Material and Digital A/R/Tographic Explorations: Walking Matters

This book considers the generative tension between the materiality and virtuality of walking methodologies in a/r/tography and arts-based educational research. It explores the materiality of practice--manifestations, manipulations, residues, and traces of both real and imagined experiences and events. Authors present artistic representations, renderings, artifacts, and documentations that allow for various forms of return and re-visitation of places/spaces and temporal moments. The book also investigates the digital and virtual, including video, images, media work, and emergent technologies that allow one to literally, metaphorically, affectively, and conceptually go somewhere that might be previously impossible to reach. Authors consider curricular and pedagogical implications of digital/virtual walking in relation to desire, agency, autonomy, freedom, and other issues around ethics.

The book brings together entanglements of the corporeal and incorporeal, addressing thequestions: How does the (im)materiality of bodies/characters-in-motion in a/r/tographic practices shape understandings of place, space, and the self-in-relation? How do issues and particularities come to matter through one’s entanglements with(in) the (in)corporeal?

Nicole Y. S. Lee is an Assistant Professor of Art Education at NSCAD University, Canada. She completed her PhD in Curriculum Studies (specialization in Art Education) at The University of British Columbia, Canada. Layering concept, making, and embodied practices, her a/r/tographic, curricular, and philosophical research develops curricula for artful, purposeful, and meaningful living.

Marzieh Mosavarzadeh is a PhD candidate in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at The University of British Columbia, Canada, specializing in Art Education. Her a/r/tographic research explores artful, pedagogical, and speculative ways of making-place through the artistic practice of walking. Marzieh holds both her MFA and BFA in visual arts. www.marziehmosavarzadeh.com

Joanne Ursino is a PhD candidate in Cross Faculty Inquiry in the Faculty of Education at The University of British Columbia, Canada. Joanne’s work is at the cutting edges of arts-based research and auto-poetic inquiry in curriculum theory alongside a strong a/r/tographical studio practice.

Rita L. Irwin (EdD) is a Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Art Education at The University of British Columbia, Canada. She is well-known for her national and international leadership in art education and educational research associations. She is also an award-winning educator and scholar best known for her work in a/r/tography, teacher education, curriculum studies, and socio-cultural concerns.