TY - JOUR
T1 - The imaginary worlds of sustainability
T2 - Observations from an interactive art installation
AU - Bendor, Roy
AU - Maggs, David
AU - Peake, Rachel
AU - Robinson, John
AU - Williams, Steve
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - We report on preliminary results from a public engagement project based on a procedural approach to sustainability. The project centered on an interactive art installation that comprised a live actor, an immersive soundscape featuring a handful of different characters, an interactive touch-table, and four interactive rooms within which participants wandered, partially guided by a narrative through-line, yet at the same time left to make sense of any larger meanings on their own. The installation was designed to experiment with two propositions: (1) that there is value in public engagement with sustainability based on the exploration and articulation of deeply held beliefs about the world—the worldviews, values, and presuppositions that mediate perception and action; (2) that there is value in replacing the infocentric tendency of most public engagement on sustainability with an approach premised in aesthetics and experiential resonance. Following the installation’s two-week pilot run, our preliminary results indicated that the majority of participants found the experience both resonant and thought provoking, and were mostly willing to critically engage with their preexisting notions of sustainability.
AB - We report on preliminary results from a public engagement project based on a procedural approach to sustainability. The project centered on an interactive art installation that comprised a live actor, an immersive soundscape featuring a handful of different characters, an interactive touch-table, and four interactive rooms within which participants wandered, partially guided by a narrative through-line, yet at the same time left to make sense of any larger meanings on their own. The installation was designed to experiment with two propositions: (1) that there is value in public engagement with sustainability based on the exploration and articulation of deeply held beliefs about the world—the worldviews, values, and presuppositions that mediate perception and action; (2) that there is value in replacing the infocentric tendency of most public engagement on sustainability with an approach premised in aesthetics and experiential resonance. Following the installation’s two-week pilot run, our preliminary results indicated that the majority of participants found the experience both resonant and thought provoking, and were mostly willing to critically engage with their preexisting notions of sustainability.
KW - Art
KW - Cultural dimensions of sustainability
KW - Imagination
KW - Ontological agency
KW - Social constructivism
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U2 - 10.5751/ES-09240-220217
DO - 10.5751/ES-09240-220217
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85021815081
SN - 1708-3087
VL - 22
SP - 1
EP - 11
JO - Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability
JF - Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability
IS - 2
M1 - 17
ER -