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Rebecca Solnit and the role of maps
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Mental maps
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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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The Atlas of Experience - second hand copies are available via Amazon and other bookshops. For a while, I used to buy copies whenever I saw them as they make excellent gifts for geographers.