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- 1. Everyday engagement with (un)familiar places Quotidian Fieldwork Alan Parkinson King’s Ely Junior President of the Geographical Association 2021-22 Claire Kyndt King’s Ely
- 2. Everyday Geographies Fieldworkshop The plan for the next 3 hours: - An introduction to my ‘Everyday Geographies’ (GA Conference theme) - Linking the theme to the curriculum (curriculum making) - A fieldwork toolkit for exploring and engaging with (un)familiar places - FIELDWORK in and around a nearby location (around 1 hour) - Sharing, review and reflection
- 4. Image: Tom Morgan Jones
- 7. Earthrise, Bill Anders, 1968 "We set out to explore the moon and instead discovered the Earth." Image Credit: NASA
- 8. 1963
- 10. “The mundane is just as crucial and intrinsic to life as the exceptional. Finding the beauty in the small, ordinary things helps us appreciate the extraordinary even more.” (Sebastian Hill, 2017)
- 18. Georges Perec: Endotic rather than the exotic. https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/116894
- 23. The spatial realities of Covid-19 are changing how we live and forcing us to see the world through where-tinted glasses. Yet the pandemic’s most valuable lesson, should we finally be willing to receive it, is that the very concept of elsewhere is a fiction. It is naive to think of other places as disconnected from our own geography, our own lives. Where matters—absolutely. But it’s also true that we all live right here. Together. David Wolman
- 26. Ever Given https://evergiven-everywhere.glitch.me/ https://www.leventhalmap.org/projects/insizeor/
- 27. Largest container ship - 23,992 containers Ever Ace
- 28. London, where they already cover 50% of the population and have 34 dark stores. By the end of the year, they hope that 90% of Londoners will be able to get their groceries within 10 minutes from Getir.
- 29. ‘Geography, like all dynamic areas of disciplinary thought, is in a constant state of becoming’. (Lambert & Morgan, 2010)
- 32. Image: Drone shot at Solheimajokull glacier: Richard Allaway
- 34. “Anthropogenic creations called into being by the meeting of humans and their environment. They are prominent among our contributions to our time and space. We make what has been called patterned ground. Place-making is a signal of our species. We make good ones and bad ones, and plenty of neither-here-nor-there ones. Good, bad or indifferent, they operate on all their constituents.” Tim Dee, 2018
- 36. Place attachment
- 37. South Polar Research Institute - very close to here. Frank Debenham, OBE Frank Debenham, from 1931 to his retirement in 1949, was the first holder of the Chair of Geography in the University of Cambridge. GA President 1952 - 70 years ago.
- 38. The first meeting of the Committee of Management took place on January 1926, The Inauguration Ceremony was in May – an exhibition in Sedgwick House, followed by a dinner given by the Vice-Chancellor in Downing College. It was a grand affair, amongst others attending were Sir T. W. Edgeworth David (who had been part of Shackleton’s Nimrod expedition and who had reached the South Magnetic Pole) and Scott’s widow Kathleen (Mrs. Hilton Young). Kathleen’s husband, Commander Hilton Young, proposed the toast. The inaugural address by Dr. Fridtjof Nansen the Norwegian explorer, scientist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was cancelled because a coal strike prevented him getting to the meeting.
- 39. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/frank-debenham18831965/14948BBD2F5 1F823C6ED0C0FF9E1A174 "Even though the geographer... has the ability to see more than others on his travels because he has cultivated special faculties for seeing, he will, I hope, remain a normal person. Though his work will give him infinite satisfaction, his keenest pleasure in travel will still come through his senses. Travel, to a geographer, should be a richer experience than it is to other people..... Bon Voyage, Good Travelling to you all..."
- 40. Fieldwork - Introduction Alan Parkinson Claire Kyndt King’s Ely
- 42. Rex Walford Wolfson College Homerton College Worldwise Week
- 43. L Dudley Stamp Land Use Survey
- 44. Sidney Wooldridge Geoffrey Hutchings "It is a mistake to conduct an instructional expedition which has not been thoroughly rehearsed. Teaching does not go smoothly if the leader has trouble in finding his way, or if the timing goes wrong. There may be something appealing in the idea of teacher and students joining together in the spirit of exploration and discovery, but a teacher who tries to break new ground in company with his students can be putting himself to a severe test. He may come out of it well as a companion but he will seldom in such circumstances be able to give a first-class piece of teaching".
