Interesting conversations this week about the potentials of walking art & other outdoor experiences as pedagogy in a covid world with colleagues who are not linked in to the arts world, so a thread on outdoor stuff in London might be useful? @AcademicChatter @EastLondonUCU 1/
2/ first up @tamashatheatre and @agencyofconey 'We Are Shadows' currently running on brick lane (tix from rich mix, very cheap) is an audio walk/adventure touching on themes of migration, culture, displacement, gentrification & food.
3/ nearby @PlatformLondon 's 'And While London burns' (free) is an operatic walk through the dark heart of global connections in the city of London, brilliant for international development students, those studying finance, economics & banking and much more!
4/ over in #BethnalGreen #TobyButler's audio memorial to the 1943 tube disaster (free) uses audio history accounts to tell the suppressed histories of WW2. So many resonances for history students, politics, urban planning, disaster response, verbatim theatre ++
5/ @EllaParryDavies work includes walks for Piccadilly Circus, Tesco's in Battersea + many more (free homemakersounds.org) these are made with migrant domestic & care workers & touch on so many themes their relevance is massive: sociology, migration, international studies...
6/ #GraemeMiller's 'Linked' an artwork in response to the M11 link road, runs from Leyton to Wanstead. A beautiful audioscape that you pick up by transistor radio - send your criminology, policing, urban planning & transport students (free) artsadmin.co.uk/project/linked/
7/ @lucyhharrison 'Mapping Your Manor' made in the run up to the 2012 Olympics (free mappingyourmanor.com) takes you on a circular route around the Olympic Park using oral testimonies to tell the stories of displacement, movement and transformation.
8/ Ports of Call, Docklands 'trails' including Silvertown & North Woolwich (@Hark_Munter worked on these) industrial histories, global trade, transport, colonial infrastructures ++ portsofcall.org.uk/download.html (free)
9/ There are many more I could add! September is a whole month of @walk_sound 's annual festival of walking (global) programme here: walklistencreate.org/sws/sws20 & @museumofwalking have a podcast of interviews with walking artists here: talkingwalking.net
10/ and the index of Walking Women that @AmySharrocks & I compiled for @thisisliveart is here: thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/walk… Also the #WalkingArtistsNetwork jiscmail is a good place to find out more: jiscmail.ac.uk/WAN
11/ for scholarly writing, walking methods & all round general inspiration check out @Walking_Lab @misha_myers @DeirdreHeddon @CathyTurner16 @Mythogeography #LucyFrears this thread focused on audio (ish) walking in London, there are lots of other kinds!
12/ Including live in-person walks, walks based on maps & instructions, walks to do in site-generic spaces(e.g. shopping centre/supermarket/green spaces), walking exercises to do at home (imaginary), remote walks (e.g. @formerfresnan 52 scores @SoniaOverall distance drifts)
13/ That's my Friday night walking-should-basically-be-everyone's-new-pedagogy tweet thread! As well as everyone's new mode of creative/academic/interdisciplinary practice.... Hit me up for all your walking-related consultancy/teaching requests 😂
14/ Oh just to add that getting students to create their own walks is one of my favourite assignments......
15/ & walking folks to follow on twitter @thelrm, @Blak_Outside, @formerfresnan, @DeirdreHeddon, @Mythogeography, @debriskent, @TriarchyPress, @Walking_Lab, @museumofwalking, @walkingartists1, @StillWalkers, @vermeire_geert, @MoW_US, @walkerspectacle, @walkingreading
16/ and @bytetime @maggieoneill9 @Maraa_Blr @vivcorringham @kerriandrewsuk @DeveronProjects @MastaBaba @urbanderive @PerditaPhillips
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