Welcome
We’ve had so many things happening over the past month I am sending a second bulletin!
Thanks to everyone for sharing your work, keep it coming.
I’ve also scoured some sources of funding so please scroll down to see the details of these. If you come across any info on grants and funds that you think the network will be interested in, please let me know.
New feature: video conversations
The MFI website will soon have an additional page that showcases members of the network in a little more detail. A series of short video conversations (around 15 minutes long each) will enable you to discuss your ideas and projects, and the collection will become a useful resource for the public to access your work.
If you are interested in having a video conversation with me then please email me directly and we can arrange a time.
Events
CES Summer School – cultural mapping and connecting with place
21-25 March 2022
SILOS Contentor Criativo (Caldas da Rainha – Portugal)
This 4.5-day intensive summer school offers a unique opportunity to learn how to design and conduct cultural mapping projects, enabling participants to enhance their knowledge on cultural mapping approaches and processes, gain skills applying cultural mapping techniques in practice, examine ethics of care in this community-engaged work, and explore how to connect findings to cultural/creative tourism and local development policy. This is a unique opportunity to learn from internationally acclaimed scholars and practitioners.
Media
The recording from A Climate of Change: creative counter mapping methods for sensing place is now available from the CAST website. Scroll down for the recording on this link.
Projects
The BJJ collective was formed in 2021 by three artist-researchers living in Spain, Australia and Canada, including MFI member Juliana España Keller. Each member has, in the past year, worked to transform a plot of land into a community resource whose goal is to sustain body and spirit through the growing of food which integrates research practice-led artistic activities. As a group they are dedicated to a rich and varied collaboration – working with local communities and developing relationships that foster intersectional knowledge-sharing.
The Ediths are a feminist interdisciplinary research collective that is co-directed by MFI member Jo Pollitt. The Ediths use socially engaged creative methodologies to conduct ecologically responsive research.
Projects attend to three interrelated concerns:
1) Entwined cultural and environmental dimensions of colonisation
2) Situated Common Worlding frameworks that resist the natureculture divide
3) Expanded understandings of inclusion and belonging.
Publications
Series – Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories
This book series, edited by MFI members Karen Malone and Sonja Arndt presents original and cutting edge knowledge for a growing field of scholarship about children. Its focus is on the interface of children being in the everyday spaces and places of contemporary childhoods, and how different theoretical approaches influence ways of knowing the future lives of children. The series challenges traditional western-centric views of children and childhood by drawing on a range of perspectives including Indigenous, Pacifica, Asian and those from the Global South. The collection challenges dominant paradigms of childhood from developmental, social-constructivist, and structuralist approaches, to understanding and theorising through a variety of post-positivist/postqualitative/posthumanist theories.
Inefficient Mapping: A Protocol for Attuning to Phenomena by MFI member Linda Knight is now published by Punctum books. Punctum is an open press so you can download the PDF for free, although please donate to Punctum if you can afford to. Physical books can also be ordered through them and via Amazon.
The link to Punctum is here.
Canadian Journal of Action research. Special Issue: Action Research and Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Volume 21, Issue 3, July 2021
An open-source journal that contains an amazing collection of mapping research approaches that promote Indigenous knowledge and practice
Opportunities
Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowships
M16 Artspace Drawing Prize
Value: AUD$10,000
Victoria Libraries Fellowships
Foundwork Artist Prize
Bajo el Olivo is an experimental international residency space near Malaga, Spain. Owned by Juliana, it is dedicated to artists who are looking for a private space to think, write and create during these exceptional times we are living on this planet. This artistic retreat is designed for artists, designers, writers, and practitioners who require a thinking space for mapping strategies about our speculative future. The residency seeks participants who are seriously thinking about care, empathy, and community building while the world is earnestly searching for social political and economic change, with a posthuman approach to social engagement, social and spatial practices, and a forward thinking into the future with an affirmative ethical stance.
CLOSING SOON: Expression of Interest: MPavilion 2021 program
Expressions of interest are now open to be a part of the eighth season, taking place between 11 November 2021 and 27 March 2022. Collaborate by hosting a workshop, talk, debate, presentation, performance, installation or intervention at MPavilion.
Closing August 15th, 11.59pm
Enjoy!
– Linda Knight
Associate Professor, Early Childhood – Digital Media and Creative Practice
RMIT University
Postal address:
RMIT University, PO Box 71, Bundoora, VIC 3083
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RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present.
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