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On Country: Emplaced Approaches to Collaborative Community Engagement [and] ((in) Through) Mapping Processes in ‘Workshop’ Mode
Author(s) -
Gilbert Jock
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
curator: the museum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2151-6952
pISSN - 0011-3069
DOI - 10.1111/cura.12337
Subject(s) - transformational leadership , point (geometry) , space (punctuation) , sociology , set (abstract data type) , perspective (graphical) , portfolio , epistemology , event (particle physics) , architecture , paradigm shift , computer science , public relations , visual arts , history , political science , archaeology , art , programming language , operating system , philosophy , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , financial economics , economics
This piece takes as a starting point, the conceptual shift from an understanding of landscape to that of Country, reflected upon in an earlier work in this edition, through a transformational shift facilitated through the Interpretive Wonderings* mapping workshop. This shift is attended by a simultaneous shift in practice from that of participation (a seeking or inviting of engagement in the framework of the inviter) to collaboration (finding engagement in the place of the invitee such that the inviter/invitee assignation is inverted). The implications of this shift will then be explored through the role of a collaborative, emergent approach to curation within the event itself – the role of the interstitial moment arising through attention to the conception of ‘curatorial free space’ in informing a place‐based approach to the practice of landscape architecture. In conclusion, the article will outline the move to a practice which rather than adopting a curatorial point of view, seeks to establish a contingent stand point – facilitating an emplaced practice of landscape. *Editorial note: The Interpretive Wonderings Portfolio comprises a set of interrelated writings that attempt to provide a distinctive, multi‐perspectival account of this creative research project. In addition to this research piece, other articles include: a co‐authored contextual overview which situates the project in theoretical and practical terms (Drake et al. 2019a, this issue )’, a compilation of short texts that offer reflective analyses from the different perspectives of the project’s principal researchers, Sophia Pearce, Campbell Drake, Jock Gilbert and Sven Mehzoud (Drake et al. 2019b, this issue ), and an associated research‐led article by Mehzoud (2019, this issue ). Read individually, each designated article presents a focused inquiry (depth); taken together as a curated series, they provide the reader with the opportunity to gain a comprehensive overview (breadth) and appreciation of the project’s guiding aspirations, objectives and outcomes that amounts to more than the sum of its discrete parts.