Abstract

Walking pedagogies is a series of audio dialogues exploring pedagogy through conversation and walking. The project brings UAL staff and practitioners together to curate and lead meaningful walks rooted in specific London locations to share personal context and history. Drawing on walking ethnographic practice and psychogeography, these recordings become unique records of what it is to be a teacher in this moment in time and takes us out of the university to bring in wider environmental and political contexts and issues.

Session and activities

Come and experience the Walking Pedagogies project through a collective listening space, where we will hear extracts of the three walks recorded so far in Soho, Southall and Brixton. 

We walk through Saville Row to Soho, where Dr Manrutt Wongkaew walks with Carole Morrison, describing his journey from tailor to senior lecturer at London College of Fashion, sharing how he brings authentic ‘self’ and relationality to his teaching practice. Dr Gurnam Singh takes us on an autobiographical journey through Southall, sharing experiences of his formative years that reveal histories of migration, workers movements and the anti-fascist organisation that occurred in the area. In Brixton, Rahul Patel guides us around Windrush Square, describing the landmark events that precede and follow the uprisings of 1981 including the anti-racist education movement that pertains to the awarding gaps still persisting within Higher Education.  

You are also invited to contribute to an interactive map to share significant moments of teaching and learning.