Session 2

We begin by being lost.

• Rebecca Solnit and the role of maps

• Mental maps

• Atlas of Experience

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Why is it important to get lost in a new place?

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Rebecca Solnit has written on the theme of getting lost in a place.

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Discussion on the value of wandering - the dérive / psychogeography - the work of the flâneur - is it possible to organise a fieldtrip locally and to actually get the students 'lost'?  I remember our teachers getting us lost up on Kinder Scout in the mist when I was younger, although they reckoned they knew where they were.

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Mental Maps as way of representing the place

Add a new 'node' through getting lost

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Represent a place using the ideas in the classic book, 'The Atlas of Experience' which is sadly out of print.

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READING

'Trace' by Lauret Savoy explores ideas relating to place.

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