Walking as Critical Practice : Expo Presentation 2020

Mellon Funded research group: Walking: A Critical + Creative Research Practice explored the practice of walking and moving through space as a critical and creative research method across disciplines. Students from Dance, Music, Art, and Media Studies were guided by faculty from correlating disciplines to explore walking and movement through space. This research acts as a resistance to our current competitive cultural obsession with production (at any costs) to focus on more mindful, humble and human approaches to the production of experience. The practice of walking becomes a method to examine human experience in relation to the built environment, manufactured time, and the process of learning. Emerging from each of the four disciplines, the conscious act of walking and movement through space yielded a diverse range of perspectives, strategies, and objectives. The participating students will present a multimedia presentation for Expo sharing methods and outcomes.
University of North Carolina Greensboro
Students:
Arielle Smallwood
Elisabeth Fisher
India Baldwin
Alexandria Vilchis
Faculty:
Lee Walton
Clarice Young
Gavin Douglas
Jennida Chase
Supported by the
Carnegie Mellon Grant:
“Transforming the Humanities at a Minority
Serving Institution:
Funding for Interdisciplinary Faculty-Student
Collaborative Groups.”

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