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The Air We Breathe, 2019. Image credit: Sarah Strachan.
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Being a practicing artist and conducting practice-based research today may involve re-framing and rethinking beyond discipline boundaries. It can be said that art prospers from such spillage, which can create opportunities for collaborations where knowledges and meanings can be articulated in new and innovative ways.
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... left to right, the subject is sitting quietly breathing through their nose, saying 'also' when speaking at a conversational volume and laughing (Bhagat et al., 2020). The children's responses provided insight into their perspective on air pollution -the vast majority reflecting on outdoor air quality when in fact indoor air pollution is often the most hazardous to health as shown in Figure 3 below (World Health Organisation, 2018). ...
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... An example specific to IA can be found in Strand et al. (2022) while Toland et al. (2018) document work about soil systems. Vago and Strachan (2021), summarise the environment-based knowledge making of some of the major conceptual land artists of the late 20th century. These examples suggest ways of allowing Nature a voice. ...
What would impact assessment (IA) look like from the perspective of Nature? This paper intends to provoke a conversation about including Nature in the IA process. It is an intentional provocation to challenge the businessasusual approach driven by proponents. Using reflexivity and embedding images in the text, along with literature review from within IA and wider interdisciplinary thinking, the means for the environment to participate are explored. The paper argues for allowing Nature a voice by including the environment as a stakeholder in a more relational approach to IA.
