Playing Games with Tito:Designing Hybrid Museum Experiences for Critical Play

This article brings together two distinct, but related perspectives on playful museum experiences: Critical play and hybrid design. The article explores the challenges involved in combining these two perspectives, through the design of two hybrid museum experiences that aimed to facilitate critical play with/in the collections of the Museum of Yugoslavia and the highly contested heritage they represent. Based on reflections from the design process as well as feedback from test users, we describe a series of challenges: Challenging the norms of visitor behaviour, challenging the role of the artefact, and challenging the curatorial authority. In conclusion, we outline some possible design strategies to address these challenges

Survival and subversion in the neoliberal university

Response to the Participatory Geographies Research Group\u27s \u27Communifesto for Fuller Geographies: Towards Mutual Security\u27, September 201

Commentary: Career progress relative to opportunity: how many papers is a baby \u27worth\u27?

How many papers is a baby ‘worth’? We were prompted to ask this provocative question by recent experiences, working on appointment committees and writing research grants in Australia, where provisions to quantify research track-records ‘relative to opportunity’ call for applicants to explain how fl uctuations in their publication outputs have been impacted by ‘career interruptions’ such as childbearing. In this age of the increasingly neoliberal university—where every activity, output, and impact is audited (Castree, 2000; 2006)—our commentary seeks to question how decision makers account (or not) for the career impacts of having children

Memory, Movement, Mobility: Affect-full Encounters with Memory in Singapore

International audienceMemory, movement and mobility characterise our everyday being. Our bodies are in constant processes of motion: our body remembers movement. Memory of movement, of and in the body, is key to our capacity to move, even if we are not aware that we are remembering movement. Mobility with, from, and in the body is (re)produced and performed by a repertoire of movements, orchestrated (for the most part) synchronously. While studies of mobility have received much recent scholarly attention, the interlinkages between memory, movement and mobility have received far less attention (see Anderson, 2004 and Casey, 2000 for notable exceptions). In redressing this omission, this paper delves into the relationship between memory, movement and mobility by directing its lens on two themes: body memory, that is memory of and in the body felt through movement, and movement and mobility, that is how mobility influences our capacities to remember, what we remember while mobile, and how specific sites of memory are designed with mobility in mind.I consider intersections of mobility and memory in the context of empirical work undertaken at sites of Singaporean World War II commemoration. I used my body as a tool for this research; I felt and read memory at the memorial sites. I also used movement through the sites. Being mobile prompted consideration of how movement, spontaneous and along designed pathways, at/through/with these memory sites, influenced memory, its (re)production, transmission and/or performance

Memory, Movement, Mobility: Affect-full Encounters with Memory in Singapore

International audienceMemory, movement and mobility characterise our everyday being. Our bodies are in constant processes of motion: our body remembers movement. Memory of movement, of and in the body, is key to our capacity to move, even if we are not aware that we are remembering movement. Mobility with, from, and in the body is (re)produced and performed by a repertoire of movements, orchestrated (for the most part) synchronously. While studies of mobility have received much recent scholarly attention, the interlinkages between memory, movement and mobility have received far less attention (see Anderson, 2004 and Casey, 2000 for notable exceptions). In redressing this omission, this paper delves into the relationship between memory, movement and mobility by directing its lens on two themes: body memory, that is memory of and in the body felt through movement, and movement and mobility, that is how mobility influences our capacities to remember, what we remember while mobile, and how specific sites of memory are designed with mobility in mind.I consider intersections of mobility and memory in the context of empirical work undertaken at sites of Singaporean World War II commemoration. I used my body as a tool for this research; I felt and read memory at the memorial sites. I also used movement through the sites. Being mobile prompted consideration of how movement, spontaneous and along designed pathways, at/through/with these memory sites, influenced memory, its (re)production, transmission and/or performance

Locating the embodied interconnections in performative geopolitics

Review of: The Geopolitics of Memory: A Journey to Bosnia, James Riding, The Geopolitics of Memory: A Journey to Bosnia. EU: Ibidem Press, 2019; 192 pp. 9783838213118, $ 30.00 (paperback

