TY  - UNPB
N2  - Aerography reimagines the concept of air quality beyond numerical thresholds, contributing to recent research on air and atmospheres across the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Air quality normally refers to quantitative measures of air pollution calibrated against local, regional, and international standards. Limit values have become central to monitoring and regulation practices, but they cannot fully account for the complex and uneven burden of toxicity that emerges and accumulates through intimate relations of bodies and atmospheres. The aim of Aerography is to problematise fixed definitions of air quality and to propose ways of generating relational, situated, and polyvocal accounts via participatory arts, exhibition design, art-science collaboration, and interdisciplinary dialogue. 

?Creative translation? establishes an epistemological orientation for the creative practice as research and is followed by three case studies. ?Breathing worlds? proceeds to explore media artworks in contexts of COVID-19 and urban air pollution in the UK, fomenting a discussion on intersectional politics, antiracist feminisms, and the right to breathable air. ?Re-sensing toxicity? engages with exhibition design to deepen the critical reflection on intersectional exposures, with a focus on sprayed pesticides and exploitative labour conditions in Andalusia. Finally, ?Drifting with dust? investigates transcontinental, postcolonial experiences of air quality with a dialogue between climatology and critical theory that speculatively ?follows? Saharan dust across disciplines and continents. In sum, the research underscores the urgent need for approaches to air quality that account for systemic inequities as well as possibilities to imagine and breathe more hopeful futures into being.
M1  - Doctoral
PB  - UCL (University College London)
A1  - Sabin, Lucy
Y1  - 2024/10/28/
N1  - Copyright © The Author 2024. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author?s request.
ID  - discovery10198487
AV  - restricted
EP  - 362
UR  - https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198487/
KW  - aerography
KW  -  air art
KW  -  air quality
KW  -  art-research
KW  -  art-science
KW  -  atmosphere
KW  -  breathability
KW  -  breathing worlds
KW  -  breathlessness
KW  -  breathworks
KW  -  chemical exposure
KW  -  creative geography
KW  -  creative translation
KW  -  re-sensing
KW  -  saharan dust
KW  -  toxic art
KW  -  weathering
TI  - Aerography: Air quality and creative practice
ER  -