Feeling the Field: An Art and Geography Colectiva is a collaborative project developed with the Network of Women Doing Fieldwork, bringing together artists and researchers to explore the emotional and embodied experience of fieldwork.
Working at the intersection of art and human geography, the collective engages a decolonial feminist methodology known as cuerpo-territorio (body–territory). Through a series of workshops and facilitated sessions, participants use body-mapping and creative practices to reflect on how research is lived and felt through the body, and how experiences of vulnerability, risk, and resilience shape knowledge production in the field.
The project creates space for researchers across disciplines to critically examine the “field” not only as a site of data collection, but as an emotional and political environment. By foregrounding lived experience, particularly in relation to gendered and racialised forms of violence, the workshops encourage new conversations around care, safety, and wellbeing within research practices.
Facilitated by Joyce Treasure as part of an international collective, Feeling the Field has been delivered in partnership with academic and cultural institutions, supporting early-career researchers to develop more reflexive, ethical, and embodied approaches to fieldwork.
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