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) […]
Monthly Archives: June 2019
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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 […]