1. Spatial Justice: A call to spatial practice
Developing a model for actuating dialogues on spatial justice through participatory walking practices

2. Main aim of the Study
To develop a participatory model of spatial practice that engages community members in dialogues about, and raises awareness of, issues of spatial justice.

3. Secondary aims of the study
To investigate whether participatory practices that combine walking and storytelling can reinforce a cultural commons that resists spatial oppressions and commodification
To investigate whether the act of walking in public can cultivate individual or community resilience

4. Background of study Spatial justice Space vs Time The spatial turn
The commodification of space
The coevalness of space
Spaces of memory and forgetting
Walking, wayfinding and storytelling
The “street-walker” theorist
The map as a practice and story
CREATEC Research Week Colloquium 19th September 2012

5. Theoretical Framework
Spatial competence
“Space is a practiced place. Thus the street geometrically defined by urban planning is transformed into a space by walkers”
(de Certeau, 1984)
de Certeau, 1984
The Design Studio for Social Intervention, Big Urban Games and Space Bingo
Doing Nothing at King’s Cross, Lottie Child, Street Training, 2007

6. Theoretical Frameowrk
A cultural commons without commodification
“individuals and social groups create the social world of the city, and in doing so, create something common as a framework within which we all can dwell”
(David Harvey, 2011)
Jane’s Walk, Toronto, 2011
I Wish This Was, Candy Chang, New Orleans, 2010

7. Theoretical Framework
Connecting cultural geographies
“The processes of forgetting and remembering in the city, or investing in certain memories and de-investing in others, has been overlooked in urban analysis”
(Daina Cheyenne Harvey, 2008)
Sense of Belonging project, Leicester, UK, 2008, O’Neill & Hubbard

8. Conceptual Framework
Participatory Action Research as a medium for change and democratic spatial practice
Détournement as a space making practice
Walking as a liminal state
Walking as embodied and multisensory
The shared walk as a conversational co-authored practice
Outcomes as community feedback or tools

9. Research Methods Participatory ‘walkshops’ Interactive mapping
Personal mapping
Storytelling and Narrative Inquiry
Détournement of spatial practices
Communication of outcomes via a participatory walking performance or exhibition
Survey Questionnaire!!!
CREATEC Research Week Colloquium 19th September 2012

10. Research Design Diagram