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This chapter brings the insights gleaned from artworks, philosophies, and critical examinations of the Anthropocene back into the imaginaries that operate in the everyday. Revisiting the three lenses of sensation, scale, and spatiality, examples of the authors’ artworks offer insights into reconfigurations of community, participation, and social practice, and the way art can come closer to providing practical solutions that imaginaries make available. The chapter explores how creative measures might be used to highlight and punctuate the sensations and registers of the seismic shifts, large and small, in the Anthropocene epoch. Mobilities become a type of practice, when informed and honed in art contexts, in which one can engage and use the intersections and interferences of measure to shift the boundaries through collaborative and collective daily life.
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Barry, K., Keane, J. (2019). From the Imaginative to the Anthropocene. In: Creative Measures of the Anthropocene. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9648-9_7
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