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ICD Exercise #3: Mix, Mix, Remix: Drawing on Pop Culture Stories to Inspire Intercultural Dialogue

ICD Exercises

The next ICD Exercise is now available. Sangita Shresthova has written a new one, Mix, Mix, Remix: Drawing on Pop Culture Stories to Inspire Intercultural Dialogue.

The Mix, Mix, Remix workshop taps icons and narratives borrowed from popular culture to encourage intercultural dialogue and bridge divisions and differences. Participants begin by gathering and sharing stories that inspire them. Then, exploring each other’s stories, they start to mix and recombine elements between stories, seeing how the combinations of unexpected elements lead to entirely new creative narratives. As story remixing leads to real-life sharing, reflection, debate, and collaboration, as well as, most importantly, connection.

The use of narrative remix in this works promotes a mode of intercultural dialogue that can be easy to understand, accessible, and yet powerful. It encourages people to encounter each other through the act of building a remixed shared narrative, one that respects their individuality and yet allows them to connect through the weaving of stories that have been significant in their lives.

As with prior publications, ICD Exercises are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download.

Intercultural Dialogue Exercise #3 by Sangita Shresthova

Shresthova, S. (2024). Mix, mix, remix: Drawing on pop culture stories to inspire intercultural dialogue. Intercultural Dialogue Exercises, 3. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/icd-ex-3-shresthova-1.pdf

If you have an exercise you’ve used that works, and you would like to share it, please submit it. All authors will be asked to answer the same set of questions, and to make the exercises available for others to use, thus these are being published with a Creative Commons license (as is the case for all CID publications). If you are new to CID, please provide a brief resume. This opportunity is open to masters students and above, on the assumption that some familiarity with academic conventions generally, and discussion of intercultural dialogue specifically, are useful.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director Center for Intercultural Dialogue

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Sangita Shresthova Profile

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Dr. Sangita Shresthova is Associate Research Professor of Communication and Co-PI of the Civic Imagination Project at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

Sangita ShresthovaShe is a writer, researcher, scholar, speaker and practitioner with expertise in mixed-methods research, media literacies, media and parenting, popular culture, civic imagination, and globalization.  Her recent publications include three co-authored books: Practicing Futures: The Civic Imagination Action Handbook, Transformative Media Pedagogies, and Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change. Sangita is one of the creators of the Digital Civics Toolkit, a collection of resources for educators and teachers to support youth learning. Her creative work has also been presented in venues around the world including the Pasadena Dance Festival, Schaubuehne (Berlin), the Other Festival (Chennai), the EBS International Documentary Festival (Seoul), and the American Dance Festival (Durham, NC). She is also a faculty member at the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change in Austria.

A Czech-Nepalese child of the final years of the Cold War, Sangita grew up between Prague and Kathmandu. Her childhood was shaped by hostile visa policies and travel restrictions. In reaction, she has since taken the opportunity to call many cities home (including Brussels, Boston, London, Kandy, Ahmedabad, and Berlin). She relishes any opportunity to draw on her mixed race/cultural background and routinely keeps track of multiple time zones. She is still most comfortable when her carry-on is packed and believes home is a place where there is someone waiting for you; right now that is Los Angeles.

Work for CID: Sangita Shresthova serves on the CID Advisory Board, and is the author of ICD Exercises #3: Mix, Mix, Remix: Drawing on Pop Culture Stories to Inspire Intercultural Dialogue. In addition she will be participating in an expert group organized by the Center.