Geography and art: encountering place across disciplines

Abstract

This paper summarises a project undertaken at the Newton Park campus of Bath Spa University over one week in October 2015. The project provided a space for interdisciplinary collaborations between geography and art students to explore the commonalities and differences in how they saw, interpreted, and creatively represented the campus, using a variety of methods. This paper outlines the project and reflects on the processes, outcomes, and challenges of collaboration. It highlights how this approach can enhance student learning experiences, by facilitating more interdisciplinary collaboration across the sciences, arts and humanities, and social sciences. In doing so, it explores the potential and pitfalls of collaborative cultural geography in practice across disciplines.

Performing Social Media: Artistic Approaches to Analyzing Big Data

“…Collaborations between geographers and artists reveal "how seemingly disparate things are pieced together […] and gathers coherence or momentum" (Foster and Lorimer 2007, 427). Such collaborations have been extensive and proven to be of great value in the development of both artistic and geographical knowledge (Schaaf, Worrall-Hood, and Jones 2017). Various forms of art are utilised in such collaborations, including performance art (Roe and Buser 2016), exhibitions (Young and Kelly 2017), and poetry (Jones and Jam 2016;Philo 2017).…”