#arts based research

[toothpasteforever]

Work in progress - Windblown Petals, a comic about death, social responsibility and relationships

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beautiful poem encountered today by the unparalleled Mahtem Shiferraw, worked out in a panel-poem for @robotlizardbaby in these shifting, watery, fiery, emotional times

[wonderfrancis]

How Can We Help Young People Improve Their Local Environments? How Can They Become Agents of Change? (Book chapter in Ecologies of Practice and Learning)

This post introduces Ecologies in Practice and Learning: Arts Interventions in the Earth Crisis, an edited collection that brings together arts educators, practice researchers, curators and artists to explore ecological approaches to learning in a time of accelerating environmental crisis. The book is concerned with how learning happens in, with and through ecological crisis. Rather than…

How Can We Help Young People Improve Their Local Environments? How Can They Become Agents of Change? (Book chapter in Ecologies of Practice and Learning)

[wonderfrancis]

Five reasons to get young people researching their local parks

I’m feeling quietly proud, and also rather fired up, because an article I co‑authored with Anna Stewart of i2Media has just been accepted into the Goldsmiths research repository and is a chapter in a new book Ecologies in Practice and Learning, Arts Interventions in the Earth Crisis, edited by the creative and multitalented academic, Dr Miranda Matthews, who is a colleague of mine in Education at…

Five reasons to get young people researching their local parks

[culturalarchitect]

Poetry on the Hoof: Artists Knowledge (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

Poetry on the Hoof is an occasional series of short poems which are written on the hoof in response to an immediate, pressing stimulus or concern. They’re intended to be read on the hoof too: at times when you have little spare time to read and reflect, but still hopefully providing some insight into the challenges and pleasures of contemporary life. Today’s Poetry on the Hoof is written in…

Poetry on the Hoof: Artists Knowledge (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

[gettingaphdinmomo]

I literally, no lie, just referred to a dream I had in an academic essay. This is the future liberals want.

[susanyounganimation]

I’m just back from the 5th British Conference of Autoethnography, info here, Arnolfini and Mshed, Bristol Harbourside.

Highlights included discussion with speakers (pictured L to R) Jonathan Wyatt, Ken Gale, Hannah Shakespeare, Sarah Helps, Alec Grant and David Carless. Hannah is senior commissioning editor in research methods at Routledge, who’ve just published International Perspectives on Autoethnography Research and Practice (including contributions from Jonathan, Sarah, Alec and David), and Ken’s Madness as Methodology.

There were many exciting presentations, personal favourites included contributions from Travis Heath (rap as narrative therapy), Claire Williamson (poetics and suicide), Kitrina Douglas (cowboys and identity) David Jackson (war veterans and witnessing),  Joane Craviero (finding my Dad), Joan B. Williams (no-one asks, or sees),  and Russell Heywood (auto-ethno-satire). 

Overall, a wonderful event, thanks so much to the organising committee (David, Kitrina, Melissa, Andrew, Alys and Jane) and hope to see you all next year!

[merelvisse]

Keren Moskovitch just brought this exciting TEDTalk to my attention. A promising view on the intersection of philosophy and artistic practice through ‘Sense Labs’ and techniques of Relation. Watch the video: Relational soup -- philosophy, art, and activism | Brian Massumi and Eri... Thanks, Keren!