Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in the City: Ontology, Aesthetics and Ethics

The book Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in the Cities explores the differences between humanist and posthumanist arts-based research, providing insight on methodological orientations to develop arts-based research with process-philosophies. It adopts a posthumanist approach to the assembled nature of urban environments, focusing on the experiences of movement, inhabitancy, interdependence, collaboration, infrastructuring, and sensorial re-calibration informed by art practices.

Format: Hardback
Length: 156 pages
Publication date: 07 April 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Visual Participatory Arts-Based Research in the Cities delves into the ontological, aesthetic, and ethical disparities between humanist and posthumanist arts-based research, offering valuable insights into methodological orientations for developing arts-based research with frameworks rooted in process-philosophies. This groundbreaking work is the first of its kind to focus specifically on arts-based research in urban contexts, adopting a posthumanist perspective on the complex and interconnected nature of urban environments. Agency is dispersed across infrastructures, technologies, spaces, things, and bodies, shaping the experiences of movement, inhabitancy, interdependence, collaboration, infrastructuring, and sensorial re-calibration.

Chapters one to seven present a series of studies situated in various cities across Europe and the Americas, showcasing the profound impact of art practices in film, photography, digital projection, installation, performance, and art as social practice on experiences of movement, inhabitancy, interdependence, collaboration, infrastructuring, and sensorial re-calibration. At the heart of this book lies the notion that aesthetic ecologies of cities are not solely shaped by human activity but also by non-logocentric modalities of collective life.

This comprehensive book serves as an invaluable resource for researchers, instructors, and graduate students in education, the social sciences, and the arts, empowering them to conceive, design, and develop innovative projects in arts-based research. By exploring the intersections of aesthetics, urbanism, and participatory practices, Visual Participatory Arts-Based Research in the Cities sheds light on the potential for arts-based inquiry to transform our understanding of cities and their inhabitants.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367462963