placemaking. abenture, a series

abenture is a visual and relational composition created by a group of young children in the bushland bordering their home. Rather than representing place or explaining play, the series enacts a co-compositional practice of learning-with: through movement, gesture, joke, scratch, and pause. This is not ‘adventure’ as linear progress, but abenture as feminist placemaking- improvised, partial, affective, and relational. The images are not illustrations of rural childhood, but traces of encounters with place as collaborators. In work resists the pull to explain or translate, instead holding open the tensions of refusal, interruption, and relational presence. The children do not narrate; they show, share, move, mark. We do tidy this up. We with the mess. It listens with atmosphere. This is research as co-composition, where place is not a container but an entangled participant in the ongoing work of being, becoming, and making-with.

Page, T. placemaking. abenture, a series. https://doi.org/10.17613/22gs4-q6861