Engaging geography

In preparation for this seminar, an email was sent out to a number of lists on 17th February 2009 to see what ‘creative public geographies’ were happening. The response was overwhelming. Below are the URLs of the work we heard about. Please send more to i.j.cook@ex.ac.uk .

The email:

[We] are starting to work on … [our] seminar in the Engaging Geography series … If you are a geographer who is involved in an ongoing, or recently finished, collaborative project with artists, film-makers, poets, and other creative professionals, and/or if you work as a geographer-artist, etc. and/or if you know of artists, etc… working on/with geographical themes, please get in touch with details, websites, etc.

The responses so far:

David Crouch’s art – John Newling’s ‘Chatham Vines’ – Bryan Finoki’s ‘Subtopia’ – ‘Wapping audio’ – ‘The other way works’ – Lisa Tucker’s ‘Santa Anna River Native Trail Food Project’ – ‘Urban earth’ – ‘Pop-up landscapes’ – Jane Hodgson’s ‘An Antipodean Expedition’ – Carbon labelling DVD – Area Chicago – Atlas of radical cartography – People’s atlas of Chicago – Maps in the public square – A conversation with Peter Fend – Chris Speed – Pervasive media lab – Mscape – Feral trade – Toby Butler’s ‘Memoryscape’ audio walks – ‘Watermarks’ project – Christian Nold’s website – Biomapping – Urban tapestries - Space synapse – The Center for Land Use Interpretation - ‘Dark places: an overt research project’ – D’log – Green museum – ‘Cape Farewell’ climate change project – The River Parrett Trail (re)visited – New eyes: creative explorations in the Blackdown Hills – Travellers Remember - 3 Rivers 2nd Nature – Bioneering: hybrid investigations of food – Helen Scalway’s ‘A patois of pattern’ – Fashioning diaspora / moving patterns – Jenni Kotting’s ‘Sound’ – Skewed Vision’s ‘Terror town’ – Michael Watts’ ‘Curse of the black gold’ – Trevor Paglen’s website – Hayden Lorimer & Kate Foster’s ‘Cross bills’ – Hayden Lorimer, Kate Foster and Merle Patchett’s ‘Blue antelope‘ – Geographers guest edit Radio 4′s ‘Today Programme’ - Making the connection: a plea to academic geographers – Making the connections: arts, migration & diaspora – Shelley Sacks’ ‘Exchange values’ – Matthew Herbert’s ‘Plat du jour’ – Melanie Jackson’s ‘A global positioning system‘ – Interdependence day – Mywalks – Placebook Scotland – Critical Spatial Practice – Walking in place – Divya Tolia-Kelly & Graham Lowe’s ‘Nurturing ecologies / maps of the known world’ – Steve Higginson’s ‘Edgy cities’ – Rachel Chapman’s ‘Mapping the Air’ - Simon Faithfull’s ‘Ice Blink’ – ‘Sailing 4 geeks: ship to shore’ – ‘Makrolab’ – Johanna Berger & Uwe Dornbusch’s pebbles – Simeon Nelson’s ‘Cryptosphere’ – Michael Mayhew’s website - ‘Liquid geography’ - Derek Hampson’s ‘Chat Moss’ – Drew Mulholland: composer in residence, Geography, Glasgow University – Leah Schreiber’s ‘Daily navigation’ – Caitlin Desilvey & Alec Finlay’s ‘Two fields of wheat seeded with a poppy-poem’ – Ultimate Holding Company – Leeds Plan B – Happidrome – Colin Sackett’s website – ‘Mumbai: liquid city’ documentary – BOSarts – Simon Pope’s ‘The memorial walks’ – Naturalists: animals & human nature – Allan Siegel’s ‘Market halls’ - Interventions in the everyday -  Subversive spaces – Landing / Visualising Geography – Weather permitting – Echoes of Blackburn Meadows - ‘Rank’: picturing the social order 1516-2009 – Worldmapper – Lauren Healey’s website – Glimmers in limbo – Wrights and sites – ‘Age of stupid’ documentary – Los Angeles Urban Rangers – Invisible-5 Audio Project – Divya Tolia-Kelly et al’s ‘An archaeology of ‘race” – Rona Lee’s ‘The truthing gap’ – Milkproject – Bradley L. Garrett’s Urban Exploration Photography – Mission Explore – Urbanity, a waste of place: images from the rural-urban fringe – The Creative Compass – Ursula Beimann’s ‘Geobodies’ - Center for PostNatural History –

Please also let us know about other ongoing projects, questions and ideas by submitting comments below: