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Environmental Health Justice in the City
2008-2009 Seminar Series
Arts‐Informed, Embodied Research Installations
Presenter: Dr. Geoffrey Edwards
Nov. 13th, 2008 from 2pm‐4pm
University College Room 248 - U of T St. George campus (15 King’s College
Circle)
Free!
Description of Seminar: Beginning with some concrete examples of Resonant
Installations currently
under development, we shall explore some of the underlying principles
concerning embodied
experience and visceral knowledge; talk about technology toolkits that
support the work, and do
some "body‐storming" exercises that favor the development of transformative
design principles. The
seminar will hence be a mix of theory, embodiment exercises and a practical
work focused on
installation design.
Biography
Geoffrey Edwards is a senior scientist who has long worked at the interface
between disciplines. Since awarded the
Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Geomatics in 2001, he has concentrated
his efforts towards the elaboration of
cognitively‐informed tools for situating the body in space. For the past
five years, Dr. Edwards has been working with
a performing artist, Ms. Marie Louise Bourbeau, on the development of new
media installations that explore the
body in space as it relates to issues and challenges in physical
rehabilitation and public health. These Transformative
or Resonant Installations explore visceral embodied experience as it relates
to personal identity and a sense of
personhood. Dr. Edwards has led several major initiatives in collaborative
research over the years, including
roles as director of the Centre for Research in Geomatics at Laval
University and of the GEOIDE Network of
Centres of Excellence. He is currently also director of the Laboratory for
the Exploration of Media Immersion for
Rehabilition (the EMIR Laboratory), a CFI‐funded infrastructure. He is in
Toronto as part of a sabbatical leave,
working with scientists and clinicians at Bloorview Kids Rehab on a series
of Embodied Resonant Installations for
children with disabilities.
About the Environmental Health Justice in the City Research Interest
Group/Network
With funding from the Centre for Urban Health Initiatives at the University
of Toronto, our network is focused on advancing
the theory and practice of how social inequities in environmental health in
the city are (re)produced, assessed,
understood/experienced, & addressed. We are particularly interested in
advancing the understanding and application of
innovative community-based, participatory, and arts-informed approaches.
Specific substantive foci include (a) perception,
governance, distribution of environmental health inequities in an urban
context, (b) urban form and the built environment as
key components of environmental justice, and (c) climate justice in an urban
context. The diverse and growing RIG
membership includes faculty and students from several disciplines at 5
universities, numerous local and national NGOs,
policy-makers and government.
We have funding for 2 seed grant pilot projects: (a) a photovoice project
with partners in Parkdale to document (and develop
indicators from) the lived experience of environmental health injustice
among marginalized groups; (b) an arts-enabled
‘resonant installation’ approach to popular education on climate justice.
We are looking to expand our network and to catalyze the development of new
initiatives - please join us!
http://www.utoronto.ca/cuhi/research/environmentalhealth.html
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Alexis Kane Speer, M.A.
Centre Coordinator/ Research Associate
Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (CUHI)
University College, Room 259
University of Toronto
15 King's College Circle
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H7
416-978-7223
FAX: 416-946-0669
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