Call for papers

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference 2015

Wednesday 2 to Friday 4 September 2015, Exeter, UK

Attentive Geographies: materials, processes, creations (sponsored by SCGRG and HPGRG)

Session Conveners:

Fran Rylands, Rose Ferraby and Nicola Thomas, University of Exeter

Abstract:

The creative turn in Geography has cemented the long-standing relationships between geography and creative practitioners. Creative geographies are no longer studied as a product, instead practices are attentively shaping our learning, doing and knowing. This call for papers responds to this shift in geographers working and developing their capacities with a variety of creative methods, skills and approaches.

‘Attentive geographies’ calls for contributions that explore the tensions, challenges and opportunities of creative practice as research process. What happens when you commit to deepening and developing skill? What emerges when the subject of research, becomes methodology? What is gained by undertaking creative geographies by doing? What difference does the practical doing make? How does collaboration emerge through creative methodologies? What does it mean to be a geographer as practitioner?

Contributions might respond to:

• Methods of attentive practice
• Relations with materials and making
• Paying attention to collaborative relations
• Stories of working with things
•  Attentive impact 
• Small scale changes through attentive encounters
• Experimentation and working with research in process
• Exploration of skills / expanding understandings of practice
• Small stories and attentiveness to geographical concerns through practice
• The spatial relations of research practice
• Communicating process, practice and experience
• Embodiment, haptic knowledges, sensory engagements

If you are interested in participating in this session please submit your presentation abstract / proposal by Thursday 12^th February Fran, Rose and Nicola.

Fran Rylands: [log in to unmask] 

Rose Ferraby: [log in to unmask]

Nicola Thomas: [log in to unmask]

If you would like to develop an alternative format for your presentation please get in touch by email.

Please include the following information:

Title (maximum 15 words)

Abstract (200 words)

Author(s) Name, affiliation, email address

If you have joint authors please indicate who will present for scheduling purposes.

If you have non-standard AV requirements please let us know.

Information about the conference can be found at: 

http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Annual+international+conference.htm