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Dr Kirstie Jamieson's Outputs (32)

Participatory polyvocal performative and playful interpreting Resnik's 4 for creative placemaking with digital tools (2023)
Book Chapter
Grandison, T., Flint, T., & Jamieson, K. (2023). Participatory polyvocal performative and playful interpreting Resnik's 4 for creative placemaking with digital tools. In D. Giglitto, L. Ciolfi, E. Lockley, & E. Kaldeli (Eds.), Digital Approaches to Inclusion and Participation in Cultural Heritage: Insights from Research and Practice in Europe (114-140). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003277606-7

This chapter discusses inclusive playful encounters made possible through a Digi-Mapping project that ran in partnership with local arts organisation WHALE Arts and participants aged between 8 and 11 from three local primary schools. As part of a bot... Read More about Participatory polyvocal performative and playful interpreting Resnik's 4 for creative placemaking with digital tools.

Digi-Mapping: Creative Placemaking with Psychogeography (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Grandison, T., Flint, T., & Jamieson, K. (2022). Digi-Mapping: Creative Placemaking with Psychogeography. In Proceedings of the 35th British HCI and Doctoral Consortium 2022, UK. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2022.44

This exhibit consists of four large (2m x 1.5 m) tactile talking maps that were co-created with primary school children in Wester Hailes Edinburgh, UK. In a collaborative partnership with local arts organisation WHALE Arts, the Digi-Mapping project s... Read More about Digi-Mapping: Creative Placemaking with Psychogeography.

The Deaf Heritage Collective: Collaboration with Critical Intent (2021)
Journal Article
Jamieson, K., Discepoli, M., & Leith, E. (2021). The Deaf Heritage Collective: Collaboration with Critical Intent. Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 15(1), 1-26

The paper reflects upon the Deaf Heritage Collective, a collaborative project led by Edinburgh Napier University’s Design for Heritage team and Heriot Watt’s Centre for Translation And Interpreting Studies. The project aimed to advance discussion aro... Read More about The Deaf Heritage Collective: Collaboration with Critical Intent.

Digi-Mapping: Unpacking Meaning of Place Through Creative Technology (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Grandison, T., Flint, T., & Jamieson, K. (2021, February). Digi-Mapping: Unpacking Meaning of Place Through Creative Technology. Paper presented at Cultural Heritage and Social Impact: Digital Technologies for Inclusion and Participation, Online

Examining heritage can provide opportunities for marginalised communities to consider and valorise both their collective past and the relationality of more personal and mundane experiences (Rose, 2016). This paper argues that design methods offer her... Read More about Digi-Mapping: Unpacking Meaning of Place Through Creative Technology.

Negotiating privileged networks and exclusive mobilities: the case for a Deaf festival in Scotland’s festival city (2020)
Journal Article
Jamieson, K., & Todd, L. (2022). Negotiating privileged networks and exclusive mobilities: the case for a Deaf festival in Scotland’s festival city. Annals of Leisure Research, 25(1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2020.1809478

We explore the case for a Deaf festival in Edinburgh, the self-proclaimed 'world leading Festival City'. The formal recognition of British Sign Language in the BSL (Scotland) Act 2015 is paramount to the cultural and political context. Joining Englis... Read More about Negotiating privileged networks and exclusive mobilities: the case for a Deaf festival in Scotland’s festival city.

Antagonism as Method: Critical Heritage Meets Critical Design (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K., & Discepoli, M. (2020, August). Antagonism as Method: Critical Heritage Meets Critical Design. Paper presented at Association of Critical Heritage Studies 2020, Online

This paper reflects upon the critical intent of an inter-lingual and inter-modal heritage research project that brought together Scotland’s heritage professionals and Deaf activists. We describe how the collaborative methods of critical design facili... Read More about Antagonism as Method: Critical Heritage Meets Critical Design.

