Visual Ecologies of Placemaking
Visual Ecologies of Placemaking
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Contributing to a growing discourse in spatial humanities, this collection of essays provides a unique, critical insight into how place is shaped through visual and sensory practices. By looking at a range of natural, built, and digital environments, across historical and contemporary contexts, Visual Ecologies of Placemaking offers an in-depth study into place as a spatial, social, and cultural construct.
From holy shrines to a local bar, panoramic illusions to the uncanny landscapes of Zoom, and the depths of the ocean to city streets, these 14 case studies excavate the layered ecologies of place across time and geography. Essays explore public and private spaces, cities, gardens, sacred settings, and domestic scenes. This timely volume engages diverse disciplinary perspectives and contributes to emerging areas of inquiry, such as somaesthetics, decolonial studies, and the digital humanities. In particular, the authors consider the relationship between human beings and the concept of place at times when places are undergoing radical shifts, due to occurrences such as global pandemics, changing climates, and widespread social unrest.
Visual Ecologies of Placemaking offers a broad examination of the sensorial aspects of place, yielding new ways of thinking about how places are shaped, negotiated, lost, and reconstituted. Leslie Atzmon and Pamela A. V. Stewart's collection provides fresh and essential insights into the varied roles that place plays in our understanding and expression of the world and our place within it.
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List of Contributors
Introduction, Leslie Atzmon and Pamela Stewart
Part I: Ritual and Performance
Chapter 1.1. Building the New Nazareth: Sacred History and Sacred Space at an English Shrine, Emily Price
Chapter 1.2. Sacred and Profane: History, Power, and Consumption in Aztec Placemaking, Kristi Peterson
Chapter 1.3. Nineteenth-century Panoramas as Virtual Placemaking, Carla Hermann
Chapter 1.4. Creative Placemaking at Lamson's Department Store in Toledo: Site-Specific Immersive Installation and the Recovery of Location, Locale, and Sense of Place, Allie Terry-Fritsch
Part II: Exclusion and Appropriation
Chapter 2.5. Creating Place in the Chumash Missions of Spanish California, Nenette Marie Arroyo
Chapter 2.6. Mapping the Neighborhood, Making Place: An Alternative Map in Late Meiji Tokyo, Mengfei Pan
Chapter 2.7. Edge Space: Creative Engagements in a Guerilla Sculpture Garden, Elizabeth Currans
Chapter 2.8. Morphing Spaces and Black Places: Place to Space in the Filmic North-South, Kayci Merritté
Chapter 2.9. Between Stone and Poem: The Gendered Politics of Visual Ecology in Early Modern China, Daniel Knorr
Part III: Recovery and Loss
Chapter 3.10. Drawing The Ring of Steel, Kate Catterall
Chapter 3.11. Narcoaesthetics: Contemporary Mexican Art and The Crisis of Place, Monica Salazar
Chapter 3.12 The Kom-on-Inn as a Third Place: Paintings, Conversations, and Community-creation in Duluth Minnesota, Jennifer Webb
Chapter 3.13. VISUAL ESSAY Digital Arctic: Through Machine Eyes, Carolyn Kirschner
Chapter 3.14. Seen and Unseen: Mediated Cultural Landscapes of the Everyday on Zoom, Ellen Christensen
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| Published | 16 Apr 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 296 |
| ISBN | 9781350224872 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Illustrations | 75 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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