This is about doing things, as experiential learning. About delivering professional practice with groups or clients. The stuff here is mostly practical ideas about things you can use with other people, be you an artist, or an outdoor educator or a health professional or a teacher.
A proposal for working with art making as a mode of enquiry and discourse as a complement to more quantitative approaches. Art making outdoors is a good way to explore and express personal experience of place. … Read More Rewilding on the Urban Fringe – A Proposal
Reflecting on my experience of my Solway Walk.… Read More Solway Walk – Thinking and Reporting
About the actual experience of walking an image of an idea on a beach on the Solway Firth.… Read More Solway Walk – The Experience
Introducing walking an image of an idea of experiential learning. … Read More Solway Walk – Introduction
In our latest paper we propose an approach to creating a new relationship with nature at a societal scale based on improving nature connectedness using a framework called the ‘pathways to nature connectedness’. … Read More Applying the Pathways to Nature Connectedness at Societal Scale
I wanted to bring together poetry and place by embedding words in landscape. Much of my art making involves walking and exploring boundaries between the digital and the analogue, online and offline, words as performance and as text. I am interested in art as research, art as adventure and the outdoors as art. This brought… Read More Walking Poem
Social distancing was introduced to the UK around March 17, 2020 On the basis that art and performance can be used as research, to explore and express personal experience, I wondered what would happen if I walked through Carlisle town centre maintaining 2m social distancing, but do it as performance, choreographed like a dance or… Read More Performing Distancing
How performance uses empty spaces to create new places.… Read More Quote – John Berger on place and performance
I am planning an online experiential learning workshop using Zoom. This is a good balanced article about how it effects your head. What struck me in the prep for the Zoom session was how you are in two places at once, online and offline, which takes some getting used to.… Read More ‘Zoom fatigue’ is taxing the brain. Here’s why that happens.
An article about the importance of walking a city to get to know it fully. A long read.… Read More The modern day flâneur