Creative Measures of the Anthropocene

This book proposes that creative and participatory modes of measuring, knowing, and moving in the world are needed for coming to grips with the Anthropocene epoch. It interrogates how creative, affective and experiential encounters that traverse the local and the global, as well as the mundane and the everyday, can offer new perspectives on the challenges that lay ahead. This book considers the role of the arts in exploring geographical concerns and increasing human mobility. In doing so, it offers ways to counteract the unstable, shifting and disorienting impacts and debates surrounding human activity and the Anthropocene. The authors bring together perspectives from mobilities, creative arts, cultural geography, philosophy and humanities in an innovative exploration of how creative forms of measurement can assist in reconfiguring individual and collective action.

Traces the movements of individual experiences and collective imaginaries to reflect on the intersections of creativity, mobility and alternative forms of knowledge production Examines a series of participatory artworks and workshops, interviews and photographic material, to explore the mechanisms for generating affective and experiential modes of knowing place, measuring one's movements, and attending to the entangled nature of daily life Will appeal to a variety of academic and arts audiences, including scholars in cultural geography, mobilities, tourism, environmental humanities, creative arts, and those interested in innovative research methodologies

Autorentext

Kaya Barry is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Australia. She is a geographer and artist who investigates the intersections of everyday mobility, creativity and tourism.
Jondi Keane is an arts practitioner, critical thinker and Associate Professor at Deakin University, Australia. For more than three decades he has exhibited, performed and published in the USA, UK, Europe and Australia.

Inhalt
Chapter 1 Measure and Method.- Chapter 2 Creative Modalities.- Chapter 3 Multi-Scalar Shifts and Drifts.- Chapter 4 Affective Measures.- Chapter 5 From the Corporeal to the Imaginative.- Chapter 6 On Being Level-Headed.- Chapter 7 From the Imaginative to the Anthropocene.- Chapter 8 A Marker of Current Measures.