CONTENTS Illlustration credits vii Contributors ix Preface xiii Acknowledgements xiv Introduction 1 Suzanne Ewing Field/work practice 7 Introduction 7 Jeremie Michael McGowan Collaborative practices: hybrid ethnographies and fieldwork approaches in Barabazaar, Kolkata, India 11 Martin Beattie The erotics of fieldwork in Learning from Las Vegas 22 Michael J. Ostwald and Michael Chapman Inside the cave, outside the discipline 35 Catharina Gabrielsson Group pioneering: Robert Smithson and circle's early forays to the field 43 Emily Scott Field note 1: on inhabiting 'thickness' 56 Andrea Kahn Field/work and site 61 Introduction 61 Chris Speed Landscape with statues: recording the public sculpture of Sussex 65 Jill Seddon Fieldwork in public space assessment: William Holly Whyte and the Street Life Project 1970-1975 72 Miriam Fitzpatrick Vietnamese field/work: the case of Hanoi's water urbanism 81 Kelly Shannon Open field: Documentary game 92 Renata Tyszczuk The critical where of the field: a reflection on fieldwork as a situated process of creative research 101 Ella Chmielewska and Sebastian Schmidt-Tomczak Field note 2: A voyage into oral field/work 110 Alan Dein Field/work techniques 115 Introduction 115 Victoria Clare Bernie Drawing sites : : Site drawings 119 Paul Emmons Field diaries 129 Prue Chiles and Carolyn Butterworth Contested fields: perfection and compromise at Caruso St John's Museum of Childhood 138 Mhairi McVicar Editing the field: video tales from globalised cityscapes 151 Krystalla Kamvasinou Blighted 160 Igor Marjanovic and Lindsey Stouffer Field note 3: 'Refuge' - moving between research and practice 169 Philipp Misselwitz and Can Altay Afterword: Working (through) the field 172 Jane Rendell Bibliography 178 Index 191