You're invited to join us for a discussion with speaker Dr. Ruth Brennan (Trinity College Dublin) with drinks and snacks afterwards.
Art-science collaborations are proliferating as the benefits of bringing artists and scientists together are increasingly recognised. These can include making science more accountable to society through challenging accepted ways of framing human-nature relationships and ‘natural’ resource management. Integrating art and science in transdisciplinary research approaches can also help to create participatory spaces that connect the production of scientific and other forms of knowledge. This can enable different forms of knowledge to become visible within a mainstream discourse that tends to privilege one form of knowledge.
This talk will consider two art-science-community collaborations that challenged dominant framings of a conservation dispute and governance of a public resource. The first example illustrates how creative and transdisciplinary approaches helped to inspire a different understanding of a conservation dispute, by introducing alternative frames of understanding to the dominant policy framing of conservation challenges and human-nature relationships. The second example shows how visual storytelling can cut through immensely technical and technocratic governance systems to provide insights into why a critical policy objective to maintain and manage a resource as a public resource, may not in practice be effective when the governance system has been designed to privilege one reality to the exclusion of others.
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