Actor-Network Mapping for Academic Cultural Impact

Friday 24th of June

10.30am - 12.30pm

Room 2, University of Strathclyde, TIC Building, 99 George St, Glasgow G1 1RD

Lead Organiser: Dr Michael Pierre Johnson (The Glasgow School of Art)  

This event is brought to you by the SGSAH Cultural & Museum Studies Discipline+ Catalyst.

How can visual mapping, based upon actor-network theory (ANT), frame a ‘roundtable’ exploration of potential interest in academic research that can inform the design and dissemination of meaningful impact? This will be the question explored through a one-day session by an inter-disciplinary range of student participants engaged in research for/with cultural institutions (including but not limited to heritage, museums, and other communities of interest), and in interdisciplinary or collaborative models of development. This will use Dr Michael Johnson’s trajectory of research from developing the visual method of actor-network mapping through his PhD (Johnson, 2016) to capture and analyse the role of creative artefacts in complex collaborations, and its subsequent development into a Creative Growth Model (Johnson et al., 2019) for supporting and evaluating the application of creative ways of thinking to enterprise.     

Participants will be given an ANT frame to develop representational artefacts of their research before exploring the range of potential actors, interests and associations around their research through visual mapping and role-play. This will finish with a reflexive discussion around emergent insights and opportunities for meaningful impact in academic-cultural collaborations. This hands-on and participatory workshop will be relevant and useful to a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts, since the methods and methodologies used have a wide range of connections and applications.  

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First published: 24 May 2022