A collection of thoughtful and incisive examinations of how we interact and engage with the visual elements of our environments.
In our everyday lives, we navigate a vast sea of visual imagery. Yet we rarely consider systematically how or why we derive meaning from this sea of the visual. Nor do we typically contemplate the effect it has on our motivations and actions as individuals and collectives. Visual Futures provides a new lens through which to analyze and challenge established perspectives, norms, and practices surrounding the visual.
This edited collection ruminates on how visuality and the visual provoke a new kind of cultural exchange and explores the relationships, intersections, and collisions between visuality and visual practices and one (or a combination) of the following: embodiment, spatial literacy, emerging languages, historical reflection, educative practices, civic development, and social development.
Edited by:
Tracey Bowen,
Brett Caraway
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 244mm,
Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781789384468
ISBN 10: 178938446X
Pages: 182
Publication Date: 15 December 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Chapter 1 - See and see again: mapping the fractures in visual culture Brett Caraway and Penny Kinnear Chapter 2 - In between Whiteness: Pierre Bourdieu and Rudolph Valentino, an unlikely pairing Elizabeth Peden Chapter 3 - Ink to inkling: Artful messages in the visuals of biology Charudatta Navare Chapter 4 - Visualizing gentrification: Resistance and reclamation through the writing on the walls Tracey Bowen Chapter 5 - Intentional viewing: Decoding, learning, and creating culturally relevant architecture Matthew Dudzik & Marilyn Corsen Whitney Chapter 6 - Visualizing art-science entanglements for more habitable futures Kylie Caraway Chapter 7 - Seeing, sensing and surrendering the inside: Expressions of the adolescent self in a ‘structured illustrative disclosure’ Edie Lanphar and Phil Fitzsimmons Chapter 8 - Picturing the state of visual literacy initiatives today Dana Statton Thompson Chapter 9 - Afterforward: To visualize the future is political work Danielle Taschereau Mamers
Tracey Bowen has a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Her research is situated at the intersection of contemporary hieroglyphics, social justice and visual communications. She teaches in the areas of visual rhetoric as well as experiential education and her research has been published in Visual Communications, Studies in Art Education, Metaphor and Symbol, Studies in Higher Education and Higher Education Research and Development. Brett Caraway obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin before coming to the University of Toronto where he teaches and researches economics, Marxian theory and sustainability. His research has been published in Environmental Communication, Communication Theory, Information, Communication & Society, Media, Culture & Society and the International Journal of Communication.
