Date and time
Monday 11 November 2024, 6-7.30 pm UK time
Location
Room 225, Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, WC1H 0NN
Walking as method
The study of walking is located somewhere between literary criticism, with its interest in the sensory realm of the modern subject, and a variety of ground-level interpretations of cultural and material practices.
In this urban salon event we explore how the simple act of walking can serve as an entry point for diverse perspectives on space, society, and the modern self.
About the Participants
Matthew Gandy is Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Kings College Cambridge. He is a cultural, urban, and environmental geographer with particular interests in landscape, infrastructure, and more recently bio-diversity. His most recent book Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space is winner of a 2023 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize awarded by the Foundation for Landscape Studies and UVA School of Architecture. He has also directed documentary films including the award-winning Natura Urbana: the Brachen of Berlin.
Phil Hubbard is Professor of Urban Studies at King’s College London. He has published widely on questions of class, gentrification and the impacts of urban policy on socially marginalised populations. His books include Cities and Sexualities, The Battle for the High Street, and Key Ideas in Geography: City.
Clare Qualmann is an Associate Professor at the University of East London, and an artist/researcher with an interdisciplinary performance based practice. From a background in the visual arts her work engages a range of participatory methods, and a range of media to explore and reveal the overlooked - the politics and potentials of everyday life.
James Vigus is a Senior Lecturer in Romanticism at Queen Mary. His research focuses the literature and philosophy of the period of European Romanticism, especially the early reception of German thought in Britain, with particular emphasis on Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Henry Crabb Robinson.
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