Over the last three years I have been led to direct a multifaceted project that I would describe as a project driven by multimodal anthropology. This collaborative action research project in the field of mental health enabled an institutional and community environment in a medium-sized Canadian city to deploy a series of socio-artistic gestures in favor of the destigmatization of people and places associated with mental illness. These actions took the form of two courses, one intra muros and the other extra muros, within which audiences and partners and participants were invited to propose alternative and inclusive representations. Throughout the implementation of this action which mobilized around 200 participants, around thirty partners, around fifteen cultural and healthcare organizations, and a team of researchers including anthropologists. The role of anthropology was that of mobilizing knowledge and resources and raising perspectives from within in the face of mental illness. How does such an unconventional action relate to anthropology? The presentation will allow us to look at the characteristics of the project allowing us to understand that anthropology was and remains the discipline at the forefront, in particular these: insistence on the perspective of the actors and from within and the time necessary to let them emerge ; multiperspectivism through the use of the plurality of non-hegemonic points of view on the cultural level; use of several data sources but also of several formats (audio, video, iconographic, textual, archiving, digital, etc.) facilitating the representation of a multi-emic perspectivism; variation and constant adaptation of observation scales relevant to changing situations and the complexities of the terrain; tightening of the research work around the supporting team; and finally an adaption to low digital literacy of most of the participants. We will insist on that question of low literacy in a dominant digital world.