Windows on the World: Creativity and community thriving at the border

This article draws from the experience of a research initiative and an immersive art project, ‘Windows on the World’ (WOTW), Ritsona Refugee Camp in Greece, in 2022–23. Embedded within a framework that entangles creative arts, educational psychology and cultural studies, the article navigates the experience of resilience for the participant children aged 6–16 years. Taking the thread from the artistic experiences proposed in WOTW, this arts-based research traces how the encounter between creative arts, and in particular music, empowers the children living in protracted displacement. By mapping and analysing experiences of empowerment, cross-cultural integration and transculturation, we seek to produce knowledge on the potential of creative arts for building resilience in fluctuating communities.