18/06/2026
New book just out! 📘 'Future Perfect' by .donofrio (MAVA, PhD alumna) is the latest addition to the series 'Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography', our collaboration with
'Future Perfect' emerges from practice-based research that focuses on experiences of migration and border crossing during what are perceived as existential 'turning points' by the protagonists themselves. It recognizes the fundamental role that imagination plays in people's perceptions of reality, in their decisions and actions, and finally in the way they narrate their experiences. As a consequence, it makes a stance for ethnographic practice to include more creative and collaborative methodologies in order to explore such intangible and unstructured realms of existence. In particular, this ethnography developed theoretically and methodologically in close collaboration with a group of Egyptian men who crossed the Mediterranean Sea in search of better living opportunities in Italy, by engaging them through a range of the co-creative processes such as theatre improvisations, storytelling practices, collaborative filmmaking and participatory animation.
The book is available in affordable, colour-printed hardcover format and in . But if you buy a hard copy you get access to Alexandra's award-winning documentary 'It Was Tomorrow'.
Check it out at the link in our bio.
