Introduction to critical urban photography
Creative Practice Research Group
11 November 2024
Oslo Metropolitan University
Oslo, Norway
Extinction Rebellion flags hang at a blockade in Tiergarten Berlin (2019)
Creative Practice Research Group. This is a closed event but if you are in Oslo and would like an invitation, please get in touch.
I am a member of the new interdisciplinary Creative Practice Research Group, led by Professor Cecilie Sachs Olsen at Oslo Metropolitan University. I will be giving a talk at the next meeting of the research group, and will be speaking on artistic approaches to critical urban photography.
About the talk
Reflecting on my own photographic practice, this presentation explores artistic approaches to critical urban photography and demonstrates how making art can be an important part of the analytic process. Taking more creative approaches to urban research photography may lead to exciting new findings in the field, help evade tricky ethical quandaries, and foster deeper connections between researcher and audience. I will share images from my diverse urban photographic projects, covering topics from graffiti and street art to environmental activism.
About the research group
The Creative Practice Research Group is led by Professor Cecilie Sachs Olsen in the Department of Art, Design and Drama at Oslo Metropoliatan University (OsloMet).
Creative Practice — (trans)forming space, place and the environment is an interdisciplinary research group which explores and promotes creative and artistic engagements with space, place and the environment. The aim is to examine and cement the importance of creative practice-led research, including artistic research, in (trans)forming and exploring societal imaginaries, and in materially making and shaping places, landscapes, lives and environments.
For more information about this event, please refer to the Oslo Metropolitan University website. Please note that the research group description was adapted from text written by Cecilie Sachs Olsen, leader of the Creative Practice interdisciplinary research group at OsloMet. The description of the talk is written by Emma Arnold.
