Beginning with the discipline of geography and its intersections
with the humanities, Boyd explores how art has made its way across the
academy to the social sciences and health and into science itself. Maintaining
a focus on how art has become a vehicle for knowledge translation and
exchange, the chapter builds a case for art as geography, especially in the
realm of affective knowledge translation My fellow creative geographers would likely read the above question and
let out an audible sigh for the number of times it's been asked of them.
I've certainly lost count. I think it's because most people I've met think
that geography is about places-the 'stuff' of places (physical geography)
and the 'people' who live in those places (human geography)-or worse,
they conflate geography and cartography. But literally, geography is about
writing: geo from Latin and Greek means 'relating to the earth' and graphy
from French means 'a system of writing' (OED, 2022a, 2022b). People
and places, and how they are distributed across space and time.
