Putting up a Show of Imaginative Maps

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.