RESEARCH PHILOSOPHY

Language does not merely describe the world. It is a tool to produce it.

It shapes whose voices are recognized, how belonging is negotiated, and which forms of knowledge acquire authority. My research begins with these relationships between language, power, and social reality.

As a transdisciplinary researcher, cognitive sociolinguist, and designer of participatory research methods, I work at the intersections of multilingualism, creolization, migration, postcolonial inquiry, art, and public dialogue. I explore how linguistic practices acquire social meaning, how they circulate across communities and institutions, and how they shape recognition, participation, and contemporary urban life.

I understand research as a collaborative practice—not as the extraction of knowledge from communities. By combining sociolinguistic research with ethnographic, artistic, and participatory methods, I create spaces in which academic, artistic, professional, and lived forms of knowledge can meet, challenge one another, and generate new questions.

My work moves across universities, museums, civil-society organizations, municipalities, and cultural networks. It takes the form of scholarly publications, but also of exhibitions, podcasts, maps, stories, and public conversations. These are not simply formats for communicating completed research. They are themselves sites of inquiry and knowledge production.

For me, art is never merely decoration. It is a method of inquiry, a form of encounter, and the beginning of an argument. Art can make structures visible, unsettle familiar categories, and open conversations that conventional academic formats cannot always hold. My own artistic practice is participatory, process-driven, and—at its best—productively uncomfortable.

And yes, I love croissants: proof that patience, layers, and a little butter can transform complexity into something extraordinary. Not a bad metaphor for research, either.