- 45. Nick Lapthorn
- 46. Patrick Bailey “Fieldwork is the best and most immediate means of bringing the two aspects of the subject (i.e. a body of knowledge and a distinctive method of study) together in the experience of the pupil. Therefore, fieldwork is a necessary part of geographical education; it is not an optional extra” (Bailey, 1974)
- 50. Mundane Methods Helen Holmes and Sarah Marie Hall https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526139719/
- 53. Clifford Geertz – “thick description” Geertz described the practice of thick description as a way of providing cultural context and meaning that people place on actions, words, things, etc. Thick descriptions provide enough context so that a person outside the culture can make meaning of the behavior. Thin description by contrast, is stating facts without such meaning or significance. Surveys provide thin descriptions at best. We are suggesting that thick descriptions can be useful to people within an organization in order to better understand themselves and the complexity of organizational life. They can then see their own culture in the subtle ways that cannot be exposed by surveys and sound bites alone. https://thecynefin.co/the-thick-and-thin-of-it
- 54. “When we travel, we travel through an infinity of simultaneous stories…. and maps are a surface over which these stories are played out…” Doreen Massey GA Conference Lecture
- 55. Parker’s Piece Source: FSC Creative Fieldwork Guide
- 57. SW Geography - OPAL - won GA award https://www.geographysouthwest.co.uk/
- 60. The Dear Data project ● A year-long, analog data drawing project by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec. ● Living on different sides of the Atlantic (UK and USA). ● Each week, and for a year, they collected and measured a particular type of data about their lives, used this data to make a drawing on a postcard-sized sheet of paper, and then sent their postcard to each other.
- 62. ● Micro – in scale ● Everyday – so that all students could access and complete. ● Shareable – to broaden and enrich the data. ● Simple - Easy designs that gives the students the targeted information they need. ● Rich – had to include at least 2 data collection elements.
- 63. BQ: What factors affect a place's ability to adopt greener transport? SQ: What are the different ways I travel and why? Method MOBILITY 1) What is my journey? 2) How will I journey? 3) How far is my journey? 4) What is the purpose of my journey? 5) What does this say about myself? 1. Lines = a journey is made. Lines are drawn within the type of transport taken for the journey. In line with a pressing need to change our reliance on fossil fuels, this investigation brings this down to the role we may play in adopting greener ways into our everyday. How can I adopt greener transport? What type of journeys do I make and what type of transport am I using for these journeys? Can this be changed and what would this mean for my personal carbon footprint? 3. Line colour = purpose of my journey. C a r Bik e Wal k P u b l i c t r a n s p o r t 2. Line length = the distance I will travel. 1k m 2km 3 km 4+km Shops Date data is collected =
- 64. The main story is Reflections
- 65. BQ: To what extent does quality of life vary between places? SQ: The story of two streets – how does quality of life vary? Method 1. Each symbol = one event 2. Colour = what the event is about 3. The symbol’s pattern = strength of impact. VARIATIONS 1) What events improve my quality of life? 2) What events make my quality of life poorer? 3) Just how better/worse? 4) What does this say about living on my street? Quality of life comparisons are often made between cities, towns, areas, wards…all relatively large scale when it comes to the everyday. How does wellbeing and standard of living differ on a much smaller scale….between two streets in the same place? Over the next week, record events that have either a negative or positive impact on your quality of life. Location of street = Date data is collected = Any other comments = meh Strongly impacted Very strongly impacted
- 66. Events that improve my quality of life Events that make my quality of life poorer The main story is Reflections
- 67. BQ: To what extent does quality of life vary between places? SQ: The story of two streets – how does quality of life vary? Method 1. Each symbol = one event 2. Colour = what the event is about 3. The symbol’s number = strength of feeling Noise 1⃣ 2⃣ 3⃣ Quality of life comparisons are often made between cities, towns, areas, wards…all relatively large scale when it comes to the everyday. How does the standard of living differ on a much smaller scale….between two streets in the same place? Record observations and events that have either a negative or positive impact on the quality of life on two sides of Parker’s Piece. Location of streets = Date and time data is collected = meh Moderate impact Strong impact Demographic profile of person collecting = Events that improve my quality of life Events that make my quality of life poorer
- 69. Listening to conversation What do people in this place talk about? • Find a spot to sit or linger • Listen • Record the words and conversations that are had over a set period Weather 1. One circle = a topic of conversation 2. Colour = favourites? Positive/negative? Demographic?
- 70. Start of journey
- 71. “Tentative d’épuisement d’un lieu dans Cambridge” Perec had a sense of what constituted life, reality. It wasn’t what was remarkable, extraordinary or eventful. It was what happened daily, that passed without comment. The regular and banal, what was habitual and quotidian and therefore necessary in its tedious laying down of substructure, the strata of building, the substance that escaped notice, the element and condition he called the infra-ordinary. https://bordercrossingsmag.com/article/georges-perec-soft-chalk-a nd-pigeons
- 72. Les Back – Thinking Allowed - Cafes https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06qkp8j
- 73. Suzanne Hall City, Citizen & Street (2012) The interesting thing about a street is that it is central to the life of an area, but it also extends past the area, linking places and people. An urban street situates and connects, both focusing and expanding the possibilities for contact between different individuals and groups.
