| Title | 13. Hope Street |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Reimagining learning journeys |
| Contributor | Laura Bissell (author) |
| David Overend (author) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0462.13 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0462/chapters/10.11647/obp.0462.13 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Laura Bissell; David Overend |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2025-07-02 |
| Long abstract | This chapter explores an artistic exchange project between Glasgow and Mexico City that unfolded during COP26, the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference. Situated within the framework of creative mobilities, the chapter examines how journeys—both physical and digital—can be reimagined as sites of learning, transformation, and hope. Drawing on the concept of learning journeys, it investigates how participatory and community-based experiences generate meaningful encounters and new ways of knowing. Through co-authored reflections, the chapter emphasises the experimental and generative potential of such exchanges, proposing them as hopeful responses to global challenges like the climate crisis. Ultimately, it argues for the value of creative adventures as a means of opening up alternative pathways for education, collaboration, and sustainable futures. |
| Page range | pp. 163–172 |
| Print length | 10 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Dr Laura Bissell is an Atheneum Research Fellow and Lecturer in Contemporary Performance Practice at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Laura has co-edited/authored Performance in a Pandemic (Routledge, 2022), Making Routes: Journeys in Performance 2010–2020 (Triarchy, 2021), and Bubbles: Reflections on Becoming Mother (Luath, 2021). She has a PhD (The Female Body, Technology and Performance: Performing a Feminist Praxis), a research MPhil (The Posthuman Body in Performance), and a first-class MA (Hons) degree in English Literature and Theatre Studies from the University of Glasgow. Laura has a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Arts Education and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Laura has been External Examiner for the MA in Contemporary Performance Practice at the University of Salford and European Theatre Arts at Rose Bruford College. Laura’s poetry, creative writing, and academic writing has been published in journals and anthologies and her research interests include: contemporary performance practices, technology, feminism, ecology, interdisciplinarity, and journeys. Laura is part of a long-term collaboration with Dr David Overend called Making Routes. She is currently writing a book on performance and “matrescence” and co-editing a special edition of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media.
David Overend is a Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He researches interdisciplinary education, creative fieldwork and contemporary theatre and performance. As a director, David has worked for the National Theatre of Great Britain and several other theatres and has toured internationally with award-winning productions. His books include Performance in the Field: Interdisciplinary Practice-as-Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), Making Routes: Journeys in performance 2010–2020, co-authored with Laura Bissell (Triarchy Press, 2021), and an edited collection, Rob Drummond: Plays with Participation (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2021). David is currently working with Edinburgh Futures Institute as Deputy Director of the new MA (Hons) Interdisciplinary Futures.