How often do we really find out how research happens behind the scenes - including hurdles, rethinking and the struggle for knowledge? The ‘Project Biographies - Affective Archive’ sub-project makes precisely this visible: using formats such as graphic novels, podcasts or a digital museum, we show how research is created - in a lively, understandable and comprehensible way.

In particular, we are focussing on scrollytelling - an interactive form of storytelling on the internet: As you scroll, texts, images, videos and animations combine to form a coherent story. This makes it easy to convey even complex topics in an exciting way. Unexpected twists and turns and personal experiences also play an important role.

The first part is the research diary ‘Emotional Formations in Vietnamese Berlin’, which traces the path of a team that investigated the emotional dynamics in the upbringing of Vietnamese migrant families in Berlin. What began as a research question becomes a dense narrative - with animated texts, videos and very personal insights. The researchers speak openly about methodological hurdles, cultural misunderstandings and surprising turning points. This project biography makes it possible to experience how knowledge is created in social and cultural anthropology: What questions drive researchers? What happens when an approach doesn't work? And how do you deal with uncertainties and ambivalences? Discover it now!