David Overend
Biographic Data
| ID | 163996 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Overend |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Overend |
| SIGNATURE | OVEREND D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4411-3077 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Undisciplined Learning Spaces: An Environmental Model for Interdisciplinary Education
This article introduces an environmental model for interdisciplinary education that recognises learning spaces as dynamic and relational. By looking for alternatives to traditional modes of critical and integrative interdisciplinarity, it promotes the creation of ‘undisciplined’ spaces that foster creativity and unpredictability in learning processes. Interdisciplinary education is situated within physical, digital, and conceptual spaces. Three c…
Postdigital Learning Journeys
Across contexts and history, the pursuit of knowledge has often overlapped with the undertaking of travel. For centuries, pilgrims have made their way to Badrinath, Lumbini, Mecca, and other places of religious note, demonstrating devotion while participating in journeys of personal exploration. Travelling also holds the promise of cultural enlightenment, for instance as wealthy young British men embarked on the Grand Tour across Europe during th…
Creating Edinburgh: Diffracting interdisciplinary learning and teaching in the contemporary city
This article follows an experimental interdisciplinary undergraduate course in the busy, unpredictable space of the contemporary city. It locates practice-based research of interdisciplinary higher education in a dynamic learning environment, which is comprised of unpredictable connections between disciplinary perspectives. Following Karen Barad, the aim is to diffract interdisciplinary higher education in order to recognise and work with a multi…
Performance in the Field: Interdisciplinary Practice-as-Research
This monograph offers a practice-based investigation into the potential of fieldwork as a key methodology in theatre and performance studies.
Field works: Wild experiments for performance research
This article reflects on a series of wild experiments in literal field sites. It develops a practice-based methodology that aims to identify, perform and assert wild presences and unruly processes, playfully engaging with vibrant and dynamic ecologies. To explore these concerns ‘in the field’, a series of research trips were undertaken in the United Kingdom between 2017 and 2020, including repeated visits to Knepp Wildland Project in West Sussex …
Performance in the Field: Interdisciplinary Practice-As-Research
The bones beneath the streets: Drifting through London's Quaternary
This article reflects on a Situationist dérive in Central London, which mobilised a creative engagement with the city's Quaternary history (the last 2.6 million years). The aim was to animate paleoecological knowledge in the resistant, opaque and frenetic environment of a dense urban centre. This brief excursion into an alternative London is offered as a model for contemporary drifting that stretches out beyond our immediate situation to connect …
Wild Performatives: Experiments in Rewilding at the Knepp Wildland Project
This article reflects on a two-day creative workshop at Knepp Castle Estate in October 2017. Knepp is the location of a large-scale “rewilding” project established in 2002, which uses free-roaming herbivores to cultivate habitat change and restore natural processes. Using collaborative performance-making strategies, participants attempted to respond and contribute to the complex ecology of the site, exploring the potential for productive exchange…
Regular Routes: Deep Mapping a Performative Counterpractice for the Daily Commute 1
This article offers a textual “deep map” of a series of experimental commutes undertaken in the west of Scotland in 2014. Recent developments in the field of transport studies have reconceived travel time as a far richer cultural experience than in previously utilitarian and economic approaches to the “problem” of commuting. Understanding their own commutes in these terms—as spaces of creativity, productivity and transformation—the authors trace …
Reflections on a mobile train conference from Helsinki to Rovaniemi
This is an account of Laura Bissell and David Overend’s experience of attending a ‘mobile train conference’, which explored ideas around theatre and nomadism en route from the Finnish capital, Helsinki, to the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi. The account of the journey, which took place on 8 April 2014, reflects on the opportunities, affordances and limitations of mobilising knowledge exchange in this way. Drawing on Michel De Certeau’s brief …
The bones beneath the streets: Drifting through London's Quaternary
This article reflects on a Situationist dérive in Central London, which mobilised a creative engagement with the city's Quaternary history (the last 2.6 million years). The aim was to animate paleoecological knowledge in the resistant, opaque and frenetic environment of a dense urban centre. This brief excursion into an alternative London is offered as a model for contemporary drifting that stretches out beyond our immediate situation to connect …
Reflections on a mobile train conference from Helsinki to Rovaniemi
This is an account of Laura Bissell and David Overend’s experience of attending a ‘mobile train conference’, which explored ideas around theatre and nomadism en route from the Finnish capital, Helsinki, to the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi. The account of the journey, which took place on 8 April 2014, reflects on the opportunities, affordances and limitations of mobilising knowledge exchange in this way. Drawing on Michel De Certeau’s brief …
