Okanagan Waterways Past, Present and Future: Approaching Sustainability through Immersive Museum Exhibition
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Published:2023-11-20
Issue:22
Volume:15
Page:16109
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ISSN:2071-1050
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Container-title:Sustainability
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Sustainability
Author:
Dulic Aleksandra1, Thorogood Miles1ORCID, Sam Marlowe2, Correia Maria1, Alexis Sarah2, Armstrong Jeanette2
Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, BC V1V 1V7, Canada 2. Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, BC V1V 1V7, Canada
Abstract
This paper presents Waterways Past, Present and Future, a research project and exhibition in Okanagan Syilx territory, aimed at increasing awareness of the relationship between people and water towards catalyzing sustainable water practices. The exhibition’s multi-channel audio-visual media was designed to immerse, provoke, destabilize, transform and move visitors to take responsibility for water. Drawing on many ways of knowing and doing in the creative process, the exhibition opens different entry points to the research, thus encouraging an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural audience to engage with it. Waterways’ contribution to sustainability discourse lies in its empowerment of collaborative inquiry as a way of knowing, understanding and representing our world. The epistemological dimensions of the exhibit present multiplicities embedded in the social life of water, inviting dialogues, shaping cultural narratives and developing new forms of creativity. Through the sensual process of immersion and activation of lateral thinking, the exhibition facilitates connections across cultures, connections that act as agents for social transformation. Waterways’ experiential journey transcends our personal and dominant socio-cultural patterns, reaching beyond normative structures to new creative realms shared ethical space.
Funder
Okanagan Waterways Touring Exhibition and Speaker Series Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Waterways—the Past, Present and Future of Okanagan Waterscape Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Water Ways—the Past, Present and Future of Okanagan Waterscape Okanagan Basin Water Board
Subject
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Geography, Planning and Development,Building and Construction
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