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Walking the city: a strategy for inclusive learning and critical engagement beyond the classroom
Dr Steve MillingtonManchester Metropolitan UniversityNorth West STEM Project
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MMU’s Birley Fields Proposal
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MMU’s Birley Fields Proposal
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Introduction
• But it’s just walking isn’t it?
• Walking in Manchester
• Key activities and findings
• Preliminary conclusions
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But it’s just walking isn’t it?
• Walking in popular culture
• Ingold & Vergunst, 2008; Solnit, 2006; Sinclair, 2002
• Walking embedded into a wide range of practices
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But it’s just walking isn’t it?• The figure of the flâneur
(Benjamin, 1929)
• Participatory research tool
• Mobile methodologies
• “go-along” (Kusenbach, 2003)
• Mobility and society (Cresswell, 2006; Edensor, 2000; Sheller and Urry, 2006)
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But it’s just walking isn’t it?• A pedogical device for
learning beyond the classroom (Porter, 2008)
• Fostering deeper understandng
• Engaging non-traditonal learners
• Accessibile research and teaching device
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But it’s just walking isn’t it?• Geography field work
tradition
– From the Cook’s Tour to critical field engagement
– Capacity of walking to explore the specificities of place (Pinder, 2008)
– “Urban experience from down below” (de Certeau, 1984)
– A sense of place
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Peace, Vote Robinson
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But it’s just walking isn’t it?
“Places are coincidences of events, emotions, memories and artefacts remarkable for being simulataneous and connected” (Anderson and Moles, 2008)
Sensory geographies:Affect and emotionalMaterialities of placesSensorial experience of placeThe immanent and unexpected
Walkers “produce themselves in space at the same time they produce space” Simonsen (2008)
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I'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from Manchester wayI get all me pleasure the hard moorland wayI may be a wageslave on MondayBut I am a free man on Sunday
From Manchester Rambler (Ewan McColl)
Walking in Manchester
Manchester legend – Benny Rothman
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Walking in Manchester• Walking as resistance
• Walking and political protest– Ramblers Association and Mass
Trespass
• Psychogeography– Situationist International– Dérive or the drift– Manchester PsychogeographicUnit
• Continuing significance of walking based arts and political groups
– Urbis Research Forum– Loiterers Resistance Movement– Manchester Zedders– Manchester Modernist Society
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Key activities and findings• Since December 2009 six tours
completed + one more scheduled
• 120+ people
• Wide range of backgrounds from activists to senior MMU managers and support staff
• Mixed race, gender, sexuality, inter-generational
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Key activities and findings• Contentious relationship
between Hulme and the universities
• Who is educating who?
• Shifting insititutional culture of the university
• Participation of senior MMU staff has been essential
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Key activities and findings“the process/rhythm of walking in landscape animating the brain the self in relation to it – in ways which generate emotive, affective and imaginative opportunities or demands or impulses” (Jones, 2008)
Intimacy
Interaction
Multiple knowledges
Beyond the classroom
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Key activities and findings• Themes arising
– rights of access– nature and open space– planning and community– democracy and decision making– Architecture and urban design– urban regeneration– community and its loss– history – w/c identity and heritage– Housing– creativity and space– Contested aesethics– Urban elites
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Conclusions• Public engagement benefits and
synergies, but uncomfortable positionality
• Educating the educators – changing insitutional attitudes towards university’s publics
• Critical value of walking as an learning and engagement device
• Repositioning geography as an academic discipline
• Need for continual monitoring and evaluation
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