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. 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.

Read more in our report: Acts of Citizenship: research results (Dutch)

And here:

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)