Using the city as your classroom Presentation for the International Visual Sociology Association Meetings 2012.

1. Do you see what I see?
JaskiranMathur Janine DeWitt
St. Francis College Marymount University

2. Today
• NCHC City as Text - Workshop in ABQ
• Different experiences: photography & prose
• The challenges we encountered

3. City as Text – 4 strategies
mapping - observing - listening - reflecting

4. Overview of ABQ Workshop
Day 1 Walkabout:
Impressions of ABQ
Day 2 Exploration:
Specific ABQ neighborhoods
Day 3 Turning point:
Compare ABQ with Santa Fe/ Acoma Pueblo
Day 4 Working session:
Strategies for integrating this approach

5. Day 1: The Walkabout

6. Impressions of ABQ

7. Day 2 Exploration
Knob Hill
West Park – East

8. Compare neighborhoods

9. Day 3 Train station to….
Santa Fe …. Acoma

10. Turning points…
• Is there something about the Southwest that
I see differently or understand more clearly
now than before I came?
• Can I tie this change/insight to any particular
interaction during my time here?
•What about that event shaped my change/
insight?

11. Our turning points…
Kiran
Janine

12. Day 4 Integration
1. Consider what is present and what is not
present and ask why.
2. Look through the eyes of another to create
greater awareness of your own “lens.”
3. Find “comfort” in discomfort. Accept that
confusion can be productive.
4. Move from “self-reflection” into “critical
thinking” -- this transition is vital!

13. Integration
5. Connect your personal experience to the
insights of scholars.
6. Question the prevailing power structure and
the “production” of knowledge – who has
power? Who decides?
7. Look for connections to the world
community -- think globally about your
experience.
8. Ask how you know what you know.

14. Sometimes a bug is just a bug….