Short description:

This edited collection brings together arts educators, practice researchers, curators and artists to explore ecological approaches to learning, gathering awareness and assembling protest in times of Earth crisis. Each chapter contributes new understandings of different arts processes that have the potential for enabling lifelong and future-changing reparative interventions. Readers are encouraged in their own regenerative creative processes, by authors who have developed ecologies in practice research in universities, with schools, with visitors to theatres, gallery and museum audiences, and arts practice in community settings. The book intends to assist equitable educational practice in environments that have been compromised, and increasingly devastated, by the effects of the Anthropocene. It will be of interest to academics, practitioners and students developing ecological arts projects.

Miranda Matthews is an artist educator and researcher who has directed the Centre for Arts and Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK,  for several years. Miranda co-chairs the Goldsmiths Practice Research Group, and is an editor for the International Journal of Art and Design Education. 

Long description:

This edited collection brings together arts educators, practice researchers, curators and artists to explore ecological approaches to learning, gathering awareness and assembling protest in times of Earth crisis. Each chapter contributes new understandings of different arts processes that have the potential for enabling lifelong and future-changing reparative interventions. Readers are encouraged in their own regenerative creative processes, by authors who have developed ecologies in practice research in universities, with schools, with visitors to theatres, gallery and museum audiences, and arts practice in community settings. The book intends to assist equitable educational practice in environments that have been compromised, and increasingly devastated, by the effects of the Anthropocene. It will be of interest to academics, practitioners and students developing ecological arts projects.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Participatory Arts Methods for Climate Research with Young People.- Chapter 3: Using Creative Research Methodologies to Support Young People to Research Their Local Parks and Improve Their Ecologies.- Chapter 4: Ecologies of CARE: Reflecting on an Erasmus+ Research Project.- Chapter 5: Entangled Encounters: The Reach-ability of Practice Research Through the Pedagogical Pause.- Chapter 6: Looking, Listening and Listening to Looking: Aesthetic Imaginaries in Collaborative Studio Practices.- Chapter 7: How Can Artful Learning Help Young People in the Context of the Earth Crisis?.- Chapter 8: Artisteacher Network: Where We Work.- Chapter 9: Residents.- Chapter 10: Forest of the Imagination and the Living Tree.- Chapter 11: Art?s Waste.- Chapter 12: A Seed Towards Regenerative Filmmaking.- Chapter 13: Practice What You Preach: The Importance of Action vs Topic in Eco-Theatre.- Chapter 14: Diasporic Ecologies.- Chapter 15: A Space for Ecology: An Exploration of the Role Art and Design Education Can Play in Supporting Environmental and Ecological Issues.- Chapter 16: Collaborative Pedagogies for Ecologies in Practice.- Chapter 17: Teal Games: Embodied Approaches to Ecological Understanding in Higher Education.- Chapter 18: Cosmopedagogies: Individuation, Ecology and Instauring Cosmicities.- Chapter 19: Aesthoecology and the Earth Crisis: At the Intersection of Aesthetics, Ecology and Ethics.- Chapter 20: Conclusions.