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New paper by Cámara-Menoyo and McInerny: Co-designing grounded visualisations of the Food-Water-Energy nexus to enable urban sustainability transformations
A new paper from CIM members Carlos Cámara-Menoyo and Greg McInerny, along with João Porto de Albuquerque, Joanna Suchomska and Grant Tregonning has just been published in Environmental Science and Policy
The paper, "Co-designing grounded visualisations of the Food-Water-Energy nexus to enable urban sustainability transformations" tackles a particularly significant knowledge gap in the Food-Water-Energy nexus by presenting the experience, decisions and lessons learnt from the co-design process of an interactive tool to visualise these complex interrelations for a particular case: food choices in kindergartens in Poland.
To make the FWE nexus understandable and actionable for the various stakeholders, our approach had two distinctive features: 1) grounding the FWE nexus following a pedagogical/Freirean approach that connects to lived experiences and problematises frames of references to activate transformation; and 2) the use of data visualisations to critically enquiry and learn about the nexus. The combination of these features resulted in data visualisations that “ground” FWE nexus by connecting to lived experiences and problematising frames of references to open transformation pathways.
The outcomes demonstrate a shift in perspectives towards the FWE Nexus that resulted from the design process and the interaction with our visualisation tool. Although further investigation is needed, we see it as a first step to opening new data-enabled transformation pathways to sustainability, not only through improved individual choices, but also by enabling new collective action, change of policies and organisational procedures, as well as new governance arrangements.
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New Book: ‘Trust, Courts and Social Rights’ by Dr David Vitale
In his new book, Dr David Vitale proposes an innovative trust-based framework for judicially enforcing social rights, informed by the trust scholarship from various disciplines and aimed at promoting the trustworthiness of government in delivering social services.
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Professor Diarmuid Costello Awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2023-4)
Professor Diarmuid Costello has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2023-4) to work on his next book project, a collection of essays provisionally titled Spurs to Thought: Philosophical Engagements with Contemporary Art.
Professor Costello says: "The goal of this research is two-fold: to demonstrate the remarkable capacity of selected works of contemporary art to function as spurs to philosophical reflection, if approached in the right spirit; and, in so doing, to establish the value of what I call “philosophical criticism” as an alternative to currently dominant methodologies in the philosophy of art, whether analytic or continental. The project brings this method to bear on the kind of contemporary works that often elicit hostility or confusion, so as to make clear the challenge that such works may implicitly pose to our unreflective understanding of normative concepts we make use of every day".
Professor Costello's previous, recently completed monograph, Aesthetics after Modernism will appear in 2024 with Oxford University Press (NYC) in Noël Carroll and Jesse Prinz’s ‘Thinking Art’ series.
"Aesthetics after Modernism argues for the ongoing relevance of aesthetics to appreciating art after modernism. It aims to show that even the hardest of “hard cases” remain amenable to aesthetic analysis on an adequate conception of the latter. The book traces the contrary view of much recent art criticism and theory to Clement Greenberg’s success in recruiting Kant’s aesthetics to underwrite a formalist conception of aesthetic value. This has led later theorists to miss the resources in the third Critique for understanding our cognitive relation to the kinds of art in which they are interested. It is widely assumed that Kant’s aesthetics cannot speak to the semantic dimension of art; I provide an interpretation of Kant’s theory of art, taking Conceptual Art as my test case, that suggests otherwise. If it can be shown that Kant’s aesthetics can accommodate the appreciation of art with no sensible features, then it should in principle be able to accommodate any kind of art".
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