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Walking geographies
Walking geographies
“I have lived here 20 years, but never realised that this lovely garden was so close to where I live.”
“Re-colonising the public realm” is a jargon term that describes how people today are taking over public space for the purposes it was originally earmarked.
People are getting out and about on foot in their local neighbourhoods and discovering places on their doorsteps, or within a few hundred metres of where they live.
Research has shown that children driven to school in cars have a limited knowledge of the neighbourhood around their homes and their schools and almost total ignorance of what lies between.
If we are going to see a significant change in our car-dominated society, and really get lots more people out and about on foot or bicycle, we need to find effective ways of providing information about what is within walking distance of where they happen to be, and the confidence to walk or cycle there.
If you are involved in working out how to share and disseminate similar information then Walking Geographies is an event to which you should come. Walking Geographies will provide you with an opportunity of showcasing the work you are doing, learn from others working in a similar field, and possibly be the catalyst to take your project further.
Hosted by Rethinking Cities, Mapping for Change and The Chorley Institute at University College London, Walking Geographies fills a need, giving you the technical facilities and bringing people like you together to share and develop your projects. We envisage the format to be an exhibition space for posters, multi-media and Internet presentations, and the opportunity for 12 project managers to present an aspect of their work in an innovative way: each presenter will have 4 minutes with a maximum of 20 slides.
Come and meet leaders in the field of:
• Spatial planning
• Geographical information systems
• Locational mapping
• Locative media
• Journey and route planners
• Social Marketing and Behaviour change
• Outdoor media
• Hand-held and Mobile GPS technologies
• Human movement / Human Centred Mobility
• Pedestrian movement / Mobility management
• Mapping media
Go to the Talkshops form to register for this event