Invoking Deaf Heritage: A case for the future-making capacity of critical design (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K., & Discepoli, M. (2020, August). Invoking Deaf Heritage: A case for the future-making capacity of critical design. Paper presented at Association of Critical Heritage Studies 2020, Online

Design is inseparable from heritage in its capacity to invoke the material presence of the past, but as this pa- per argues, it is critical design’s future-making capacity that offers critical heritage a much-needed speculative representational frame... Read More about Invoking Deaf Heritage: A case for the future-making capacity of critical design.

Digi-Mapping: Unpacking meaning of place through Creative Technology (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Grandison, T., Flint, T., Jamieson, K., & Muir, L. (2020, August). Digi-Mapping: Unpacking meaning of place through Creative Technology. Paper presented at ACHS 2020 FUTURES – Association of Critical Heritage Studies 5th Biennial Conference, University College London, UK

Personal meaning attached to space through digital media gives rise to contested narratives and reveals a polyvocality of place (Farman, 2018). Attributing meaning or ensoulment (Blevis & Stolterman 2007) plays a key role in understanding the complex... Read More about Digi-Mapping: Unpacking meaning of place through Creative Technology.

Exploring Deaf heritage futures through critical design and ‘Public Things’ (2020)
Journal Article
Jamieson, K., & Discepoli, M. (2021). Exploring Deaf heritage futures through critical design and ‘Public Things’. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 27(2), 117-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2020.1771750

Increasingly, critical design methods offer heritage scholars new ways of exploring identities, experiences and relationships, extending a dialogic approach that supports the testing and realisation of heritage futures. This paper focuses upon a two-... Read More about Exploring Deaf heritage futures through critical design and ‘Public Things’.

Supporting people with intellectual disabilities to discuss death and bereavement (2020)
Journal Article
Willis, D., Winton, E., Jamieson, K., Muir, N., & Sandison, M. (2020). Supporting people with intellectual disabilities to discuss death and bereavement. Learning Disability Practice, 23(2), 17-22. https://doi.org/10.7748/ldp.2020.e2045

This article describes a public engagement project on bereavement involving people with intellectual disabilities. The project was a practical application of research findings related to discussing death, dying and bereavement with people with intell... Read More about Supporting people with intellectual disabilities to discuss death and bereavement.

The transgressive festival imagination and the idealisation of reversal (2019)
Journal Article
Jamieson, K., & Todd, L. (2021). The transgressive festival imagination and the idealisation of reversal. Leisure Studies, 40(1), 57-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2019.1693090

To consider the festival's potential as an activist tactic may seem naïve and disconnected from the colonising practices of event tourism. However, today's immersive and curated festival experiences are indebted to a wider festival imagination: a spa... Read More about The transgressive festival imagination and the idealisation of reversal.

Collaborative Disruption: Antagonistic Play within The Deaf Heritage Collective (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K., & Discepoli, M. (2019, November). Collaborative Disruption: Antagonistic Play within The Deaf Heritage Collective. Paper presented at INDialogue 4th Symposium, Nottingham

The arts are becoming increasingly integrated into applied linguistics research as scholarly attention turns towards multimodality, superdiversity (Adami 2017; Blackledge and Creese 2017) and co-production (McKay and Bradley 2016). Adding to this gro... Read More about Collaborative Disruption: Antagonistic Play within The Deaf Heritage Collective.

Silent Protest Exhibition (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Jamieson, K. (2019). Silent Protest Exhibition. [Temporary Exhibition]. Exhibited at Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling. 19 June 2019 - 24 June 2019. (Unpublished)

The ‘Silent Protest’ exhibition represents a history of Deaf Activism and proposes three designs for a Deaf Exhibition, which focus upon Deaf Education, Deaf identity and BSL.

The Deaf Heritage Collective: Collaboration and Critical Intent (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2019, April). The Deaf Heritage Collective: Collaboration and Critical Intent. Paper presented at ICOM: Museums as Agents of Change Conference, Tallinn

Deaf people refer to themselves as both a minority and an ethnicity (Lane 2011; Ladd 2003), a cultural designation underwritten by the BSL (Scotland) Act 2015, which formally recognises the linguistic and cultural lives of Scotland’s Deaf communities... Read More about The Deaf Heritage Collective: Collaboration and Critical Intent.

