This weekend I travel to Galway to work with Emmet. I’ve forgotten to work my miles out and get trees planted - tut. I will have to do that fast upon my return. Anyhow, we’re going to get on with a bunch of stuff. We’ve both been very busy since our last meeting, so it […]

Whilst honing in on my qualitative research planning, I am also enhancing some drawing skills in the area of botanical illustration. Why is this? Well there’s the personal issue of how over time, like many other artists/designers, I am spending more and more time on the computer and less and less time drawing. Others (usually […]

I am further constructing my qualitative research method. A qualitative research mentor has helped expand my reading in this area, and she will now help guide my delivery of this side of the project. New reading is practically complete and so I will start writing up my notes whilst planning the focus session, workshops and […]

I have to put up the abstract of one of favourite papers -
In this paper I consider just how neglected the car has been in contemporary analyses of the contemporary city. Yet in many ways the car is the best example of a global technology and one whose environmental impacts are of course of awesome […]

To remember our reserve of ideas - tagging is in there - but as a way of thinking about them and using them more, Emmet and I discussed if the tags for this blog should be at the top of the page.
I was first properly introduced to tagging by Emmet last July. I was explaining […]

Emmet and I met to work in real space over two weeks ago now, and so I realise it’s time for me to finish recording the last bits of that event.
As the weekend drew to a close, we summarised how we were going to approach the next stage of the project. Previous posts about the […]

Joining and taking part in Green Map network action, confirmed in my mind that maps should be about addressing the needs of landscape and not just the needs of people. But it also taught me, that to achieve this, I needed to work with people to create maps from the very beginning of development. The […]

Looking at ANTIPODE/2 I realise it’s time to make a note of some previous research I reviewed with Emmet. In some ways like ANTIPODE, I was developing the project in the past by trialling out different ideas that were about interweaving ‘photography and cartographic process to reconstruct in virtual space the landscape’. I had walked […]

Dom beat me to it on this one, but I had this on the brew in the background, so thought I might as well post a couple of thoughts…
The number of individal pieces of electronic equipment needed to document a walk is surprising. GPS unit, digital camera, phone, audio recorder… we juggled more than one […]

We saw swans, butterflies and squirrels on our walk. We would have seen more if we hadn’t been so consumed with the gps machine.