At the heart of Contours Collaborations is the idea that artistic and humanistic representations can raise awareness, engender questions, and provoke reflection about border crossing beyond the cacophony of current policy debates.

By looking into the creative imaginaries of political, cultural, and physical boundaries, this new initiative will help shift attitudes, and shape geographic imaginations, through such forces as empathy, association, and a sense of shared experiences.

Contours Collaborations aims to go beyond policy briefs, knowledge syntheses, and scoping reviews relating to the flight and plight of displaced persons by engaging, through art and interactive aesthetic experiences, with deeply-held attitudes about borders.

The Contours Collaborations group is made up of internationally-renowned artists, scholars, activists, and community organizations, connected through a Board of Consultants and a Board of Editors, and exhibited on a ground-breaking digital space.

Robert F Barsky, Director. Contours Collaborations is published by The AmeriQuests Press. ISSN: 3068-155