The HPU is in summer residency at WalkingLab, OISE (University of Toronto)!
In 2016, the HPU spent three months in residence with WalkingLab in order to further research and expand our methodologies, specifically our “Strata-Walk” technique that urge you to identify the different layers of strata that make up place as a way of provoking your attention, and can be adapted to any method of mobility. As participatory workshops, the Strata-Walks function as public pedagogy and relational art, where the emphasis is on the inter-relationships between people and environments, and the creative element does not lie in the making of an object, but in an event. The prompts can be used in groups or by a solo walker. As a method, it focuses on sharpening the mind’s attention to place, as well as the body’s.
WalkingLab is an active laboratory for research and development on walking methodologies. It aims to generate a diverse range of walking research related to civic engagement and critical public pedagogy, experiment with different media and mobile technologies, and compose an anarchive that attends to the live, temporal and performative nature of walking research. http://walkinglab.org/residency/
Read our contributions to the WalkingLab blog, as those of other residents, here!
In 2016, the HPU spent three months in residence with WalkingLab in order to further research and expand our methodologies, specifically our “Strata-Walk” technique that urge you to identify the different layers of strata that make up place as a way of provoking your attention, and can be adapted to any method of mobility. As participatory workshops, the Strata-Walks function as public pedagogy and relational art, where the emphasis is on the inter-relationships between people and environments, and the creative element does not lie in the making of an object, but in an event. The prompts can be used in groups or by a solo walker. As a method, it focuses on sharpening the mind’s attention to place, as well as the body’s.
WalkingLab is an active laboratory for research and development on walking methodologies. It aims to generate a diverse range of walking research related to civic engagement and critical public pedagogy, experiment with different media and mobile technologies, and compose an anarchive that attends to the live, temporal and performative nature of walking research. http://walkinglab.org/residency/
Read our contributions to the WalkingLab blog, as those of other residents, here!
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