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FACILITATING AND TRANSFORMING CREATIVE TIES TO PLACE

Susan P. Mains Geography, School of Environment University of Dundee s.p.mains@dundee.ac.uk

TIES TO THE TAY Exploring the changing relationships with, and representations of, the River Tay and its surrounding environs Collaborative and interdisciplinary project Creative writers—including the Nethergate Writers—artists, film makers and community group participants To engage, document, create and celebrate diverse Ties to the Tay

TiestotheTay.wordpress.com

Through the process of storytelling we are investigating how we produce and challenge connections to places, and how we formulate new relationships with various landscapes.

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING & CREATIVE COMMUNITIES

• Project blogsite • Documenting process • Internal and external functions

REVISIONING PLACE • Participatory Methods: workshops, fieldtrips, filmmaking, exhibiting • Documenting and engaging with Tayside landscapes • What approaches work? Could be adapted?

• What kind of resources can be developed/forms of dissemination/ongoing and wider collaborations?

I am like all of you. I move with unknowable intent and with a pattern that makes sense to me only. My centre spins in torment and my outer reaches lie lazy, stolid, tamed, indeed, vexingly simple and crude. I know too much or nothing at all. I am odd and boring. I have been swallowed by opinion. I am drowning in cliché; pig iron by moonlight; and river by day. The Tay. -excerpt from ‘My Song’ by Megan Heather (Watermarks 2014, p. 116)

PARTICIPATION, VOICE, IMPACT

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Storytelling & place Varied ways to articulate ideas Knowledge exchange Transformative: harnessing complementary skills