1st Edition

Creative Engagements with Ecologies of Place Geopoetics, Deep Mapping and Slow Residencies

By Mary Modeen, Iain Biggs Copyright 2021
258 Pages 71 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 71 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 71 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores an exciting range of creative engagements with ecologies of place, using geopoetics, deep mapping and slow residency to propose broadly based collaborations in a form of ‘disciplinary agnosticism’. Providing a radical alternative to current notions of interdisciplinarity, this book demonstrates the breadth of new creative approaches and attitudes that now challenge... Read more

1. Geopoetics in context 2. Seeing, listening, acting 3. Deep mapping and slow residency 4. A call to action: reclaiming habitats through creative eco-social collaborations 5. Perception and cultural memories of place 6. Creative communities of practice: towards an ecosophical understanding of collaboration 7. Emergent practices  8. On the curation of landscapes and volcanoes 9. The slow pursuit of fidelity 10. ‘Fieldwork’, reconsidered

Biography

Mary Modeen, Associate Dean (International) and Chair of Interdisciplinary Art Practice, researches broadly across Art and Humanities at the University of Dundee. She explores perception and place-based research, connecting many concerns. As such, this research is usually interdisciplinary, appearing as both art and writing.

Iain Biggs is a former Director of the PLaCE research centre at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Dundee, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Environmental Humanities Research Centre at Bath Spa University.