How can hybrid forms of image-making invoke a shared radical imagination to respond to our climate emergency?

In the West, the arts have played a distinctive role in enabling the fiction of our current perceptions of ecology; one where human mastery of the planet has been mythologised through the production of images. These artistic myths at one level separate us from nature, while also paradoxically, seeking to establish deep, meaningful connections between the human species and planetary ecology. This fiction has evolved through the development of photography, film-making, advertising and capitalism. Addresses arts responsibility to generate new ways of imagining a response to our urgent ecological circumstance, the research advances new forms of image-making that challenge the ways we
understand and engage “Nature” (the nonhuman world). Its method will employ the host researcher’s concept of the ‘radical imagination’ as a tool that can account for diverse, nonhuman, ways of seeing the world. Expected Outcomes: This interdisciplinary project will result in a filmwork, exhibition and written research paper

Faculty Supervisor:

Max Haiven

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Partner:

University of Sunderland

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other; Sustainability & the Environment; Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

Lakehead University

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