Dr Kaya Barry1, Ms Diti Bhattacharya1 1Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia   Wayfaring designs organise movement through transit spaces using representational cues embedded in the architecture, lighting, colour, and signage. This is exemplified in airports where colour coding is universalised though...

Dr Rebecca Olive1 1The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia   ‘Bluespace’ and ‘greenspace’ are terms used to refer to nature, wilderness and outdoors spaces. The emphasis on colour evokes the more-than-human elements that make up these spaces – water, trees...

Dr Tim Edensor1 1Melbourne University   This paper will introduce the session by sketching out what geographers might focus on in considering how we can account for the vital role of colour in space, place and landscape. I suggest that...

Dr Nina Williams1 1UNSW, Canberra, Australia   Artistic practices are often understood as a form of communication, an act of denoting or connoting a message. Yet we often find that precisely what is felt in an aesthetic moment is irreducible...

Miss Breeze Mojel1 1UNSW Canberra, Campbell, Australia, 2The Difference Lab   For over a century, thinkers of fashion have theorised the collective as being bound together by forces and ideas external to their members with the role of ideology seen...

Dr Thomas Keating1 1UNSW Canberra   In his book Neo-finalism, the French philosopher Raymond Ruyer (1952 [2016]) describes a crisis of contemporary thought – a moment brought about by a false analogy between the ‘thinking’ computer and the ‘thinking’ human...

A/Prof. Michelle Duffy1 1University Of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia   The Encounter (2011) is a solo theatre performance based on Petru Popescu’s book Amazon Beaming (1993), which in turn is an account of Loren McIntyre, a National Geographic photographer who found himself...

Prof. J-D Dewsbury1, Dr Scott Sharpe1 1UNSW Canberra, Canberra, Australia   This paper theorises the relationship between desire and the unconscious by recasting a major theme of this session; namely behaviour. At least in some versions of social theory, behaviour...

Mr Yoshi Abe1, Dr Tod Jones2 1William Angliss Institute, Melbourne, Australia, 2Curtin University, Perth, Australia   This research applies the theoretical framework of evolutionary economic geography (EEG) to look at how tourism attractions evolve in remote regions where cultural traditions...

Ms Quynh Pham1 1Guss, Rmit University, Melbourne, Australia   This study investigates stakeholders’ experiences of landscape change in the peri-urban region of Hai Phong City, Vietnam. Agriculture in this region is being replaced in some areas by leisure-based consumption in...