Anticipating Deep Mapping: Tracing the Spatial Practice of  Tim Robinson

Smith, Jos

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“…The art workshop integrated narrative audiovisual learning methods, utilising artist's books (Kealy-Morris, 2013) and soundscapes (Dunn, 1999;Sterling, 2014). Deep mapping techniques (Smith, 2015;Roberts, 2016) were also employed to present a more holistic sustainability vision, transcending conventional text limitations. The workshops involved visually deep mapping the island and capturing its soundscape, culminating in an art exhibition as the final presentation for the island SDGs workshop.…”

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Island Art Sustainability Education: A case study of Osakikamijima, Japan

Qu,

Zollet,

Chiya

2024

Shima

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Although both arts education and community sustainability are very important topics for island communities, there is a dearth of academic research on the use of artistic activities to support sustainable island development. In this research, Osakikamijima, a depopulating Japanese island that the Japanese government is trying to rebrand as 'education island', was used as a case study on education on sustainability through the arts. The article employs participatory action research in the form of a 3-day art workshop collaboration between an international middle school, two universities and island residents. Students engaged in sustainability-focused deep mapping exercises, followed by the creation of artist’s books and island soundscapes, to explore how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relate to the island's challenges. The findings reveal that deep mapping enhances students' understanding of the island's interwoven sustainability issues, allowing them to creatively express local knowledge. Despite challenges, these arts-based educational activities foster students' creativity and divergent thinking. Furthermore, the use of an approach combining field studies and art education appears to be more impactful than traditional teaching methods, offering a practical example of how art can strengthen sustainability education on islands and contribute to their revitalisation.

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Section: Shima Volume 18 Number 1 2024 -74 -mentioning

confidence: 99%

Island Art Sustainability Education: A case study of Osakikamijima, Japan

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Zollet,

Chiya

2024

Shima

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“…We consider the field of deep mapping, as an archaeological, geo-social and ethnographically-informed art research practice which offers opportunities to generate representations that 'dive into' the heterogeneity and non-aligned multiplicity of place Smith, 2015). Deep maps embrace, as their starting point, the tensions that exist between incompatible narratives and between one slice of time and the next.…”

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The Call of The Post-Industrial Edgelands

Humphris

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CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1.0 Palimpsests 1.1 Background and motivation for the study 1.2 Research Questions 1.3 Theoretical Framework 1.4 Research approach and methodology 1.5 Research context: post-industrial Glasgow 1.6 Overview of Chapters and artistic research outputs CHAPTER 2 Edgelands of practice: Post-industrial landscapes and the conditions of informal spatial appropriation 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The post-industrial landscape and its informal production: A framework for investigation 2.3 Methodology: a multi-modal exploration 2.4 The unseen, unregulated and unplanned in action: an empirical assessment 2.5 Socio-spatial insights on post-industrial brownfields 2.6 Conclusion Artistic research output 1: Govan Deep Map CHAPTER 3 'Getting Deep into Things': Deep Mapping in a 'Vacant' Landscape 3.1 Openings 3.2 The arts-research approach of deep mapping 3.3 Methodology 3.4 Uncoverings: reflections on a deep mapping method in practice 3.5 Conclusions CHAPTER 4 Planning in a place of co-becoming: Informal and more-than-human placemaking in Scottish vacant land policy

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‘Getting Deep into Things’: Deep Mapping in a ‘Vacant’ Landscape

Humphris

Horlings

Biggs

2021

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Areas in cities typically denoted as ‘Vacant and Derelict Land’ are frequently presented in policy documents as absent of meaning and awaiting development. However, visits to many of these sites offer evidence of abundant citizen activity occurring outside of planning policy. Dog walkers, DIY skatepark builders, pigeon fanciers and reminiscing former factory workers, for example, can all be found inscribing their own narratives, in palimpsest like fashion, upon these landscapes. This spatio-temporally bound and layered mix of contested meanings extend beyond representational capacity offered by traditional cartographic methods as employed in policy decision-making. Such a failure to represent these ecologies of citizen-led practices often results in their erasure at the point of formal redevelopment. In this chapter, we explore how one alternative approach may respond to these challenges of representation through a case study project in Glasgow, Scotland. Deep mapping is an ethnographically informed, arts research practice, drawing Cifford Geertz’s notion of ‘thick description’ into a visual-performative realm and seeking to extend beyond the thin map by creating multifaceted and open-ended descriptions of place. As such, deep maps are not only investigations into place but of equal concern are the processes by which representations of place are generated. Implicit in this are questions about the role of the researcher as initiator, gatherer, archivist or artist and the intertwining between the place and the self. As a methodological approach that embraces multiplicity and favours the ‘politicized, passionate, and partisan’ over the totalizing objectivity of traditional maps, deep mapping offers a potential to give voice to marginalized, micro-narratives existing in tension with one another and within dominant meta-narratives but also triggers new questions over inclusivity. This methodologically focused chapter explores the ways in which an ethnographically informed, arts research practice may offer alternative insight into spaces of non-aligned narratives. The results from this investigation will offer new framings of spaces within the urban landscape conventionally represented as vacant or empty and generate perspectives on how art research methods may provide valuable investigative tools for decision-makers working in such contexts. The deep mapping work is available to view at http://www.govandeepmap.com.

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Anticipating Deep Mapping: Tracing the Spatial Practice of Tim Robinson

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Island Art Sustainability Education: A case study of Osakikamijima, Japan

Island Art Sustainability Education: A case study of Osakikamijima, Japan

The Call of The Post-Industrial Edgelands

‘Getting Deep into Things’: Deep Mapping in a ‘Vacant’ Landscape

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