Transforming embodied experiences of academic conferences through creative practice: Participating in an instant choir at the nordic geographers’ meeting in 2019

Parks, Jude, Cassidy, Kathryn, Currie, Ruth, Doughty, Karolina, Clark, George Edward, Gombay, Nicole, Duffy, Michelle, Barry, Kaya and Ryan, Anne Wally (2022) Transforming embodied experiences of academic conferences through creative practice: Participating in an instant choir at the nordic geographers’ meeting in 2019. Cultural Geographies, 29 (2). pp. 317-324. ISSN 1474-4740

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Abstract

This paper stems from cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration between community music and human geography which sought to interrogate and understand claims of social sustainability and social change often cited in evaluation reports of community music projects. The lead authors (Parks and Cassidy) took this dialogue forward by organising a geography conference session which incorporated an instant choir workshop to test how we might ‘do’ social sustainability through practice. Drawing upon ideas from both disciplines, the paper synthesises the reflections of nine participants in the session to explore the capacity of creative, embodied, geographical practice to transform hegemonic experiences of academic conferences, and to create a sustainable and inclusive community of practice.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: academic conferences, community of practice, creative practice, embodied experience, instant choir, social sustainability
Subjects: L700 Human and Social Geography
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Geography and Environmental Sciences
Depositing User: Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited: 20 Aug 2021 08:20
Last Modified: 29 Mar 2022 08:45
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/46954

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