People + CONCEPTS

Join artist April Morris for a walk in the city! Sept 19 + 26. On this walk April will discuss the history of psychogeography and the impact walking has on learning more about the neighborhoods we live in.

Jay Pitter will give a virtual lecture for the Humanites Research Group on Tuesday Sept. 22 @ 7 pm. Register here: https://www.uwindsor.ca/humanities-research-group/304/hrg-guests-events

Jin-Me Yoon discusses her photo series, A Group of Sixty-Seven and the way that national identity is imaged in Canadian culture

Christian Nold is one of many people to take into consideration how emotional states make shape the ways in which we understand space. Emotional Cartography is a website and publication that chronicles his work from a decade ago. emotionalcartography.net/EmotionalCartographyLow.pdf

Link to interview:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/living-languages-susan-blight-ogimaa-mikana-public-art-project-street-signs-billboards-1.5485914

and article: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/living-languages-susan-blight-ogimaa-mikana-public-art-project-street-signs-billboards-1.5485914

Ogimaa Mikana project by Susan Blight and Hayden King. Important context for Street Names and Settler Colonialism project.

Project 3 is based on a project by Broken City Lab (2009-2015) that earmarked sites around the city that signalled city pride or shame.

www.brokencitylab.org/blog/sites-of-apology-sites-of-hope-the-map/ Its fun to look through their inventory. Their website captures the ethos of our project, but I am hoping you can delve further into discussions around the history of the region(s) you choose to focus on. Please see assignment details to make sure you're on the right track.