Experimental Geographies Workshop (event for SoGE academics, researchers and DPhil students)
This day-long workshop will explore how the verb ‘to experiment’ has been taken up in a range of contexts, catalysed different methodological approaches, and expanded the collection of what we consider to be geographical ‘outputs’. No longer understood as an activity that is confined to the laboratory (if it ever was), we will explore the ways in which certain spaces (from the city, to the kitchen, to the atmosphere) have come under scrutiny in explicitly experimental terms. Equally, a range of creative impulses in the discipline has come to the fore under the banner of ‘experimental geographies’, resulting in an ever-expanding collection of outputs (from storytelling, to data visualisation, to film). In light of this ‘turn’ to experimentation, then, questions around the status and value (however understood) of such experiments come to the fore. In particular, we hope to think through the vexed question of success and failure of such alternative, wild, or possibly ethico-aesthetic experiments.
Date: 8 January 2018, 10:30 (Monday, 0th week, Hilary 2018)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Speakers: Angela Last (University of Leicester), Tim Schwanen (Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford), Thomas Jellis (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford), Marcus Doel (University of Swansea), Derek McCormack (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford), Daniel Bos (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford), Simon Marvin (University of Sheffield), Jamie Lorimer (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford), Gillian Rose (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford), Catharina Landstrom (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford), Alexander Vasudevan (School of Geography and the Environment)
Organising department: School of Geography and the Environment
Organisers: Gillian Rose (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford), Daniel Bos (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford), Thomas Jellis (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/1ae13393-143c-4482-9f95-562d1d9de735/
Cost: Free
Audience: By invitation only - RSVP by the end of November 2017 to secure your place.
Editors: Helen Morley, Donna Palfreman