Book chapter
Lively pathways: finding the aesthetic in everyday practice
Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in the City: Ontology, Aesthetics and Ethics, pp.73-88
Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City, Routledge
2022
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Abstract
This chapter offers discussion of a pedagogical assignment used in a variety of university postsecondary education curriculum courses. The assignment promotes an aesthetic involvement of the students with the city through art and writing with the aim of attending to “what they have not previously noticed”, and thereby fostering a view of aesthetics as relational, affective and atmospheric. Located in the Canadian cities of Regina and Vancouver, the authors discuss their relation to them through Timothy Morton’s concept of agrilogistics. Agrilogistics refers to an extractive and mechanistic logic that manipulates environments at a distance and that functions as a matter of fact in the management of the land. The assignment requires students to take photographs from different angles of whatever it is that reveals itself to them in the city. The realm of the aesthetic is an enfoldment that allows the incubation of varying variations.
Details
- Title
- Lively pathways: finding the aesthetic in everyday practice
- Creators
- Valerie TriggsMichele SorensenRita L Irwin
- Publication Details
- Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in the City: Ontology, Aesthetics and Ethics, pp.73-88
- Series
- Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Number of pages
- 216
- Identifiers
- 991013102513302368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter