All Outputs (10)

Place-Based Arts Engagement and Learning Histories: An Effective Tool for Climate Action (2024)
Journal Article
Smith, K., McDonagh, B., & Brookes, E. (in press). Place-Based Arts Engagement and Learning Histories: An Effective Tool for Climate Action. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2024.2382473

Artistic works informed by the global climate emergency are now common. Yet research typically focuses on the role of art in climate communication, rather than evaluating opportunities for large-scale public art to drive climate action and behavioral... Read More about Place-Based Arts Engagement and Learning Histories: An Effective Tool for Climate Action.

Robin Hood Gardens & The Brutalist Image (2024)
Journal Article
Brookes, E. (in press). Robin Hood Gardens & The Brutalist Image. cultural geographies, https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740241233700

This article contributes to cultural geography’s continued interest in exploring how images and photographic practices have shaped representations and engagements with architectural space. Using the Robin Hood Gardens Estate – a Brutalist social hous... Read More about Robin Hood Gardens & The Brutalist Image.

People Power and Water Politics (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
Worthen, H., McDonagh, B., Smith, K., Brookes, E., Hughes, G., & Mottram, S. (2024). People Power and Water Politics. London

Opening paragraph:
In 1622, the town of Kingston-Upon-Hull submitted a petition to King Charles I. In it, urban governors outlined the watery hazards faced by the town, namely that it stood ‘upon the dangerous river of Humber, being a great and very... Read More about People Power and Water Politics.

Learning from arts and humanities approaches to building climate resilience in the UK (2023)
Book Chapter
Brookes, E., McDonagh, B., Wagner, C., Ashton, J., Harvey-Fishenden, A., Kennedy-Asser, A., Macdonald, N., & Smith, K. (2023). Learning from arts and humanities approaches to building climate resilience in the UK. In S. Dessai, K. Lonsdale, J. Lowe, & R. Harcourt (Eds.), Quantifying Climate Risk and Building Resilience in the UK (75-89). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39729-5_6

• This chapter shares insights from five arts and humanities-led UK Climate Resilience Programme (UKCR) projects, presenting key learnings and pathways for future research and policy interventions. • We highlight the significant potential of place-ba... Read More about Learning from arts and humanities approaches to building climate resilience in the UK.

Plague Markings: Doors and Disease (2023)
Journal Article
Brookes, E. (2023). Plague Markings: Doors and Disease. Cultural History, 12(2), 145-167. https://doi.org/10.3366/cult.2023.0285

Throughout history marking the home has often been used to convey urgent information about the ‘health’ of its inhabitants. These strategies frequently target the door or entrance to the household, as it presents a porous boundary between public and... Read More about Plague Markings: Doors and Disease.

Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience (2023)
Journal Article
McDonagh, B., Brookes, E., Smith, K., Worthen, H., Coulthard, T., Hughes, G., …Chamberlain, J. (2023). Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience. Journal of Historical Geography, 82, 91-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2023.09.002

The potential of place-based, historically-informed approaches to drive climate action has not yet been adequately interrogated. Recent scholarly work has focussed on climate communication and the role of arts and humanities-led storytelling in engag... Read More about Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience.

Wet Feet Warm Hearts Strong Places: a community created zine about flood resilience in Hull (2023)
Digital Artefact
Smith, K., Brookes, E., McDonagh, B., Chamberlain, J., Hughes, G., & Dorton, L. (2023). Wet Feet Warm Hearts Strong Places: a community created zine about flood resilience in Hull. [pdf]

Introduction
Welcome to the Risky Cities zine. The art, poetry, imagery and stories in this zine have been created as part of the Risky Cities project at the University of Hull, which has explored the city of Hull's long history of living with water... Read More about Wet Feet Warm Hearts Strong Places: a community created zine about flood resilience in Hull.

Robin Hood Gardens: The Aesthetic Politics of Listed Buildings (2023)
Journal Article
Brookes, E. (2023). Robin Hood Gardens: The Aesthetic Politics of Listed Buildings. Planning Theory & Practice, 24(3), 391-393. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2023.2230046

Robin Hood Gardens (RHG) was a brutalist social housing estate in Poplar, East London, built in 1972 by British architects Alison and Peter Smithson, and since 2017 has been undergoing demolition to be turned into luxury flats as part of the Blackwal... Read More about Robin Hood Gardens: The Aesthetic Politics of Listed Buildings.

Intimate architectures: a cultural geography of doors (2020)
Journal Article
Brookes, E. (2022). Intimate architectures: a cultural geography of doors. Social & cultural geography, 23(6), 797-813. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2020.1821389

This article seeks to contribute to geography’s continued interest in architecture through a focus on the ‘intimate architectural space’ of the door. Its aims are threefold; the first section seeks to extend knowledge of the door within geographic li... Read More about Intimate architectures: a cultural geography of doors.

Floodlights Review Infographic
Report
Smith, K., Brookes, E., & McDonagh, B. Floodlights Review Infographic. Risky Cities

This report outlines the key findings from the FloodLights evaluation survey.