Methodological rift: Applying infrastructure activism's ‘skin in the game’ embodied art research methods to urban green infrastructure planning

Abstract

In this article, we explore the extent to which applying embodied, ‘skin in the game’ methods used in infrastructure activism (a contemporary art practice) can help expand the toolkit of methods applied in action research on infrastructures, interactions between humans and more-than-humans and urban socio-environmental processes in planning. In particular, we focus on two cases of infrastructure activism: the Amsterdam Zuidoost Food Forest (VBAZO), in Amsterdam's South East, and the KRATER project in Ljubljana's city centre. In our discussion of these projects, we explore the embodied research practices that infrastructure activists have developed to change not only urban green infrastructures but also researcher-actors’ own perspectives.