geography
Highlights
0º00 Navigation Part I: A Journey Across England
A lone figure follows the Greenwich Meridian across England, moving straight north regardless of obstacles, from sea to sea. The video treats the zero line of longitude as a literal path, exposing its artificial, historical origins.
Call for Proposals – Uncertain Landscapes 2: Beyond the Resources Congress
This congress will take place in Guimarães, Portugal from 24–26 November 2026. Landscapes are not backdrops. They are territories we move through, read with our bodies, and continually remake through practice and attention. Uncertain Landscapes 2: Beyond the Resources is an international, transdisciplinary congress that takes landscape as a conceptual tool for rethinking how we inhabit
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Exciting New Development Coming soon explores the everyday realities of Paddington Basin; past and present, real and imagined. Paddington Basin is a man-made area, originally the terminus point of the Grand Union Canal. Now, it is a place whose physical and ideological geography is owned and formed by a conglomerate of private companies, each promising
Emotional Geographies
EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES TOUR: MOVEMENT, BODY, MEMORY & PLACE Igualada is the capital of Anoia county. The Rec of Igualada is one of the most important industrial neighborhoods in Catalonia. During the last decades, the decline of the textile and leather industries have left an incredibly valuable heritage partially abandoned. Engaged citizens have fought for its protection
The Seventh Door
The Seventh Door is an audio walk located in central Aberdeen, created by Maya Chowdhry and Sarah Hymas for the Stepping Out project commissioned by Aberdeen Performing Arts. Launched during the Granite Noir festival in February 2017, it explores the building’s history and incorporates workshops for young people in Aberdeen.
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Carceral Geography in El Paso, TX: Sound Walks to Experience Disappeared Histories
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/carceral-geography-in-el-paso-sound-walks-to-experience-disappeared-history-tickets-166438370647 This interdisciplinary research project investigates the history of carceral geography in El Paso, TX through archival research and embodied mapping, leading to the creation of audio walking guides accessible to the public. Carceral geography is a lens on architectures and social relationships that are disappeared or displaced within neoliberal systems of incarceration, raising
Listening to Abu Dhabi
Soundscape compositions based on Abu Dhabi maps, experienced along the Abu Dhabi Corniche, illustrating changes in urban soundscapes caused by rising sea levels and temperatures. The project was created for Keira Simmons' Capstone Thesis at New York University Abu Dhabi and includes an accompanying research paper available upon request.
Articles on WLC
How the Slow Ways network could change walking in Britain | Walking holidays | The Guardian
Geographers have used lockdown to map a network of routes across Britain – joining urban areas via forgotten pathways Source: How the Slow Ways network could change walking in Britain | Walking holidays | The Guardian
• Articles elsewhere
Landscapes of visual repetition
The allure of seeing the world from above is so closely associated with the discipline of geography that some degree programs even suggest that students who “prefer the window seats on airplanes” might be potential future geographers. And while there are many reasons to be cautious about the totalizing perspective of the “God’s-eye view,” aerial images still nevertheless invite… Continue reading Landscapes of visual repetition →
Psychogeography and Psychology: In and Beyond the Discipline
Due to be published 22 April 2022 Psychogeography usually refers to radical and artistic ways of walking or to a conflation of psychology with geography. In this unique work, the author makes arguments for considering psychogeography as a way to critique the contemporary world and to consider new ways of studying the interface of human... Continue Reading →
A storyteller about storytelling
"What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all di...
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Rebecca Solnit
Reading and Walking
