Encountering Environments through the Arts – Interdisciplinary Embodiments, Politics, and Imaginaries

This edited collection of essays and artist reflections presents perspectives from arts and humanities researchers exploring how individuals and collectives engage with, relate to and experience environments.The term environment is broadly conceived in this volume and encompasses rural landscapes and nature spaces, urban and architectural sites, institutional, workplace and organisational spaces, domestic environments and public and private realms. Exploring what it means to encounter environments through embodied, artistic and reflexive practices, the essays and reflections draw on theoretical fields of feminist posthuman discourse, new materialism, anthropology, human geography, queer studies, performing and fine arts, art and health, psychology and ecological perspectives.Drawing on dialogues emerging from discursive border crossings between disciplines, Encountering Environments through the Arts includes contributions from the fields of dance, walking practice, sonic arts, visual a