Visual Ecologies of Placemaking
Place, Performance, Identity
1st Edition
Published on 14. May 2026
304 pages
978-1-350-22487-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Essays explore public and private spaces, cities, gardens, sacred settings and domestic scenes, and particularly consider human beings' relationships to place at times when places are undergoing radical shifts due to occurrences such as global pandemics, changing climates and widespread social unrest. This timely volume features a range of case studies that explore places from storage units to city streets, performances from sacred pilgrimages to drag shows, and identities from secessionists to imperial authorities. Essays also contribute to emerging areas of inquiry, such as queer and decolonial studies and the digital humanities.
Visual Ecologies of Placemaking offers a broad examination of the performative aspects of place and identity, and yields new ways of thinking about how places are shaped and negotiated. Leslie Atzmon and Pamela 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.
Essays explore public and private spaces, cities, gardens, sacred settings and domestic scenes, and particularly consider human beings' relationships to place at times when places are undergoing radical shifts due to occurrences such as global pandemics, changing climates and widespread social unrest. This timely volume features a range of case studies that explore places from storage units to city streets, performances from sacred pilgrimages to drag shows, and identities from secessionists to imperial authorities. Essays also contribute to emerging areas of inquiry, such as queer and decolonial studies and the digital humanities.
Visual Ecologies of Placemaking offers a broad examination of the performative aspects of place and identity, and yields new ways of thinking about how places are shaped and negotiated. Leslie Atzmon and Pamela 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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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
75 bw illus
ISBN-13
978-1-350-22487-2 (9781350224872)
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05/2026
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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Persons
Leslie Atzmon is Professor of Graphic Design and Design History at Eastern Michigan University, USA.
Pamela Stewart is Assistant Professor of Art History at Eastern Michigan University, USA.
Pamela Stewart is Assistant Professor of Art History at Eastern Michigan University, USA.
Content
List of Figures
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
Index
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
Index