Wild Performatives: Experiments in Rewilding at the Knepp Wildland Project
This article reflects on a two-day creative workshop at Knepp Castle Estate in October 2017. Knepp is the location of a large-scale “rewilding” project established in 2002, which uses free-roaming herbivores to cultivate habitat change and restore natural processes. Using collaborative performance-making strategies, participants attempted to respond and contribute to the complex ecology of the site, exploring the potential for productive exchange…
Regular Routes: Deep Mapping a Performative Counterpractice for the Daily Commute 1
This article offers a textual “deep map” of a series of experimental commutes undertaken in the west of Scotland in 2014. Recent developments in the field of transport studies have reconceived travel time as a far richer cultural experience than in previously utilitarian and economic approaches to the “problem” of commuting. Understanding their own commutes in these terms—as spaces of creativity, productivity and transformation—the authors trace …
Regular Routes: Deep Mapping a Performative Counterpractice for the Daily Commute 1
This article offers a textual “deep map” of a series of experimental commutes undertaken in the west of Scotland in 2014. Recent developments in the field of transport studies have reconceived travel time as a far richer cultural experience than in previously utilitarian and economic approaches to the “problem” of commuting. Understanding their own commutes in these terms—as spaces of creativity, productivity and transformation—the authors trace …
Reflections on a mobile train conference from Helsinki to Rovaniemi
This is an account of Laura Bissell and David Overend’s experience of attending a ‘mobile train conference’, which explored ideas around theatre and nomadism en route from the Finnish capital, Helsinki, to the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi. The account of the journey, which took place on 8 April 2014, reflects on the opportunities, affordances and limitations of mobilising knowledge exchange in this way. Drawing on Michel De Certeau’s brief …
Wild Performatives: Experiments in Rewilding at the Knepp Wildland Project
This article reflects on a two-day creative workshop at Knepp Castle Estate in October 2017. Knepp is the location of a large-scale “rewilding” project established in 2002, which uses free-roaming herbivores to cultivate habitat change and restore natural processes. Using collaborative performance-making strategies, participants attempted to respond and contribute to the complex ecology of the site, exploring the potential for productive exchange…
The bones beneath the streets: Drifting through London's Quaternary
This article reflects on a Situationist dérive in Central London, which mobilised a creative engagement with the city's Quaternary history (the last 2.6 million years). The aim was to animate paleoecological knowledge in the resistant, opaque and frenetic environment of a dense urban centre. This brief excursion into an alternative London is offered as a model for contemporary drifting that stretches out beyond our immediate situation to connect …
Performance in the Field: Interdisciplinary Practice-as-Research
This monograph offers a practice-based investigation into the potential of fieldwork as a key methodology in theatre and performance studies.
Field works: Wild experiments for performance research
This article reflects on a series of wild experiments in literal field sites. It develops a practice-based methodology that aims to identify, perform and assert wild presences and unruly processes, playfully engaging with vibrant and dynamic ecologies. To explore these concerns ‘in the field’, a series of research trips were undertaken in the United Kingdom between 2017 and 2020, including repeated visits to Knepp Wildland Project in West Sussex …
Performance in the Field: Interdisciplinary Practice-As-Research
Creating Edinburgh: Diffracting interdisciplinary learning and teaching in the contemporary city
This article follows an experimental interdisciplinary undergraduate course in the busy, unpredictable space of the contemporary city. It locates practice-based research of interdisciplinary higher education in a dynamic learning environment, which is comprised of unpredictable connections between disciplinary perspectives. Following Karen Barad, the aim is to diffract interdisciplinary higher education in order to recognise and work with a multi…
Postdigital Learning Journeys
Across contexts and history, the pursuit of knowledge has often overlapped with the undertaking of travel. For centuries, pilgrims have made their way to Badrinath, Lumbini, Mecca, and other places of religious note, demonstrating devotion while participating in journeys of personal exploration. Travelling also holds the promise of cultural enlightenment, for instance as wealthy young British men embarked on the Grand Tour across Europe during th…
Undisciplined Learning Spaces: An Environmental Model for Interdisciplinary Education
This article introduces an environmental model for interdisciplinary education that recognises learning spaces as dynamic and relational. By looking for alternatives to traditional modes of critical and integrative interdisciplinarity, it promotes the creation of ‘undisciplined’ spaces that foster creativity and unpredictability in learning processes. Interdisciplinary education is situated within physical, digital, and conceptual spaces. Three c…
Art (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)