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Sue McLoughlin's avatar

Thank you for this really interesting post. I had hoped to get to the symposium but in the end wasn’t able to. The wonderful term 'deep mapping' was new to me, and when I looked it up, I found this on the Wikipedia page: ‘BBC Radio 4 has recently undertaken several series of radio documentaries that are deep maps. These are inspired by the "sense of place" work of the Common Ground organisation.' I wondered if you knew which programmes this refers to - sounds like essential listening!

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Andy Marshall's avatar

Yasmin. I enjoyed your post. Your post reminded me of some words by Rebecca Solnit about the experience of walking- here they are: “The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. This creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making. And so one aspect of the history of walking is the history of thinking made concrete — for the motions of the mind cannot be traced, but those of the feet can. “ Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking (public library).

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