1st Edition
Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in the City Ontology, Aesthetics and Ethics
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1- Introduction: Visual participatory arts-based research in the city: Outlining posthumanist approaches
Laura Trafi-Prats and Aurelio Castro-Varela
Part I: Ontologies Reorientations
Chapter 2- Relocating the cinema in the city: The case of El Solar de la Puri
Aurelio Castro-Varela
Chapter 3- Fred Herzog's affective engagements with things in the city of Vancouver
Donal O’Donoghue and Matthew Isherwood
Chapter 4- Black life and aesthetic sociality in the Subúrbio Ferroviário de Salvador, Bahia
Brais Estevez
Part II: Aesthetic Practice
Chapter 5- Lively pathways: Finding the aesthetic in everyday practice
Valerie Trigs, Michele Sorensen and Rita L. Irwin
Chapter 6- A hauntological enlivening of the Coma Cros archive through pedagogical inquiry and live performance
Judit Vidiella
Part III: Ethics of Participation
Chapter 7- The Lynden Sculpture Garden’s Call and Response Program: To wonder, encounter, and emplace through the radical Black imagination
Rina Little and Portia Cobb
Chapter 8- A poetics of opacity: Towards a new ethics of participation in gallery-based art projects with young people
Elizabeth De Freitas, Laura Trafi-Prats, David Rousell and Riikka Hohti
Epilogue: The remaking of collective life in (post)pandemic times
Laura Trafi-Prats and Aurelio Castro-Varela
Index
Biography
Laura Trafí-Prats is a Senior Lecturer of Childhood Studies and Research Methodologies at Manchester Metropolitan University. Laura’s research engages with and responds to children and young people’s sensory and material experiences in a variety of contexts including urban spaces, the natural environment and schooling.
Aurelio Castro-Varela is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Pedagogies at the University of Barcelona. His research focuses on learning environments and urban arts-based practices through a new materialist perspective. He is also a member of the research group Esbrina and postdoctoral researcher in the European project Pleasurescapes. Port Cities’ Transnational Forces of Integration
