Stuart Andrews

Interdisciplinary researcher, co-director: Performing City Resilience. Creative practices for emergency planning & strategic place management. Own views/teeth.

[Stuart Andrews @thatotheridea]

@lsupress @drpatrickduggan While grounded in one city, the book offers lessons and provocations for urban contexts globally, and we invite colleagues in cities internationally to attend to intersections between their own local performance cultures and formal resilience management practices.

[Stuart Andrews @thatotheridea]

@lsupress @drpatrickduggan A city’s arts ecosystem is fundamental to its ability to perform resilience. In this book, we argue that enabling and supporting new, mutually beneficial connections between arts and resilience practitioners is essential to managing city challenges.

[Stuart Andrews @thatotheridea]

@mtthwhgn Crikey, yes. Without wanting to self promote (too much), this closely relate to work @drpatrickduggan and I have done recently: https://t.co/an1VWk5yAD Maybe we need an interdisciplinary panel to discuss how different disciplines might approach enacting whole society resilience?

[Stuart Andrews @thatotheridea]

@Selyst @PCR_innovations Thanks @Selyst, sorry for delayed reply, we’re both on linked in and using that increasingly. Would be great to connect there.

[Stuart Andrews @thatotheridea]

@adrianadastra @drpatrickduggan It’s certainly a powerful intervention into daily life…

[Stuart Andrews @thatotheridea]

Too often, the bringing in of artists is instrumental or incidental rather than fundamental or strategic. If we are serious about engaging in whole society resilience, then we need urgently to find productive ways to engage with arts and culture as critical elements of society.

[Stuart Andrews @thatotheridea]

In the latest issue of @CRJ_reports, @drpatrickduggan and I reflect on the critical role that the arts play in whole society resilience, focusing on mural-making in New Orleans and community arts workshops led by @citizenstheatre Glasgow.

[Crisis Response Journal @CRJ_reports]

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[Stuart Andrews @thatotheridea]

@Selyst @HindsHelen @chrisMcG4 @HasisD @TheEPS1 @drpatrickduggan Key questions. Probably always welcomed, but in resilience contexts, it may be productive to frame things by facilitating, holding multiple perspectives, allowing difficulty, resisting the first answers @PCR_innovations

[Stuart Andrews @thatotheridea]

@HindsHelen @Selyst @chrisMcG4 @HasisD @TheEPS1 @drpatrickduggan Absolutely. And when/how is it productive to question understanding/agreement? @PCR_innovations

[Stuart Andrews @thatotheridea]

@HindsHelen @Selyst @chrisMcG4 @HasisD @TheEPS1 @drpatrickduggan Thanks @HindsHelen for looping us into this. Without wanting to be reductive of disciplines, art/performance can productively draw attention to liminality, to situated experience (is an incident read/defined in the same way by all?

[Stuart Andrews @thatotheridea]

@NikiRust @Selyst @FloraCornish @LucyGoBag @jacnjimms @alisonleary1 @mtthwhgn @drpatrickduggan @PCR_innovations There’s certainly a case for new ways of thinking and working, and for new connections between existing literatures that are too often perceived as separate.

[Stuart Andrews @thatotheridea]

@FloraCornish @Selyst @LucyGoBag @jacnjimms @alisonleary1 @mtthwhgn @drpatrickduggan @PCR_innovations Thanks @FloraCornish! We’d agree that performance can be valuable in making findings matter in the moment. But we’d also argue that performance is a compelling mode of discovering evidence and developing new working practices and strategies. We’d be very happy to chat about this.

[Stuart Andrews @thatotheridea]

@Selyst @LucyGoBag @jacnjimms @alisonleary1 @FloraCornish @mtthwhgn @drpatrickduggan For more info on this work, see https://t.co/LqMZ7a6yUL and follow us at @pcr_innovations.

[Stuart Andrews @thatotheridea]

@Selyst @LucyGoBag @jacnjimms @alisonleary1 @FloraCornish @mtthwhgn @drpatrickduggan In particular, we find that performance can comprise a powerful means of thinking about emergencies, crises, and disaster.