Contributing to a growing discourse in spatial humanities, this collection of essays provides a unique, critical insight into how place is shaped through visual and sensory practices. By looking at a range of natural, built, and digital environments, across historical and contemporary contexts, Visual Ecologies of Placemaking offers an in-depth study into place as a spatial, social and cultural construct.
Essays explore public and private spaces, cities, gardens, sacred settings and domestic scenes, and particularly consider human beings relationships to place at times when places are undergoing radical shifts due to occurrences such as global pandemics, changing climates and widespread social unrest. This timely volume features a range of case studies that explore places from storage units to city streets, performances from sacred pilgrimages to drag shows, and identities from secessionists to imperial authorities. Essays also contribute to emerging areas of inquiry, such as queer and decolonial studies and the digital humanities.
Visual Ecologies of Placemaking offers a broad examination of the performative aspects of place and identity, and yields new ways of thinking about how places are shaped and negotiated. Leslie Atzmon and Pamela Stewart's collection provides fresh and essential insights into the varied roles that place plays in our understanding and expression of the world and our place within it.
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Visual Ecologies of Placemaking brings together a rich and diverse collection of scholarly essays that open up new perspectives and deepen our understanding of placemaking. Through multiple historical, literary and practice research methods and varied approaches to visual and sensory experiences, this cross-disciplinary and important volume offers inspiration for future collaborations between art and design practices and wider fields. * Simon Woolham, Lecturer in Fine Art, University of Huddersfield, UK *
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Contributing to growing discourse in spatial humanities, this collection explores how we understand place as it is shaped through visual and sensory practices and performance.
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction, Leslie Atzmon and Pamela Stewart
Part I: Ritual and Performance
Chapter 1.1. Building the New Nazareth: Sacred History and Sacred Space at an
English Shrine, Emily Price
Chapter 1.2. Sacred and Profane: History, Power, and Consumption in Aztec
Placemaking, Kristi Peterson
Chapter 1.3. Nineteenth-century Panoramas as Virtual Placemaking, Carla
Hermann
Chapter 1.4. Creative Placemaking at Lamsons Department Store in Toledo:
Site-Specific Immersive Installation and the Recovery of Location, Locale,
and Sense of Place, Allie Terry-Fritsch
Part II: Exclusion and Appropriation
Chapter 2.5. Creating Place in the Chumash Missions of Spanish California,
Nenette Marie Arroyo
Chapter 2.6. Mapping the Neighborhood, Making Place: An Alternative Map in
Late Meiji Tokyo, Mengfei Pan
Chapter 2.7. Edge Space: Creative Engagements in a Guerilla Sculpture Garden,
Elizabeth Currans
Chapter 2.8. Morphing Spaces and Black Places: Place to Space in the Filmic
North-South, Kayci Merritté
Chapter 2.9. Between Stone and Poem: The Gendered Politics of Visual Ecology
in Early Modern China, Daniel Knorr
Part III: Recovery and Loss
Chapter 3.10. Drawing The Ring of Steel, Kate Catterall
Chapter 3.11. Narcoaesthetics: Contemporary Mexican Art and The Crisis of
Place, Monica Salazar
Chapter 3.12 The Kom-on-Inn as a Third Place: Paintings, Conversations, and
Community-creation in Duluth Minnesota, Jennifer Webb
Chapter 3.13. VISUAL ESSAY Digital Arctic: Through Machine Eyes, Carolyn
Kirschner
Chapter 3.14. Seen and Unseen: Mediated Cultural Landscapes of the Everyday
on Zoom, Ellen Christensen
Index
Leslie Atzmon is Professor of Graphic Design and Design History at Eastern Michigan University, USA.
Pamela Stewart is Assistant Professor of Art History at Eastern Michigan University, USA.
