Title: Mapping A/r/tography: Walking for Place-Conscious Pedagogies of Practice
Date: Mon, April 8, 2019
Time: 10:25 to 11:55am
Location: Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Panelists: Dr. Lexi Lasczik Cutcher, Dr. Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, Dr. Adrienne Boulton, Dr. Dan Barney, Rocío Lara-Osuna, Marzieh Mosavarzadeh, Ken Morimoto, and Nicole Lee
Chair: Nicole Lee
Discussant: Dr. Margaret Macintyre Latta
Presentations:
- Walking Propositions: Coming to Know A/r/tographically - Nicole Lee, Ken Morimoto, Marzieh Mosavarzadeh, Rita Irwin
- Mapping the Gondwana Rain Forest at Natural Arch - Lexi Lasczik Cutcher and Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles
- A/r/tography as a Pedagogical Strategy - Dan Barney
- Embodying Art Practice: Post-Secondary International Student Films as a Place-Making Practice - Adrienne Boulton
- Public art Archipelegos: Mapping Aesthetic Relations of Pre-service Teachers with Public Art in Granada (Spain) - Rocío Lara-Osuna (see video below)
Session Abstract:
Drawing from ongoing work of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded ‘Mapping A/r/tography’ international partnership, panelists share cartographies of transnational storytelling through a/r/tography, specifically movement (walking/hiking/trekking) and the critical creation of images, performances, and texts. Team members, located in Canada (Vancouver, BC; Regina, SK; Montreal, QC), China, Japan, Spain, Australia, United States, UK, and Brazil, examine how a/r/tographic practices are taken up at a local level in different parts of the world. Sites of interest include significant historic-contemporary cultural routes such as Canada's Trans Canada Trail, China's Silk Road, Japan's Kumano Kodo Trail, Spain's Camino de Santiago, and Australia's Gondwana Subtropical Rainforests. The objective of this symposium is to offer a model from which researchers can work across geographic scales and create a collective imaginary of proactive cultural exchange and relationship building through a/r/tographic encounters. The intersection of a/r/tography as research methodology, walking as mode of inquiry, and place-consciousness as critical pedagogy is explored as a way to transcend and expand the borders of education to become more emergent, transnational, and transcultural in the 21st century.