Landcare and Landscapes and Accidental Beauty

Failing Digital Technologies and the Gaze of Child Researchers

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ID12700261
AuthorsAlexandra Lasczik (0000-0001-7013-2090, Southern Cross University, Queensland, Australia, corresponding author), Amy Cutter‐mackenzie (0000-0002-2499-8552, Southern Cross University, Queensland, Australia), Maia Osborn (0000-0003-2762-5038, Southern Cross University, Queensland, Australia), Lisa Siegel (0000-0002-3294-9494, Southern Cross University, Queensland, Australia), Marianne Logan (0000-0002-2533-5611, Southern Cross University, Queensland, Australia)
Year2024
Volume24
Issue1
Pages3-22
Publication date2024-09-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVisual Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1470-3572 • E-ISSN: 1741-3214
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14703572231209479
OpenAlexW4402545153
LanguageEN
References cited10

This visual essay curates an exhibition of photographic data from a project with children about Landcare, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to managing environmental issues in local communities across Australia. The project sought to empower children to engage with Landcare Reserves through participatory arts-based research to map their awareness of and participation in local Landcare Reserve sites. This visual essay recognizes the images as agentic entities, with the power to activate the gaze beyond the boundaries of this project as embedded yet transcendent from it whilst simultaneously acknowledging the ‘failing’ agency of the sensing body of the camera

Accidental · Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Computer vision · Gaze · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Computer Science · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Participatory Visual Research Methods

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