ABSTRACT
Chapter 10 focusses on the issue of fieldwork. Referencing the spatial turn and Bruno Latour’s call for a politics of the Terrestrial, they return the reader to exploring her or his particular place in the world, and the world’s place in shaping them. Restating the need for a fundamental rethinking of art as necessary to overcome the limitations of disciplinary thinking and possessive individualism, the authors propose an expanded vision of fieldwork grounded in individuals who are formed through their attachments, connections and relationships. In doing so they align themselves with those committed to a vision in which many different worlds are able and needed to coexist meaningfully, Their concluding emphasis is on a dynamic relationship to place as this relates to the maintenance of those many worlds, of local memory and a vigorous imagination as possibilities for a different future. Imagining an educational system predicated on associative and creative learning and exemplified by ensemble practices, the chapter concludes by evoking a re-imagined fieldwork through which, having absorbing the hard lessons of the past, readers are able to develop a more collaborative and active praxis, enabling them to imagine, and then create, a more sustainable future.
