Today we returned to the bank of the pond where we (re)encountered the geese. We watch them swim, a passive observation until they begin to approach the shore, and once again they make it known that our presence is disruptive. They advance toward us and once again we retreat to […]
We often walk to the clay-bottomed, borrow pit pond at the northern side of the Quarry site. There is a wooden boardwalk that stretches out overtop the water and the children lean over the railing with excitement when the ducks and geese swim near. But there is a distance that […]
How might we consider the non-innocence of our encounters with place? Our walks are continually entangled with/in the waste histories of the Quarry and we are implicated in the ongoing waste crisis. The complexity of thinking our walks as a moment in time, but also a dialogue with both past(s) […]
In an earlier post I wrote about attuning to the concept of wit(h)ness marks as a proposition for pedagogical encounters with/in the Glenridge Quarry Naturalization Site. In this photoblog I will offer some of the materials we have encountered while walking with the Quarry that has inspired our practice of […]
This post is reproduced from the Common Worlds Research Collective’s series of microblogs. The original post can be found here: http://commonworlds.net/how-might-attuning-to-withness-marks-reconfigure-our-non-innocent-encounters-with-place/ How might attuning to wit(h)ness marks reconfigure our place-relations as non-innocent encounters with place? In a previous microblog I suggested storying witness marks as a useful concept for thinking with encounters at the Glenridge […]
This post is reproduced from the Common Worlds Research Collective’s series of microblogs. The original post can be found here: https://commonworlds.net/how-might-storying-witness-marks-guide-our-relations-with-place/ How might storying witness marks guide our relations with place? The Glenridge Quarry Naturalization Site is a former open pit quarry and landfill-turned natural park in what is currently known as St. Catharines […]
This blog will document a research project taking place over the spring and summer months in 2019 at The Glenridge Quarry Naturalization Site – a former limestone quarry and municipal landfill located on the Niagara Escarpment on Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Ojibway, and Chippewa territory in what is currently known as St. […]