Art exhibitions, installations and provocations
We are delighted to feature a number of small artistic and creative interventions at the conference. These will be located near conference registration in the Teaching and Learning building.
An intimate connection: Society and the Ocean in Water Photography
Giuseppe Lupinacci/Raw-News for the EU project PartArt4OW, ideated and realised in collaboration with Chiara Certoma’ and Federico Fornaro
Thirtyone artistic photos, realised from below and inside the sea, portray diverse ways in which people create and understand their connection with the liquid, turbulent, mutable and unpredictable watery context.
Framed within the marine social geography perspective investigated by the CO>SEA ColLaboratorium for the Socio-Environmental Analysis of the Ocean, the exhibition narrates the ocean as a site of constant chance and transformation, compenetration and bio-chemical and cultural sympoieses that transform our understand and shape relational values connecting us to the marine word while inspiring our emotional attachment with the Ocean.
The Pest Confessional
Hannah Fair (University of Southampton, UK)
Rats. Mice. Bed bugs. Flies. Fleas. Embrace the chance to confess your pests and be freed from the shame of domestic infestations. The Pest Confessional Booth invites attendees to anonymously share their experiences of unexpectedly or unwillingly sharing their homes with unwanted nonhuman others.
Stories of disgust, fear, humour, and joy are all welcome. The Pest Confessional is a non-judgmental space that invites participant to sit with the ambivalence of multispecies entanglements.
For more information about the Pest Confessional, contact Hannah Fair on h.l.fair@soton.ac.uk or visit the stand during the conference.
Pin The Tale
Jack Lowe (University of the West of England, UK)
Throughout this year’s conference, all delegates can take part in a brand-new creative activity designed to help you get to know Birmingham, our host city, a little better.
Pin the Tale is a platform for connecting with the world around you through stories. It takes place on a UK-wide digital story map that is freely accessible via web browser on smartphone, tablet or PC/Mac.
The game map uses the what3words grid, a system that divides the world into 3m x 3m squares and gives each one a unique three-word address.
Delegates are invited to use Pin the Tale to:
- Write stories about places in Birmingham using all three words of the locations’ what3words addresses. Stories can take any creative form: fictional, poetic, historical, personal, informative, imaginative.
- Discover new things about our host city by reading other people’s stories. If you can identify the exact locations that stories are connected with, they’ll be added to your collection of Solved Stories.
Retracing Footsteps: The Changing Landscape of Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon)
Dr Daniel Bos (University of Chester), Dr Cian Quayle (University of Chester), Jane Evans and Emma Petruzzelli
Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon is Wales’s most iconic mountain, hosting 650,000 visitors annually. This exhibition combines cultural geography, art, and photography to document and reflect on past and present encounters with the mountain. Contemporary photographs and moving images are juxtaposed with extracts from the 19th-century visitor books housed at the summit huts.
By retracing the journeys of 19th-century visitors to the mountain, this work reimagines the mountain landscape as it is today, reflecting on the broader contemporary environmental, social-economic, and cultural challenges facing its sustainable future.
The exhibition is part of an ongoing, interdisciplinary project at the University of Chester in collaboration with Bangor University and Snowdonia National Park Authority.
RGS-IBG 2025 Zine Fair by GEOZONe
The Geography Zine Organizing Network (GEOZONe) will host the RGS-IBG's first ever Zine Fair. GEOZONe will be profiling zines on creative methods, activism, material cultures, and anything geography-related for the duration of the conference.
You can send in your zines via mail, in person, or request organisers print them for you.
Learn more and get in contact on the GEOZONe website.