Abstract
ABSTRACTThis paper outlines a project drawing together an artist working on creative GIS, a geomatics scholar, an NGO leader, a rural geographer and soil scientist, an environmental geochemist, and a political geographer. With a shared interest in the social and physical processes affecting people’s lives in Malawi, and the possibilities for interdisciplinary collaboration, the team engaged in practice-based mapping of our data sources and respective methodologies. The project relates to two sites in Malawi: Tikondwe Freedom Gardens and the Likangala River. The paper details our practices as we shared, debated, and repurposed our data as a means of situating these practices and data. Using paper and pen, whiteboard, PowerPoint, and web-design software, we note here our effort to map a ‘space of experimentation’ highlighting, and reflecting on, our diverse disciplinary orientations, training, instrumentation, recording, and reporting procedures, as well as bodily practices that enable and give animation to these factors.
Highlights
Art-science collaborations are a rapidly emerging feature of academia, fuelled in large part by a perceived need to facilitate the communication of scientific findings and practices to diverse publics using a range of means and mediums (Lesen, Rogan, & Blum, 2016)
The story maps we are working on provide insights into the processes and events present at both Tikondwe Freedom Gardens and the Likangala River
What we have striven to map using this particular medium is something of the practices that are undertaken, yet often glossed, in the knowledge production process itself, insofar as these sites become knowable within particular conceptual and methodological frameworks
Summary
Art-science collaborations are a rapidly emerging feature of academia, fuelled in large part by a perceived need to facilitate the communication of scientific findings and practices to diverse publics using a range of means and mediums (Lesen, Rogan, & Blum, 2016). Uncertainty is an emotive and affective condition, prompting, as Dixon, Hawkins, and Straughan (2012) intimate, reflection on the process of knowledge production itself, such that particular narratives are articulated, and the manner in which research is practiced. This is a cognitive process, and an embodied one, supplemented. We describe aspects of these story maps as they appear on screen to the viewer.
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