Julie Crawshaw - Art Worlding

Art Worlding

Tracing the associations between artists, planners and engineers with and within the materials of our environment, this book introduces the relational theory of art worlding as a way of coming to know our organic continuity.

Through a series of sculptural ethnographies of the making and doing of art in urban and rural contexts, the author re-orientates the art-planning relationship in recognition of art practice as a mode of inquiry and way of knowing. Methodologically innovative, the book traces public art as practice and integrates artistic practice within planning research. Inspired by the classical pragmatism of John Dewey, the fieldwork illuminates the opportunity afforded by the art planning relationship in understanding relational continuity at differing scales. It introduces a new paradigm for the field of public art and for art and planning practice more broadly. Art Worlding: Planning Relations will appeal to sociologists and social anthropologists with interests in art, as well as artists and art scholars, and those working in the fields of urban and rural planning, urban regeneration, art and ecology, curating, public art, and cultural management.

Julie Crawshaw is Senior Lecturer in Arts at Northumbria University, UK, and co-editor of Towards a City Observatory: Constellations of Art, Collaboration and Locality .

Series Editor: Martyn Hudson, Northumbria University

The sociological imagination of modernity is entangled with our senses and, primarily, with vision, yet the process of being able to see something is often extraordinarily complex. Marxs attempt to visualise commodities, Durkheim on totems of religious life, Simmel on money and the metropolis, Elias on social taste, are all projects which attempt to see beyond the empirical and into levels of abstraction and immateriality that lie beyond the senses. Visualisation is part of the making of modernity and a response to it.

This series explores and elaborates upon our experiences of modernity. It offers ways of seeing from the margins of our world and from its exemplary sites of industry and urbanisation. Grand narratives of human history mix with micro-histories that are embedded across our globe. Using multi-disciplinary methods, it seeks to expand upon our knowledge of global and local visual cultures, whether in architecture, painting, photography, theatre, film and other cultural forms. Examining the material and the tangible as well as the immaterial and the imaginary it aims to offer the best of sociological thinking and thought: literally re-visioning our social world.

Visual Modernities welcomes new studies that have visualisation at their heart and embed new ways of perceiving our shared world and our multiple and complex experience of modernity. It seeks to publish works that are innovative, multi-disciplinary in scope and which challenge and rupture the classical social sciences with new ways of looking at method, theory and our social futures.

Titles:

Pandemics, Authoritarian Populism, and Science Fiction

Medicine, Military, and Morality in American Film

Jeremiah Morelock

Visualising Worlds

World-Making and Social Theory

Martyn Hudson

Art Worlding

Planning Relations

Julie Crawshaw

Art Worlding

Planning Relations

Julie Crawshaw

First published 2022

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Crawshaw, Julie, author.
Title: Art worlding : planning relations / Julie Crawshaw.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2022. | Series: Visual modernities | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021040882 (print) | LCCN 2021040883 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367495695 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367495879 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003046752 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Artists and community. | Public art. | Artists--Professional relationships. | Planners--Professional relationships. | Engineers--Professional relationships.
Classification: LCC N72.A76 C73 2022 (print) | LCC N72.A76 (ebook) | DDC 700.1/03--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021040882
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021040883

ISBN: 9780367495695 (hbk)

ISBN: 9780367495879 (pbk)

ISBN: 9781003046752 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781003046752

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As a fellow of the Sustainable Consumption Institutes Centre for Doctoral Training the research starts from my PhD research at the University of Manchester which was supervised by Professor Albena Yaneva at Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC) and Dr Joanne Tippett in Planning and Landscape. The project then progresses through two post-doctoral positions: firstly in the fine art department of Newcastle University, through an inter-disciplinary knowledge exchange project called Northumbria Exchanges (PI: Eric Cross), which was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/K002678/1); and then Valand Academy University of Gothenburg, through a curatorial project called Stretched: Expanding Notions of Artistic Practice via Artist-Led Cultures (PI: Jason E Bowman) which was funded by the Swedish Research Council.