embodied poetic methods to learn placemaking

The significance of 'place' to our lives is often overlooked, something that is hidden, nuanced and changing yet it is key to understanding who we are, both individually and collectively. Using embodied and poetic practices, underpinned with the theories of new materialism, can enable an examination, a deep mapping of our ways of making and learning place. But it can also enable the mapping of the rationalities of learning and bodies- sensation and memory that can enable a deepened understanding of materialisation and the power relations-politics of placemaking both locally and globally. In an ever-increasing globalised and homogenised world, we need to learn, understand and value the everyday individual and collective ways we make and learn situated knowledges and how it makes us. But this poetic embodied practice is not conceived as fixed or stable, it is poietic; flexible, dynamic and open, continually becoming and not a thing, object or outcome but a method to work the space between that has many possibilities and potential.

Page, T. (2019). embodied poetic methods to learn placemaking. MAI: FEMINISM & VISUAL CULTURE, Summer(4), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.17613/p05e2-0cr68

Note. First published: https://maifeminism.com/embodied-poetic-methods-to-learn-placemaking/