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Subject: LAND DIAGRAMS new twinned studies (fwd)
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 20:26:56 +0100 (BST)
From: martin dodge <[log in to unmask]>
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Hello, this new project might be of interest to some on this list
cheers
martin
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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 18:22:09 +0100
From: amy cutler <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: LAND DIAGRAMS new twinned studies
Dear Critters,
Announcing the launch of a new ongoing series, Land Diagrams -
http://landdiagrams.wordpress.com/ . This pairs writers from different
disciplinary backgrounds, writing in response to the same image (full
information below this email). So far it includes published pieces by the
geographers Martin Dodge, Mark Monmonier and Owain Jones, paired
respectively with lexicographer Giles Goodland, experimental poet Mark
Dickinson, and philosopher and essayist Peter Larkin. It aims to show how
many people are involved in different ways with the codification of
knowledge systems in the landscape - as well as offering new ways for
topographical conversations in different disciplines to intersect through
diagrammatic thought (or the literary tradition of *ekphrasis*).
The images include charts, schemes, scores, maps, weather data modelling,
etc. New items will be added regularly to the series - do let me know (at
[log in to unmask]) if you'd like to contribute, suggest an image, or
suggest a writer - or have any other feedback. It'd be appreciated if you
could disseminate LAND DIAGRAMS to other disciplines / interested parties
too, as the further it travels the more exploratory the conversations will
become.
many thanks,
Amy
ABOUT LAND DIAGRAMS
The reading of diagrams depends on different forms of tacit knowledge of
practises, techniques and conventions of interpretation. But diagrams are
also machines of translation (Krämer, Epistemology of the Line:
Reflections on the Diagrammatical Mind), offering ways of transmitting and
prompting thought between disciplines.
In each of these Land Diagrams, a found image (chart, scheme, score, map)
acts as a hinge between two pieces of writing, commissioned and published
simultaneously. Each writer has been chosen for the value of their work and
its involvement with the knowledge systems coded in landscape. Each pair of
writers has been chosen for a perceived often unexpected rapport across
disciplines.
The finished twinned study offers two simultaneous gestures of thought in
response to one geographical image. The responses are often experimental:
no rules have been set beyond word count, and there is no consultation
between the writers (a divergence of readings and resources is preferred to
a collaborative middle-ground).
--
Ambassador for Public
Engagement<http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/how-we-help/ambassadors/amy-cutler>
http://passengerfilms.wordpress.com/
www.amycutler.wordpress.com
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