Members of this research theme work to inform and shape debates and new directions in cultural, urban and historical geography through theoretically innovative and critically engaged research that has strong interdisciplinary links with humanities subjects and often involves collaborators beyond the academy, including activists, museums and arts organizations.
We treat creativity and collaboration as a research method, a set of principles and an ethics of engagement that challenges epistemic relationships of power and pedagogy, and extends thinking into worlds of practice, creativity and multi-media presentation. We work with and through creative industries and the city, public geographies and public intellectuals, artist-activist and scholar-activist entanglements, and communal and virtual forms of public engagement.
Our research is shaping international debates in three key areas.