- 74. Illustration: Tom Morgan Jones
- 75. Mission:Explore Parker’s Piece Carter, M() Catching the spirit; training teachers to be playful, http://www.issa.nl/memb ers/articles/pdf/5008937.p df Have teachers ‘unlearned’ the importance of play in their lives? (Carter,1992)
- 76. Sound CDs - ChattyMaps Urban sound has a huge influence over how we perceive places. Yet, city planning is concerned mainly with noise, simply because annoying sounds come to the attention of city officials in the form of complaints, while general urban sounds cannot be easily captured at city scale. https://goodcitylife.org/chattymaps/project.php
- 78. Micro mapping a journey In this activity, map the route you take in this place. Create a starting point X and use the squares to decide a scale. Add the details of your journey to the side: • The date of the journey • The start and end point • Stops along the way • The timings Are there other ways you can ‘layer’ geographical information? E.g. symbols to indicate particularly activities, feelings or objects along the route?
- 79. Recording the sounds of Parker’s Piece Conversations Animals Vehicles Activities The importance of sound to the city https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-04-27/how-paris-is- waging-a-war-on-noise-pollution
- 80. Geography is location. It is interconnections, flows and networks. It is both materiality and discourse. It is grounded, but in flux. It has a multiplicity of histories and futures. It is local, global and relational. It is space and time. It is undergoing continual augmentation by the anthroposphere. It is made up of memory and imagination. It is a platform and a process. It both shapes and is shaped by geometries of power. It is experienced, produced and continuously brought into being. And, it is, of course, also digital. Graham and Dittus, 2022 https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340180/geographies-of-digital-exclusion/
- 81. Survey123 Creating a multi-media collage of this place and surroundings. An assemblage. Iris Huhn’s work on Place as Assemblage
- 82. FlightRadar24 Vertical geographies Look up… Stories of the people above you… https://www.flightradar24.com/
- 84. The 99% Invisible City
- 87. Kate McLean - Sensory walk kit https://sensorymaps.com/
- 88. Movement - trajectories - following James Cheshire - tracking animals - GA Conference Public Lecture GA Public Lecture can be viewed online for free on the GEO website.
- 89. Graffiti - Strava trails / OS Maps app Challenge you to make your initials. Along the way, what do you observe?
- 90. Kevin Boniface – R4 programme Huddersfield Species of Spaces https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000x04n
- 91. Gordon Cullen - Townscape A city is more than the sum of its inhabitants. It has the power to generate a surplus of amenity, which is one reason why people like to live in communities rather than in isolation. Now turn to the visual impact which a city has on those who live in it or visit it. I wish to show that an argument parallel to the one put forward above holds good for buildings: bring people together and they create a collective surplus of enjoyment; bring buildings together and collectively they can give visual pleasure which none can give separately.
- 92. Townscape Elements With thanks to Stephen Scoffham
- 93. Corners / Intersections Stand and observe.
- 94. Henri Lefebvre
- 95. Revolutionary events generally take place in the street. Doesn’t this show that disorder of the street engenders another kind of order? The urban space of the street is a place for talk, given over as much to the exchange of words and signs as it is to the exchange of things. A place where speech becomes writing. A place where speech can become ‘savage’ and, by escaping rules and institutions, inscribe itself on walls. GRAFFITI / STREET WRITING
- 97. Morag Rose – Liverpool University LRM - Disability rights Loiterers Resistance Movement http://thelrm.org/morag-rose
- 98. Town and gown - term time… Anglia Ruskin
- 99. Global connections - the world in Parker’s Piece People Commodities Languages Brands Foods Culture - music, art, fashion, hairstyles…
- 100. Hamish Fulton / Richard Long - Artworks made by walking
- 101. Ethnographic – participant observation
- 104. Further reading
- 105. Sharon Witt : Derive / cards – Sonia Overall Follow a hat Turn right Follow something red Turn Left
- 106. Spaces: Investigating the different spaces and their use Carmona,M.(2010a).Contemporary Public Space, Part Two: Classification. Journal of Urban Design, 15(2),
- 108. 2nd edition
- 109. Keri Smith / Phil Smith / Knowhere Guides •Psychogeographical… •Liminal movements - following lines https://www.triarchypress.net/smithereens.html
- 110. Datashine - secondary data on Cambridge https://datashine.org.uk/
- 111. Census 2021 - resources First data now out.
- 113. GeogPod - Paula Richardson and myself… https://geogpod.podbean.com/e/episode-53-alan-parkinson-and-paula-richardson-fieldwork-a-shared-exp erience-for-everybody/
- 114. Presented in July 2022 Edited version