Abstract

This review of the book Visual Participatory Arts Based Research In The City: Ontology, Aesthetics and Ethics, edited by Laura Trafí-Prats and Aurelio Castro-Varela, brings together contributions that continue and are part of the tradition of urban STS studies, and highlights the most original contributions that artistic research brings with it: fundamentally, art as a medium and device for sensitising bodies through aesthetic experiences that make contemporary urban problems tangible; and art as a creative and affirmative act, experimental and speculative in nature, which helps to re-imagine the city from subaltern and historically marginalised visions.

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