Fragments of Deaf Culture Exhibition (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Jamieson, K., & Discepoli, M. Fragments of Deaf Culture Exhibition. [Temporary Exhibition]. Exhibited at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. 5 April 2019 - 9 April 2019. (Unpublished)

The Fragments of Deaf Culture Exhibition featured Scottish Deaf artists as part of a celebration of Deaf Arts and as an intervention in a predominantly hearing arts venue. The exhibition featured works from Solar Bear; Glasgow People Transparent an... Read More about Fragments of Deaf Culture Exhibition.

Inspirational Practice Workshop: Deaf Heritage Collective (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2018, November). Inspirational Practice Workshop: Deaf Heritage Collective. Presented at NCCPE Engage Conference, Edinburgh

In Scotland, Deaf culture has been unacknowledged by the Creative Industries where minority cultural groups are still poorly represented by creative sector funding streams. While the Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology 2017 included activity fr... Read More about Inspirational Practice Workshop: Deaf Heritage Collective.

Deaf Heritage Collective Exhibition (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Jamieson, K., & Discepoli, M. Deaf Heritage Collective Exhibition. [Temporary Exhibition]. Exhibited at The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh. 8 November 2018 - 2018. (Unpublished)

Sponsored by MSPs, the ‘Deaf Heritage Collective Exhibition’ at the Scottish Parliament sought to represent the case for the Cultural aspect of BSL and the BSL Act (2015). The exhibition included art works from Deaf artists and video footage of Deaf... Read More about Deaf Heritage Collective Exhibition.

Feeling Brexit: Digital Empathy and Imagined Communities (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K., & Grandison, T. (2017, June). Feeling Brexit: Digital Empathy and Imagined Communities. Paper presented at Empathies: 11th Conference of the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Basel

In the transition towards triggering Article 50, the UK descended into a turmoil of bitter political division. In the fall-out of the referendum that took place on 23 June 2016 the experience of feeling Brexit took place across social media where co... Read More about Feeling Brexit: Digital Empathy and Imagined Communities.

Theorizing the Affective Registers of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K., & McCleery, A. (2017, April). Theorizing the Affective Registers of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland. Paper presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston

In history, the desire for form is expressed in formulation (White 1980) where re-makings of the past reveal both the politics of production and the shifting technologies of narrating. In an effort to understand this process of formulation we theori... Read More about Theorizing the Affective Registers of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland.

Public Art: Spaces as Sites of living together: Edinburgh’s Botanic Lights (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2017, April). Public Art: Spaces as Sites of living together: Edinburgh’s Botanic Lights. Paper presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston

Edinburgh boasts an identity reliant upon the curation of ambient festival space and cosmopolitan public life that announces the arrival of a self-consciously international urban mood. The city’s longstanding ‘reflexive accumulation’ (Lash and Urry... Read More about Public Art: Spaces as Sites of living together: Edinburgh’s Botanic Lights.

Composing Festival Timescapes (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2016, April). Composing Festival Timescapes. Paper presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston

Composing Festival Timescapes is as the title suggests, a way of approaching the city as a space of composition. The paper develops the subject of urban atmosphere and affective urban planning through an analysis of two discourses that mine the tempo... Read More about Composing Festival Timescapes.

Playfully Public: Edinburgh Botanical Gardens as Utopian Spectacle and Neoliberal Project (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2015, June). Playfully Public: Edinburgh Botanical Gardens as Utopian Spectacle and Neoliberal Project. Paper presented at Conference of European Association of Social Anthropologists, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Edinburgh exists as the pre-eminent city of ambient festival space boasting as it does a calendar of conspicuous cosmopolitan public life that announces the arrival of a self-consciously international urban mood. The city's longstanding 'reflexive ac... Read More about Playfully Public: Edinburgh Botanical Gardens as Utopian Spectacle and Neoliberal Project.

