Description
As creative writers our work asks how interdisciplinary forms including poetry, personal narrative, and digital storytelling can interrogate, speculate and open space in geographical investigations. Our session will include a collaborative discussion of separate and interrelated work, bridging points of connection around artistic process, methods and challenges we face. Dr Caroline Millar will propose a methodology she terms ‘Edgewriting’, a creative approach to exploring marginal and marginalised spaces by treating them as co-authors of their own stories. In capturing voices that development narratives often silence, interstitial landscapes are no longer passive subjects, but creative collaborators. Dr Rosa Rogers will discuss her work under the Met Éireann TRANSLATE project, where she is exploring meaningful co-design with communities to create climate storytelling that is accessible, can hold complexity, and generate knowledge beyond datasets to highlight intersectional risk and vulnerabilities.As interdisciplinary practitioners, we ask how experimental methods can illuminate new ways of seeing, imagining and connecting to pressing social and environmental issues. Our work addresses key challenges, particularly in how artistic methods in scientific spaces can often be seen as 'window dressing', instead we posit this work as a site to generate new knowledges that can expand geographical investigations.
As well as producing a co-dialogue exchange about the transformative power of narrative, our session will invite group discussion around our current points of enquiry. Drawing upon artistic methods of thinking about 'process', 'collaboration' and 'participation as research', the session will not offer definite conclusions, but instead hold space for interrogation, creative thinking and future imaginaries
| Period | 6 May 2026 → 8 May 2026 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Cork, IrelandShow on map |