Experimenting with creative geographic methods in The Critical Futures Visual Archive

Abstract

Responding to calls within geography to engage creative methodologies and practices, this article highlights works from a critical-creative geography exhibit, The Critical Futures Visual Archive, which formed part of a critical geographies conference in Fall 2017. The exhibit included creative works by 18 academics, artists, and activists. Contributors engaged multiple media and geographic themes to reflect on the place of creative and visual methods in geographic scholarship and to consider how creative methods might intervene in dominant modes of geographic representation. This brief reflection presents selected works from the collection – predominately those of geography graduate students – to demonstrate the various potentials of a ‘creative (re)turn’ in geographic thought and scholarship.