Journal of Design Practice and Research, Volume 3, 2014 (2014)
Book
Lambert, I., Firth, R., MacLeod, M., Forster, S., Innes, M., Winton, E., …Titley, W. (2014). Journal of Design Practice and Research, Volume 3, 2014. Edinburgh Napier University

Editorial -Welcome to the third issue of the Journal for Design Practice & Research.
The last 18 months has been an extremely busy time for us. We have continued to grow as a team, with new members joining, and our work grows ever more diverse. We h... Read More about Journal of Design Practice and Research, Volume 3, 2014.

Tracing festival imaginaries: Between affective urban idioms and administrative assemblages (2013)
Journal Article
Jamieson, K. (2014). Tracing festival imaginaries: Between affective urban idioms and administrative assemblages. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 17(3), 293-303. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877913487550

This article offers a way of understanding not only Festival Cities, but also the Creative City paradigm and to some extent the practices employed through the convergence of culture and urban planning that has come to dominate the logic of urban spac... Read More about Tracing festival imaginaries: Between affective urban idioms and administrative assemblages.

Revelling in Policy: viral Urban Utopias (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2011, November). Revelling in Policy: viral Urban Utopias. Paper presented at Spaces and Flows: An International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies, Monash University, Prato

This paper aims to map the prevailing virality of the Creative City paradigm. In so doing, it identifies a highly mobile normative mode of cultural reflexivity within a global matrix of urban cultural administration. The paper argues that this mode... Read More about Revelling in Policy: viral Urban Utopias.

Journal of Design Practice and Research Volume 1. 2011 (2011)
Journal Article
Lambert, I., MacLeod, M., Firth, R., Winton, E., Dean, M., Innes, M., …Titley, W. (2011). Journal of Design Practice and Research Volume 1. 2011. Journal of Design Practice and Research, 1, 1-40

What is design and what are designers? Good design can change lives and improve services within the public, private and third sectors. Designers are creative problem solvers who can make ideas visible and tangible, using a unique set of skills and st... Read More about Journal of Design Practice and Research Volume 1. 2011.

Mobile Techno-cosmopolitanism: Between Cultural and Administrative Imaginaries (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2011, June). Mobile Techno-cosmopolitanism: Between Cultural and Administrative Imaginaries. Paper presented at EURA 2011 Conference: Cities without Limits, Copenhagen

Despite the economic downturn, the highly mobile pseudo-policy first produced by Comedia, the European City of Culture and The Creative City paradigm continues to recast the city as a destination of cultural capital. From Glasgow to Istanbul urban s... Read More about Mobile Techno-cosmopolitanism: Between Cultural and Administrative Imaginaries.

Internationalist Urban Imaginaries and ‘Creative’ Global Geographies (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2011, June). Internationalist Urban Imaginaries and ‘Creative’ Global Geographies. Paper presented at EURA 2011 Conference: Cities without Limits, Copenhagen

Predicated on the spatial dialectic of the universal and the local, the internationalist paradigm of the twentieth century implicated designers in communicating the materiality of national culture as a symbol of industrial power through the euro-atla... Read More about Internationalist Urban Imaginaries and ‘Creative’ Global Geographies.

Designing Unesco Culture: Internationalism and the Global Imagination (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2010, June). Designing Unesco Culture: Internationalism and the Global Imagination. Paper presented at 8th Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference (Association of Cultural Studies), Hong Kong

Amidst the rise of sensory rather than creative discourses that seek to categorise and re-evaluate cultural encounters with and within the city, it is timely to explore how frameworks produce ideals of authenticity, and how these ideals are bound up... Read More about Designing Unesco Culture: Internationalism and the Global Imagination.

Edinburgh: the festival gaze and its boundaries (2004)
Journal Article
Jamieson, K. (2004). Edinburgh: the festival gaze and its boundaries. Space and Culture, 7(1), 64-75. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331203256853

This article examines the temporal and spatial boundaries of Edinburgh’s festival identity. It unravels Edinburgh’s festivals in terms of the spaces and identities they produce and their functions. Although there is no one definitive standpoint from... Read More about Edinburgh: the festival gaze and its boundaries.