Last Focus Information

Our mission is to gather visual researchers around the world. Scholars, students, artists, associations and academic institutions are invited to participate in our workshops, meetings and blog. Last Focus is a associative project launched by in 2014. Our purpose is to create an associative platform capable of gathering people and promoting projects in visual studies. We are convinced that the study of social phenomena through visual sources is a valid and innovative way to approach social sciences. For that reason we believe in the importance of studying the visual dimension of social and cultural phenomena. We believe that visual studies should be open to everyone. We advocate for new proposals and consequently we believe in the importance of new methodological frames. We support the "deconstruction" of Western paradigms in social sciences. Consequently we promote a "decolonial" and "pluriversal" approach in social surveys capable to revert the "academic mode" of studying communities. We advocate the promotion of techniques that recognize the communities as legitimate and empowered actors in the construction of scientific knowledge.