Exploring Embodied Place Attachment Through Co‐Creative Art Trajectories: The Case of Mount Murals

The built and living environment in the Flemish region in Belgium is evolving noticeably. It is densifying at an ever‐faster pace and, along the way, becoming increasingly unfamiliar to its inhabitants. Many people face profound difficulties in autonomously and positively dealing with such drastic c...

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Autores principales: Ruth Segers, Karin Hannes, Ann Heylighen, Pieter Van den Broeck
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b0a8f6b05ade4e10a1f88c5797b7420f2021-11-30T10:00:21ZExploring Embodied Place Attachment Through Co‐Creative Art Trajectories: The Case of Mount Murals2183-280310.17645/si.v9i4.4403https://doaj.org/article/b0a8f6b05ade4e10a1f88c5797b7420f2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/4403https://doaj.org/toc/2183-2803The built and living environment in the Flemish region in Belgium is evolving noticeably. It is densifying at an ever‐faster pace and, along the way, becoming increasingly unfamiliar to its inhabitants. Many people face profound difficulties in autonomously and positively dealing with such drastic changes, causing their feeling of home to waver. Triggered by these challenges and supported by the local authority of a Flemish town, the experimental and co‐creative art project Mount Murals set out to stimulate new embodied interactions between and among local residents of various ages and backgrounds and with their built environment. These include remembering place‐related sentiments, being aware of body language that plays between participants while co‐creating and sensing an invigorating stimulus when seeing results. Awakening intrinsic appreciation in people for their own environment and associated social relationships stimulates an inclusive dealing with estranged relationships in space. Referring to the relational neuroscience principles attachment, co‐creating and co‐regulating as a modus of relational resonating, we explore how and under which conditions Mount Murals’ co‐creative art trajectory supports an evolving embodied place attachment, an essential element of the sense of belonging, in participants. By embedding assets inherent to art creation in action research and starting with meaningful everyday objects, Mount Murals carries forward an art expression that considers the co‐creation process and its co‐creative products as equally important.Ruth SegersKarin HannesAnn HeylighenPieter Van den BroeckCogitatioarticleco‐creative artco‐regulatingembodied place attachmentrelational resonatingsense of belongingSociology (General)HM401-1281ENSocial Inclusion, Vol 9, Iss 4, Pp 116-129 (2021)
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topic co‐creative art
co‐regulating
embodied place attachment
relational resonating
sense of belonging
Sociology (General)
HM401-1281
spellingShingle co‐creative art
co‐regulating
embodied place attachment
relational resonating
sense of belonging
Sociology (General)
HM401-1281
Ruth Segers
Karin Hannes
Ann Heylighen
Pieter Van den Broeck
Exploring Embodied Place Attachment Through Co‐Creative Art Trajectories: The Case of Mount Murals
description The built and living environment in the Flemish region in Belgium is evolving noticeably. It is densifying at an ever‐faster pace and, along the way, becoming increasingly unfamiliar to its inhabitants. Many people face profound difficulties in autonomously and positively dealing with such drastic changes, causing their feeling of home to waver. Triggered by these challenges and supported by the local authority of a Flemish town, the experimental and co‐creative art project Mount Murals set out to stimulate new embodied interactions between and among local residents of various ages and backgrounds and with their built environment. These include remembering place‐related sentiments, being aware of body language that plays between participants while co‐creating and sensing an invigorating stimulus when seeing results. Awakening intrinsic appreciation in people for their own environment and associated social relationships stimulates an inclusive dealing with estranged relationships in space. Referring to the relational neuroscience principles attachment, co‐creating and co‐regulating as a modus of relational resonating, we explore how and under which conditions Mount Murals’ co‐creative art trajectory supports an evolving embodied place attachment, an essential element of the sense of belonging, in participants. By embedding assets inherent to art creation in action research and starting with meaningful everyday objects, Mount Murals carries forward an art expression that considers the co‐creation process and its co‐creative products as equally important.
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Karin Hannes
Ann Heylighen
Pieter Van den Broeck
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