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Inefficiently mapping extinction: A research-creation, practice-led approach to visualising biodiversity loss

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: We are living climate change. The unchecked acceleration of globalisation, colonisation, and extractivism create a world in dire need of change if we are to survive. Crucial now, are critical, geopolitical, and biopolitical discussion and an urgent need for diverse methodologic and pedagogic strategies for action across micro to macro scales. Research-creation, practice-led approaches to action, that work across and with artistic practice, scientific data, and critical and cultural theory can spark activist pedagogic experiences for change. The effective potential of such methodologies is explored via inefficient mapping; a counter-mapping, methodologic protocol, and its use in ‘Mapping Extinction’, a project into the catastrophic biodiversity loss due to the 2019/2020 Australian bushfires. The protocols and visual works produced facilitate discussion on creative practice as educational research into the real impacts of climate change.

Source: Research in Education

DOI: 10.1177/00345237231200623

Author: Linda Knight

Institution: RMIT University

Language: English

Topic: Artistic and Creative Research

Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Life on land, Climate action, Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,000