This book proposes that creative and participatory modes of measuring, knowing, and moving in the world are needed for coming to grips with the Anthropocene epoch. It interrogates how creative, affective and experiential encounters that traverse the local and the global, as well as the mundane and the everyday, can offer new perspectives on the challenges that lay ahead. This book considers the role of the arts in exploring geographical concerns and increasing human mobility. In doing so, it offers ways to counteract the unstable, shifting and disorienting impacts and debates surrounding human activity and the Anthropocene. The authors bring together perspectives from mobilities, creative arts, cultural geography, philosophy and humanities in an innovative exploration of how creative forms of measurement can assist in reconfiguring individual and collective action.

“This invigorating, exemplary book successfully brings together scientific thought, artistic invention and geographical enquiry to constitute a fertile, politically salient compendium of ideas. Combining pertinent academic theories of mobility, tourism, materiality and performance, a plenitude of artistic works, and examples drawn from their own innovative creative practice, Barry and Keane have produced an ever-engaging, experimental and provocative text. The guiding aim: to interrogate how we might reconsider and reconceptualise how and why we measure. For though they rigorously deconstruct rigid practices of measuring, the authors subtly explore how reconfigured, creative ways of measuring might productively interrogate the conditions and crises heralded by the Anthropocene.” (Tim Edensor, Author of From Light to Dark: Daylight, Illumination and Gloom (2017))

Traces the movements of individual experiences and collective imaginaries to reflect on the intersections of creativity, mobility and alternative forms of knowledge production Examines a series of participatory artworks and workshops, interviews and photographic material, to explore the mechanisms for generating affective and experiential modes of knowing place, measuring one’s movements, and attending to the entangled nature of daily life Will appeal to a variety of academic and arts audiences, including scholars in cultural geography, mobilities, tourism, environmental humanities, creative arts, and those interested in innovative research methodologies

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