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James Dyer

James Dyer writes eclectically about Graphic Design and communication. He most recent book is Graphic Events: A Realist Account of Graphic Design.


I have ten years of experience teaching academic writing to undergraduate and post-graduate students in schools of Art and Design. The assignments range from short-form essays to longer-form dissertations and postgraduate theses. I give lectures on critical theory and design history, seminars on assigned texts, workshops on creative writing and academic conventions, as well as consultations on self-negotiated research topics.

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39 Steps Writers’ Showcase

39 Steps Writers’ Showcase event introduces new writing from 19 authors in our micro-flash fiction writing competition and includes readings of their prose. Run in conjunction with Sampson Low Publishers, with a special prize given by Caroline Gannon, the walk · listen · create writing competition attracted scores of entries. Challenged to write a story

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Walking Writers’ Circle – Walking Together

An “Invitation Only” event for shortlisted authors in the Walking Together writing ocmpetition with VIP guests. VIP guests confirmed include Amelia Hodsdon, our current writer-in-residence, and Ann de Forest, author, poet and editor of “Ways of Walking”.

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The Works of Alexandra and Jyanne

This website will lead you to the collected works of Alexandra Samarova and Jyanne Palaruan. The website is a Notion site and is being updated constantly.

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The Privilege of Walking and Writing: A Journey Down the Street and Across the World 

During the past many summers, I’ve explored the relationship between walking and writing. As Kathleen Rooney, our flâneuse laureate of Chicago, wrote “A walk is almost never the fastest way to get somewhere. But both walks and poems can afford a more textured and deep experience of space and time.” Source: The Privilege of Walking

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pedestrian acts

By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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