
Visual Futures
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In our everyday lives, we navigate across a vast sea of visual imagery. Yet, we rarely pause to question how or why we derive meaning from this sea. Nor do we typically contemplate the impact that it has on our motivations, our assumptions about science and about other people, and our actions as individuals and collectives. This book is a collection of interdisciplinary perspectives, from science to film, from graffiti and virtual environments to architecture and education that examines the ways in which we interact and engage with the visual elements of our environments.
Visual Futures provides an interdisciplinary examination of how we visualize and use visuals to make meaning within our environment. A diverse range of contributions and perspectives from biology, film, virtual reality, urban graffiti, architecture, critical pedagogy and education challenge our current attitudes, norms and practices of looking and seeing, opening up questions about the future. The future is a concept with significant political stakes and the work of rethinking and reimagining possible worlds requires a host of practices, which include the work of seeing, of image-making and of representation - all of which is political work taken up by the book contributors.
Primary readership will be among scholars and students of visual culture, media studies, digital cultures, fine art, architecture, education, science communication and sociology. Clearly aimed at an academic readership, it will also appeal to practising artists, architects, software developers and educators.
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Brett Caraway obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin before coming to the University of Toronto where he teaches and researches economics, Marxian theory and sustainability. His research has been published in Environmental Communication, Communication Theory, Information, Communication & Society, Media, Culture & Society and the International Journal of Communication.
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Brett Caraway and Penny Kinnear
Chapter 2 - In between Whiteness: Pierre Bourdieu and Rudolph Valentino, an unlikely pairing
Elizabeth Peden
Chapter 3 - Ink to inkling: Artful messages in the visuals of biology
Charudatta Navare
Chapter 4 - Visualizing gentrification: Resistance and reclamation through the writing on the walls
Tracey Bowen
Chapter 5 - Intentional viewing: Decoding, learning, and creating culturally relevant architecture
Matthew Dudzik & Marilyn Corsen Whitney
Chapter 6 - Visualizing art-science entanglements for more habitable futures
Kylie Caraway
Chapter 7 - Seeing, sensing and surrendering the inside: Expressions of the adolescent self in a 'structured illustrative disclosure'
Edie Lanphar and Phil Fitzsimmons
Chapter 8 - Picturing the state of visual literacy initiatives today
Dana Statton Thompson
Chapter 9 - Afterforward: To visualize the future is political work
Danielle Taschereau Mamers
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