Curriculum & Pedagogy

A/r/tography is a form of practice-based research steeped in the arts and education. Alongside other arts based, arts informed and aesthetically defined methodologies, a/r/tography is one of many emerging forms of inquiry that refer to the arts as a way of re-searching the world to enhance understanding. Yet, it goes even further by recognizing the educative potential of teaching and learning as acts of inquiry. Together, the arts and education complement, resist, and echo one another through rhizomatic relations of living inquiry. In this paper, we demonstrate rhizomatic relations in an ongoing project entitled 'The City of Richgate' where meanings are constructed within ongoing a/r/tographic inquiries described as collective artistic and educational praxis. Rhizomatic relations do not seek conclusions and therefore, neither will this account. Instead, we explore a/r/tographical situations as methodological spaces for furthering living inquiry.

Using Bakhtin’s notion of heteroglossia as a basis for appreciating the rich opportunities the multiple voices of researchers and participants present, we posit that embodied heteroglossic spaces enhance the collaborative a/r/ tographic research project entitled ‘The City of Richgate’. Working with visual, narrative, and performative forms of enquiry, contiguously and separately, researchers and participants become a community of inquirers engaged in embodied heteroglossic spaces that exist simultaneously and inter-corporeally within the qualities of a variety of artistic languages and the variation of these qualities as found in particular moments of time and space. Recognizing the inter-corporeal nature of our work extends Bakhtin’s notion into a multimodal (perhaps multilingual) context and offers lenses for engaging in collaborative research design and analysis.

Our research involves community-engaged arts practices that explore issues of identity, place, displacement, community, and the changing nature of geography within the city of Richmond. It focuses on the expansion of processes and events that give landscape a sense of place in ways that resonate with lived experiences and cultural traditions.

using Bakhtin's notion of heteroglossia as a basis for appreciating the rich opportunities the multiple voices of researchers and partüipants plesent, we posit that embodied heteroglossic spaces enhance the iollaborative a/r/ tographic research project entitled 'The city of Richgate' . working with visual, narrative, and performative forms of enquiry, contiguously aid. separately, researchers and participants become a community of inqiirers eigaged in embodiedheteroglossic spaces that exist simultan oisty uniinter-coriorea[y within the qualities of a variety of artistic languages and the vqriati.on of these qualities as found in particular moments of ümà and, space. Recognizing the inter-corporeal nqture of our work extend.s Bakhtin,s notion into a multimodql (perhaps multilingual) conte?ct and offers lenses for engaging in collaborative research design and analysis.

A/r/tography is a form of practice-based research steeped in the arts and education. Alongside other arts based, arts informed and aesthetically defined methodologies, a/r/tography is one of many emerging forms of inquiry that refer to the arts as a way of re-searching the world to enhance understanding. Yet, it goes even further by recognizing the educative potential of teaching