#mapping #drawing #emotional geographies #imagination exercise #self-reflection #tour guiding #life story
This is an exercise, in which we explore our individual geographies of longing and make them shareable through drawings and tourism inspired narratives. Journeying through one’s own scape of longing, as both tourist and tour guide, can be a way of getting to know ourselves and our interlocutors from an affective, aspirational side that offers a different angle from the typical assessment via factual live events. It offers an alternative modus of self-encounter that lets us reflect on agency and the relationship between externally and internally interwoven geographies and movements of an individual.
Literature/ Film:
•D’Onofrio, A. (2019). It was Tomorrow. Journal of Anthropological Films, 3(02), e2757. https://doi.org/10.15845/jaf.v3i02.2757
•Kollektiv Orangotango+, 2018, This Is Not an Atlas. A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies [En ligne], https://notanatlas.org/book/
•Wetzel, F. (2019). Sehnsuchtsort Ústí nad Labem. Untersuchung von Reiseführern und Reiseberichten aus der Tschechoslowakei, der DDR und der BRD von 1945 bis 1990. In: Eden für jeden. Touristische Sehnsuchstorte in Mittel-und Osteuropa von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart, ed. by Bianca Hoenig and Hannah Wadle, Wiesbaden: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, p. 43-62.