Creative Engagements With Ecologies of Place : Geopoetics, Deep Mapping and Slow Residencies
- Submitting institution
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University of Dundee
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 51848023
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780367545758
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This publication is the output of an extended time period of Modeen’s leadership and engagement with ecologies of place demonstrated in a number of research networks, symposia and conferences from 2010 to the present. Conferences organised and led by Modeen that align with landmarks in the publication’s evolution include: the Vibrant Matters Conference, the ‘Matter Matters’ Conference, Being in Place: The Highs and Lows of Sited Practices, and the Cross-Multi-Inter-Trans Conference. The publication evidences extensive multi-layered research in perception, place-based theory, feminism, indigenous studies, leading to multiple perspectives and critical review of creative practices from around the world.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Creative Engagements with Ecologies of Place: Geopoetics, Deep Mapping and Slow Residencies, published by Routledge (2020), is co-authored by Modeen and Biggs, each contributing 50%. The book explores a comprehensive range of interdisciplinary creative practices concerned with ecologies of place, investigating how geopoetics and deep mapping are emergent research methods, and how slow residencies establish long-term environmental study and interventions, to propose ‘disciplinary agnosticism’ as a form of broadly-based collaborations.
The book proposes a radical alternative to current notions of interdisciplinarity, demonstrating how new creative methods, approaches and attitudes are challenging assumptions of the solitary genius and a culture of ‘possessive individualism’, through a detailed critical review of perception and the impact of culture and memory.
Building on Modeen’s established research in perception, place-based theory, indigenous studies, and creative practices inflected with literature, philosophy, history, and psychology, the book takes a deliberately inclusive approach with multiple perspectives, drawing widely on differing creative approaches, and contrasting ways in which both visual art and the concept of the artist are shifting through current engagement with ecologies of place. Drawing on examples from across the world–dedicated chapters present established practices in the UK, Australia and USA, and emergent global practices. The 70 visual examples and text offer an expansive view of ensemble creative undertakings, promoting a reactivation of art’s relationship to place and altering perceptions of relational being, thereby transforming the role of the artist.
This book’s audience includes artists, art educators, environmental activists, ecologists, cultural geographers, place-based philosophers, postgraduates and will have a substantial impact on all those concerned with the revivification of place through creative work in the twenty-first century. Its licences and distribution are global; critical readers’ reports in selection for publication have been enthusiastic for its breadth of approach.
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- Non-English
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