Art

@article{nokey,

title = {Investigating and imagining human-nature-technology relationships through dance},

author = {Julia Rijssenbeek and Aafke Fraaije},

url = {https://www.esdit.nl/wp-content/uploads/inscriptions.260.inscriptions8_1_Rijssenbeek-1.pdf},

doi = {doi.org/10.59391/fbbztk90},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-15},

urldate = {2025-01-15},

journal = {Inscriptions},

volume = {8},

number = {1},

abstract = {An increasingly popular response to Western thinking about human dominance over nature is posthumanism. Rather than addressing the challenges of anthropocentrism by focusing on yet another grand perspective in response to it, we propose that environmental philosophers engage in arts-based research to reflect on how to relate differently to non-human life and our environment. This article explores how arts-based research, particularly dance-based methods, can enhance environmental philosophers’ moral imagination in rethinking human-environment relations. It discusses the dance film Cobalt (2024) as a case study to explore how embodied movement can explore the human-environment relationship beyond verbal discourse, leading to expressive and imaginative responses. Screenings of Cobalt in academic settings engaged participants in discussions that revealed diverse interpretations, demonstrating the film’s potential to challenge dominant perspectives on human-environment relationships and to foster the moral imagination essential for addressing current environmental crises.},

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@article{nokey,

title = {Capturing the Sun: Solarpunk and the Elite Capture of Imagination},

author = {Alessio Gerola and Zoë Robaey},

url = {https://www.esdit.nl/wp-content/uploads/04.Gerola_Robaey_CdY_XII_2_202455-66.pdf},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.15160/2282-5460/2928},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-12-31},

urldate = {2024-12-31},

journal = {CY online},

volume = {XII},

number = {2},

abstract = {The climate emergencies of the last few years are making increasingly clear that unless the destructive and exploitative structures that support modern standards of living are dismantled and transformed, the future shall be a very hot and desolate one. Science fiction has offered a venue to reflect and envision possible futures in ways that engage our imagination and stimulate technological innovation. We argue that imagination can be understood as a collective capability that supports forms of resistance and resilience. This framing enables us to examine the consequence of the existence of power asymmetries, which may distort the potential of imagination to be a source of transformative change. To make our case, we reflect on solarpunk as a contemporary art and activism movement that envisions hopeful futures of ecological living. We argue that, as a subversive imaginary, solarpunk may be affected by processes of elite capture that could stifle its radical potential, particularly in relation to its visual identity. By reflecting on two emblematic cases, we illustrate how imagination can be captured in ways that damage its political potential. Our contribution shows that even well-intentioned or apparently innocuous uses of forms of imagination and imaginaries can have reactionary political consequences that normalize and neutralize narratives in support of radical change. Analyzing the risk of capture of sustainable future imaginaries such as solarpunk is relevant for the study of the multiple narratives, visual, literary, and academic, that are at play in public debates on the sustainability transition and climate change mitigation and adaptation, and their political consequences.},

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@article{Bühr2024,

title = {Picturing finitude: Photography of mountain glaciers as a multiple practice of dealing with environmental loss},

author = {Lorina Bühr},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/09632719231221843},

doi = {10.1177/09632719231221843},

issn = {0963-2719},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-15},

urldate = {2024-01-15},

journal = {Environmental Values},

abstract = {In recent years, photographs and visualisations of glacier retreat have become emblematic images of climate change and its ecological consequences. This paper presents glacier photography as a subtype of environmental photography. I argue that photographs and photographic projects that focus on glacial retreat are best conceived not only as strategies for proving climate change or as visual rhetoric for social transformation, but also as a practice that potentially plays an integral role in dealing and coping with human-induced environmental loss. To this end, I draw on praxeological accounts in theory of photography and philosophy of art as well as some exemplary photographic projects to develop a framework to analyse glacier photography. With the help of this praxeological framework, multiple orientations in glacier photography are identified: epistemic, aesthetic, emotional and evocative, social, ethical, and political orientations. All these photographic orientations, I argue, point in their own way to the process and consequences of glacial disappearance and loss. The framework presented innovatively brings together scholarship on climate change visualisation, imagery and art, the theory of photography, and philosophical aesthetics.},

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@article{Fraaije2023,

title = {Creating room for citizen perspectives in ‘smart city’ Amsterdam through interactive theatre},

author = {Aafke Fraaije and Marjoleine van der Meij and Arnold Vermeeren and Frank Kupper and Jacqueline Broerse},

doi = {10.14324/rfa.07.1.05},

issn = {2399-8121},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-05-23},

urldate = {2023-05-23},

volume = {7},

number = {1},

publisher = {UCL Press},

abstract = {The ‘smart city’ vision is popular, but it lacks citizen perspectives. The aim of this study was to gain insight into whether and how art-based citizen engagement can create more room for citizen perspectives in smart cities by developing and testing an art-based citizen engagement project in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. To that end, a combination of interactive theatre, interaction design and social research methods was used to bring together diverse publics and innovation professionals for joint exploration of increased dataveillance in cities. The events were studied through observations, and through interviews with participants and organisers. Data analysis was guided by the outcomes, processes and challenges of the responsible innovation dimensions: inclusion, reflexivity, anticipation and responsiveness (Stilgoe et al., 2013). The most important achievements of art-based citizen engagement were: engaging people who would not have engaged with the topic otherwise, encouraging participants to question common phrases and assumptions, exploring future social implications of technologies, and staging meaningful interactions between citizens and professionals. The most significant challenge was to involve citizens in a way that could influence innovation trajectories.},

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