CODA: visual studies now

The intention of this critical project is to foster a conversation that foregrounds, and builds from, the complexities of interdisciplinary collaboration, its strengths and weaknesses, contributions and gaps. Our aim is to provide an international forum for the development of visual research; provoke more acceptance, understanding and discussion of a wide range of methods, approaches, theories and paradigms that constitute image-based research; reduce the disparity in emphasis between visual and written studies in scholarly research; and bridge the gap between empirically grounded visually- based research across the spectrum of the social sciences, arts, and humanities

Editorial [Special Issue - Visual Studies, 36 (3) Visual Studies Roundtable]

Over the course of the past 16 months, Visual Studies, under its new editorial stewardship, has embarked on a journey to explore and engage with what Visual Studies is or could be. The apex of this journey to date can be found in this special issue, entitled The Visual Studies Questionnaire: What is Visual Studies Today. Framed around a set of eight questions, our Visual Studies Questionnaire has been an exercise in reflexivity and future signalling for the "eld of Visual Studies and its affiliated disciplines. While the responses have been published in full, we, the Editors, also chaired an open- response roundtable discussion at the IVSA (‘Visual Studies roundtable: The future of visual studies’, 7 July 2021) with a select number of questionnaire respondents. Those who participated reflected the diversity of our field and accorded us the opportunity to extend the dialogue with a wider community of scholars and practitioners present at the event – the transcript of which is included in this issue