ABSTRACT
This chapter exemplifies how to create conceptual tools and relate stories which enable us to collectively recognize a food landscape as ours and not only the product of industrial needs. This chapter presents an approach to research-creation and its role in the field of environmental aesthetics. It is both a hybrid practice between art and science and a practice involving knowledge of people’s places and environments with a view to their transformation. Research-creation implies using fieldwork as experience in order to materialize it through both artistic and scientific practices. Artistic practices then consist in actually giving form to reality and not just representing it. In this framework, artists and researchers harness open-ended approaches to investigating reality based on surveys and a wide range of media for (re)presentational purposes. The research-creation project in which they participate, the techniques that they use, along with their invitation in principle to use the findings in an indeterminate manner, make the initiative a more customized local project in the sense of specific, concrete, local production.
