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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Researching Rural Housing: With an Artist in Residence
Contributor:
Gkartzios, Menelaos;
Crawshaw, Julie
Published:
Wiley, 2019
Published in:
Sociologia Ruralis, 59 (2019) 4, Seite 589-611
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1111/soru.12224
ISSN:
1467-9523;
0038-0199
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This article presents a unique amalgam across artistic research and rural sociology. We draw on a collaborative art residence programme between a University and an arts organisation in England, which invited an artist to respond to a highly contentious topic in rural England: housing development. The ambition for the residency was, firstly, to provide new perspectives on rural housing research, and, secondly, to provide a space for engagement between the local community, planners and academics. Through our interdisciplinary collaboration, we explore how Sander Van Raemdonck’s artistic process worked towards these ambitions. The artistic practice involved a walk with the local community, a <jats:italic>peripatos</jats:italic>, in a post‐industrial site proposed for housing development. Drawing on the artistic practice, the interdisciplinary team developed then a second walk, a ‘walkshop’, to mediate between housing/planning experts and reflect on the experience of the artistic practice. Following those artists and social scientists that already utilise walking as a method, we argue that the artistic <jats:italic>peripatos </jats:italic>can support a multi‐sensory way of communicating, a way to get ‘under the skin of a place’. More critically, we argue that artist in residence programmes provide rich opportunity to develop interdisciplinary research <jats:italic>with </jats:italic>artists.</jats:p>