Book review of Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in The City: Ontology, Aesthetics and Ethics

(Eds. Trafí-Prats, L. & Castro-Varela, A., 2022)

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https://doi.org/10.1344/jnmr.v8.43461

Abstract

This review of the book Visual Participatory Arts Based Research In The City: Ontology, Aesthetics and Ethics, edited by Laura Trafí-Prats and Aurelio Castro-Varela, brings together contributions that continue and are part of the tradition of urban STS studies, and highlights the most original contributions that artistic research brings with it: fundamentally, art as a medium and device for sensitising bodies through aesthetic experiences that make contemporary urban problems tangible; and art as a creative and affirmative act, experimental and speculative in nature, which helps to re-imagine the city from subaltern and historically marginalised visions.

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Author Biography

Blanca Callén Moreu, Autonomous University of Barcelona

PhD in Social Psychology (UAB, 2010). Associate lecturer on the Psychology degree at the UVIC-UCC and UAB, and member of the CareNet research group (UOC). She has been postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Science Studies (Lancaster University, 2012-2014). Working on the area of Social Studies of Science and Technology and collective political action, she has focused on material cultures and community responses to the ecosocial crisis. More recently, she has been doing research about (electronic) waste and cultures of repair in a context of climate crisis. She is also co-founder and member of Restarters BCN association.

References

Farías & Sánchez-Criado (forthcoming). Cities: stories of urban STS. Editorial: TBD.

Harney, S. & Moten, F. (2013). The undercommons: fugitive planning and black study. New York: Minor Compositions.

Latour, B. & Aït-Touati, F. (2019). Moving Earths. Conférence-performance.

Latour, B. & Weibel, P. (2002). Iconoclash beyond the image wars in science, religion and art. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Latour, B. & Weibel, P. (2005). Making things public. Atmosphere of Democracy. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Rancière, J. (2009). El reparto de lo sensible. Chile: LOM

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Published

2023-07-31

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Vol. 8 (2023): Eighth issue

Section

Affecting Affirmative Reviews

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