A selection of Making Routes related publications exploring creative mobilities
Books
Bissell, L., Lamb, J. and Overend, D. (eds.) (2026 – in preparation) Postdigital Learning Journeys. Springer.
Overend, D. (2023) Performance in the Field: Interdisciplinary practice-as-research. Palgrave Macmillan.
Bissell, L. and Overend, D. (2021) Making Routes: Journeys in performance 2010-2020. Triarchy Press
Articles, chapters, and other publications
Bissell, L. and Overend, D. (2025) Hope Street: Reimagining learning journeys, Stories of Hope: Reimagining Education. Eds. Abegglen, S.; Burns, T.; Madhok, R.; Heller, R.F.; Neuhaus, F.; Sandars, J.; Sinfield, S.; Gitanjali Singh, U.. Open Book Publishers, pp. 163–172.
Bissell, L., Lamb, J. and Overend, D. (2025) Postdigital learning journeys. Postdigital Science and Education. Vol. 7, pp. 327–335.
Bissell, L., Young, A., Charlton, S., & Hargan, S. (2024) Pandemic Performance Portals. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 29(2), 330-334.
Bissell, L. (2024) Performing Processions: Premonitions and palimpsests. Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts , 28(5), 41-49.
Cullen, C., Jay, D., Overend, D. and Winter, M. (2024) Creating Edinburgh: diffracting interdisciplinary learning and teaching in the contemporary city. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11, 1151.
Overend, D., Ewing, S., and Swanton, D. (2024) “Loose Ends and Missing Links”: Learning Journeys in the Postdigital City. In: Lamb, J., Carvalho, L. (eds) Postdigital Learning Spaces: Towards Convivial, Equitable, and Sustainable Spaces for Learning. Springer
Bissell, L. (2023). Performance Portals at COP 26: Backpages. Contemporary Theatre Review, 33(3), 317-329.
Bissell, L. (2022). Shorelines: Choreographies of Remembrance and Forgetting. In: Moving Spaces and Places: Interdisciplinary Essays on Transformative Movements through Space, Place, and Time. Emerald Publishing Limited. pp. 113-128.
Overend, D. (2021) Field works: Wild experiments for performance research. Studies in Theatre and Performance 43:1, pp. 70-90.
Bissell, L. (2020) Ecologies of Practice: Landscaping with Beavers. RUUKKU: Studies in Artistic Research, 14, n.p. Article 12.
Overend, D., Lorimer, J. and Schreve, D. (2020) The bones beneath the streets: drifting through London’s Quaternary. Cultural Geography 27:3, pp. 453-475.
Overend, D. (trans. Ayşe Draz) (2019) Rotalar Yaratmak: Canlı Sanatta Yolculuklar. Turkey: PerformIstanbul.
Overend, D. and Lorimer, J. (2018) Wild Performatives: Experiments in Rewilding at the Knepp Wildland Project. GeoHumanities 4:2, pp. 527-542
Bissell, L. and Overend, D. (2015) Regular Routes: Deep Mapping a Performative Counterpractice for the Daily Commute. Humanities 4:3, pp.476-499. Also available to download or purchase in a book on Deep Mapping, edited by Les Roberts (2016).
Bissell, L. and Overend, D. (2015) Reflections on a Mobile Train Conference from Helsinki to Rovaniemi. Cultural Geographies in Practice 22:4, pp.731–735
Overend, D. (2015) Dramaturgies of Mobility: On the Road with Rob Drummond’s Bullet Catch. Studies in Theatre and Performance 35:1, pp.36-51
Bissell, L. and Overend, D. (2014) Rhythmic Routes: Developing a Nomadic Physical Practice for the Daily Commute. [Keynote paper], Scottish Journal of Performance 2:1, pp.29-54
Overend, D. (2013) Making Routes: Relational Journeys in Contemporary Performance. Studies in Theatre and Performance 33:3, pp.365-381
Overend, D. (2013) World Wide Wandering: E-drifting in Paris and London. Scottish Journal of Performance 1:1, pp.31–52
Overend, D. (2012) Making Routes: Journeys in Live Art. [Study Room Guide], London: Live Art Development Agency
Overend, D. (2012) Sites of Illusion: Performing the Spatial Stories of the Guided Tour. Scandinavian Journal of Tourism and Hospitality 12:1, pp.44-54
Book reviews: Nomadic Theatre: Mobilising Theory and Practice on the European Stage by Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink. Contemporary Theatre Review 29:4, pp. 483-485; Mythogeography: A Guide to Walking Sideways by Phil Smith. New Theatre Quarterly 26:4, p.399
