In recent years, walking has emerged as a methodological tool and as a conceptually exciting point of departure across a range of disciplines and practices. This volume explores walking as a form of embodied research practice that offers fresh perspectives on key contemporary debates and areas of interest. These include the climate emergency and the debate around the Anthropocene, decolonial thinking and the struggle for social justice, feminist and queer walking methodologies, and the notion of the ‘infraordinary’ and practices of everyday life.
What does it mean when architects once again increasingly turn toward the lifeworld in an ethnographically descriptive manner? To indicate that this is a critical approach, it shall here be provisionally called reflexive ethnography. Reflexive means developing an awareness of the power imbalance between observers and those being observed, of the Other within us. It is a method with which we open up the world to ourselves through drawing, in order to uncover our own entanglements in the most diverse regimes and networks, or the potentials and ambitions of a societal situation.