The ‘post’ as specific powerful vocabulary

On several occasions through her article, ‘Keeping You Post-ed: Space-Time Regimes, Metaphors, andPost-Apartheid’, Houssay-Holzschuch (2021) prompts us to consider suitable vocabulary for analysing‘post’ situations. In this commentary, I pursue the notion that the ‘post’ discourse already has a specificvocabulary. Taking Houssay-Holzschuch’s lead and drawing from Massey’s conception of space-timeregimes, I argue that ‘post’ is used powerfully to fasten the past to a place’s present, bounding certaingeopolitical discourses to people and places and overshadowing experiential memories of place. Thispowerful lexicographic move is shrouded by cruelly optimistic rhetoric that otherwise links ‘post’ withnewly opened spaces of possibility, positive change, and hope

Resident Attitudes to Farmland Protection Measures in the Northern Rivers Region, New South Wales

In-migration to popular 'sea change' and 'tree change' regions has produced conflicts between rural land users. In the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, new residential developments have been built on much of what was previously prime agricultural land, while farmers (in particular, those negatively affected by the deregulation of the dairy industry) have sought to secure retirement incomes by subdividing land for sale. Although developers, local councils and individual farmers sometimes see eye to eye on the mutual benefits of in-migration and population growth, land use has none the less become the subject of a hotly contested local political battle. Conflicts occur at the interface of growing urban developments and surrounding farmland, with new residents finding the sights, sounds and smells of rural production intrusive. More generally, there is considerable concern that the best farmland in the region may be lost to urbanisation and rural residential subdivision. This paper discusses the results of a survey that collected opinions from local residents about the pressures on the region's land uses by in-migration, the future role of farmland as both an economic and cultural landscape, and views on proposed measures to protect prime farmland in the region. Results highlighted a strong and consistent 'pro-farmland' and 'pro-protection' attitude throughout the region, and across social groups. Yet, variations emerged when respondents were asked about why they attribute value to agricultural landscapes. For some, 'economic' values dominated, while for others, value was attributed in ways that reflected an emerging ethos of 'localism' and village lifestyle. Although values differed, a clear message from this study is that the population of Australia's pre-eminent 'sea change' region strongly support measures to curb urban development and the more destructive consequences of a dynamic property market

Landscape and memory

Connections between landscape and memory are well documented (Schama 1995; Lowenthal, 995; Atkinson and Cosgrove, 1998); and have been the subject of sustained enquiry in the humanities and social sciences. In pondering then, our contribution on landscape and memory, we employ a spatial focus and examine the role of place in understandings of memory and landscape. The chapter is structured around what we consider three primary modes of thinking about and reading memory and landscape: representational approaches to memory, or modes of reading memory landscapes; the politics of memory representations and landscape choice; and non-representational frames for thinking through non-material memory traces. While a considerable portion of recent memory research has operationalised the latter mode of thinking (ours included, see for example Drozdzewski et al, 2016), and focused on non-representation, affect and encounter, we have pursued a more inclusive approach to highlight multiple ways of understanding landscape and memory. In our own research, each ‘mode of thinking’ has proven useful exploring the intricate and though-provoking relationships between landscape and memory

An Analysis of Consumer Incentives in Support of Electric Vehicle Uptake: An Australian Case Study

Transitioning from internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) to innovative technologies, including electric vehicles (EVs), can be a crucial pathway to reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and other negative externalities arising from fossil-fueled cars used for personal transport. Government action to correct insufficient market incentives has been essential in countries working to enhance EV acceptance; however, to date in Australia, there has been little government support to enact EV uptake. This paper identifies barriers and incentives to EV adoption in Australia through a survey of pro-environmental motorists, including an experimental component to test information provision influences on attitude change. Results evidence that wide ranging factors influence vehicle choice including EVs. Purchase barriers are focused on lack of a comprehensive recharge network and high EV purchase price. Factors encouraging fully EV uptake showed affordable price (56%) increased vehicle range (26%) and an adequate recharge network (28%) were mentioned most often; only 13% specifically indicated environmental regard as influential. Information provided about EVs increased the likelihood of positive attitudes towards EV purchase and decreased uncertainty about the technology. Recommendations arising from this research could be considered by laggard countries that, like Australia, have yet to take significant action to encourage transition to EVs