Layering Place: Cartographic Art-Science Experiences to Mediate Representational and Aesthetic Practices

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Abstract

Global multispecies interactions have resulted in new public harms, altering the ways in which we understand place and the work we do within it. Exploring cartographic art-science experiences has potential to reframe and facilitate multispecies sense-making to counter these alterations of place. We offer an exploratory discussion about a cartographic art-science experience in a STEAM summer camp. This experience allowed learners to sense-make their relationships with place, zoonotic disease risk, and multispecies interactions, while co-developing representational and aesthetic practices. We suggest providing opportunities for learners to engage in local representative and everyday aesthetic practices through cartographic art-science may support multispecies connections and community engagement, collectively engaging us in disrupting the status quo and in seeking new possibilities for future living.

Authors

• Kristin Saba Fisher, Washington State University

• Kellen Pautzke, Washington State University

• Elizabeth Grace, Washington State University

• Molly L. Kelton, Washington State University