra (eds) (2019). Technologies of Imaging in Urban Communication. Report 1 from Poland/ Szczecin, edited by Elżbieta Perzycka and Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz, Wydawnictwo Kolegium Sztuk Wizualnych Akademii Sztuki w Szczecinie, Szczecin 2019; and Perzycka Elzbieta, Lukaszewicz Alcaraz Aleksandra (eds) (2019). Technologies of Imaging in Urban Communication. Report 2 from Kenya/Kilifi. Szczecin: Wydawnictwo Kolegium Sztuk Wizualnych Akademii Sztuki w Szczecinie. The materiał collected from the United Kingdom, Italy and Czech Republic is kept ton file and prepared for publication in the next year.
Theoretical considerations and analysis are contained in three monographs published in the TICASS project:
Fleming Michael, Lukaszewicz Alcaraz Aleksandra (eds.) (2018). Visuality from Intercultural Perspectives. Technology of Images in Communication, Art and Social Sciences". Szczecin: PUNO Press.
Stara Flavia, Lukaszewicz Alcaraz Aleksandra (eds) (2020). Urban Visuality, Mobility, Information and Technology of Images, edited by Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz and Flavia Stara, Szczecin: Wydawnictwo Akademii Sztuki w Szczecinie.
Stara Flavia, Lukaszewicz Alcaraz Aleksandra (eds). (2021). Spaces of Transfers and Visual Management of Human Mobility. Szczecin: Academy of Art in Szczecin.
(2) TICASS team have created the photographic exhibition, which is both an artistic production and a research tool for investigating modes and specificity of perception and interpretation of the same images in various countries.The first exhibition at Academy of Art in Poland in June 2017 "RAPPROACHMENT" was curated by Karolina Zawislak. The next exhibitions curated by Adela Machova “RAPPROACHMENT with public space“ were held at Pwani Main Library in Kilifi, 16 November-12 December 2018; at POSK Gallery, 11-19 May 2019 at PUNO in London, UK; at Palazzo Buonaccorsi in Macerata, Italy, 13-26 November 2019; at the Ústí nad Labem House of Arts in the Czech Republic, 28 April-11 May 2020.
(3) Educational focus of the research overlapped with the artistic focus through workshops, trainings, laboratories, realized projects, and interviews, and it was realized throughout the whole time of the project, but especially during mobilities and during exhibition, when there are conducted interviews (managed by Rosita Deluigi from UNIMC). Perspective of visual sociology proposed as a metod for deep interviews on the basis of general predispositions with the presentation of photograms appeared to be the method better suited to the research aim then the previous one, adopted in Poland, basing on interviews realized in the form of a survey.
