Walking with Infrastructures
Urban Thresholds, Photo Walks and Narratives on the Move along the Tangenziale Nord, Padua
Keywords:
walking, geohumanities, infrastructure, storytelling, photography, photo-walkingAbstract
Walking has been increasingly explored as a research method, an educational tool, a dissemination practice and a social practice for knowledge co-production between academics and local communities. In this paper, the walking practice will be explored from a narrative and geographical perspective informed by literary, urban and cultural geography; mobility studies, and in particular the expanding field of mobility and the humanities; and the geohumanities. More specifically, this paper will work on the lines of convergence between space-centred and narrative approaches, between geographical and artistic research, between individual and collective walking stories in urban contexts. The empirical example explored in this paper is based in Italy starts from Stephanie Springgay and Sarah E. Truman’s conception of ‘walking-with’. In particular, the example explores the possibility to walk with texts, with mobility infrastructures, and with art-based methodologies in urban contexts.References
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