Stroll - Walking the City Streets Online

06/12/2023

Közel 500 helyszínen le lehet már adni a saját, vagy az összegyűjtött üres íveket. Mutatjuk, hogy hol.

05/12/2023

30/10/2023

En meg eppen belefertem! Ma ejfelig lehet szavazni. Maceras kicsit, de azert 5 percet meger!

7IGEN Alternatív Oktatási Népszavazás

03/10/2023

❤️ Marino's urbanistic dream becoming reality in Budapest: new microparks in the 8th district 🌳

Józsefvárosban a tervek szerint öt mikropark készül el még idén ősszel, melyek a jövőben a nyári forróságokban szolgálnak majd enyhítésül a betondzsungel közepén.

01/03/2023

📙 What is a reflective journal?
✍️ Learning how to do ethnographic fieldwork is part of the learning outcomes. Ethnography does not exist without note-taking. In our STROLL course, we proposed several creative assignments and we opened with reflective journaling.
📸 Through reflective journaling students are expected to continuously take notes – and reflect on these - during fieldwork and to create a short reflective write-up based on their journal.
What do these notes usually consist of? The possibilities were endless: ideas, suspend thoughts, imagination about new places, documenting experiences, creating mental notes, drawings of scenes, photographs, and collages.
👉 Find out more about the STROLL course in our Teaching Manual:
http://www.artemisszio.hu/blog/stroll-walking-in-the-city-teaching-manual/125

27/02/2023

📖 In 1961, Jane Jacobs published The Death and Life of Great American Cities, which put together reflections, analyses, and approaches to the contemporary city. Jacobs wasn’t an architect, an urban planner, or an artist, but she lived in a city and emotionally experienced it. In this wonderful book, more than sixty years ago, Jacobs urged us to walk and watch, to observe carefully.
🔍 STROLL has also invited us to watch and see the city from a contemporary hybrid perspective, in which the screen, the virtual, and the real have intertwined in a logical and natural way. Undoubtedly, observing is a creative exercise. Artists have always observed cities, the fruits of which are their drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, and all kinds of creative products. That is why Art had to be part of STROLL.
🤓 Looking closely is a creative practice we can all attempt to carry out. To observe is to look at something (the city) or someone (those who live in it) with time and attention, leading to the discovery of other realities. This is how we have suggested the use of Art in STROLL: as an exercise in detailed observation, as any researcher would do when they look closely at their object of study, devoting to it time and care.
👉 Find out more in our Teaching Manual: http://www.artemisszio.hu/blog/stroll-walking-in-the-city-teaching-manual/125
📙 More about The Death and Life of Great American Cities: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30833.The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities
📸 Photo: Jane Jacobs at a Save West Village press conference. (Library of Congress)

24/02/2023

⚧ What do we mean when we say a city (or different parts, aspects of a city) is gendered?
🏢 In our Stroll course, students were divided into 4 groups where they researched different topics about city life. One topic was the relationship between urbanity and gender.
🔍 Characteristics of male dominance can be witnessed not only in the lack of representation in street names but also in traditional architecture, spatial organization, and access to public spaces. Women in modern cities started to gain their legitimate rights to the public sphere to a significant extent only with the appearance of public places such as shopping malls, and libraries.
👉 Find out more in our Teaching Manual: http://www.artemisszio.hu/blog/stroll-walking-in-the-city-teaching-manual/125

22/02/2023

For humans in late modernity, cities have a special importance. However, the intuition that studying urban life unfolding in modern urban space is a way to understand some essential characteristics of Western modernity is not new.
When we research, or “read” the urban space, we end up not just understanding better the city, but through the city, we get closer to the essential characteristics of a society. Reading space here means: to make sense of, react to it emotionally, practice it, to live it.
Reading space is not just an intellectual exercise, it is an embodied, phenomenological experience.
Due to this, in our Stroll classes on urban space, the theory is not separated from practice. Each theoretical point is illustrated by ample ethnographic examples. The theory also orients the ethnographic observations proposed to students.
In order to better understand urban space, the researcher-students of the class asked themselves questions like these: who is this space made for? What are the intended functions of the space? What associations, questions, and meanings do you have? Who are the people who use this space? What events and dramas have left their traces?
Find out more in our Teaching Manual: http://www.artemisszio.hu/blog/stroll-walking-in-the-city-teaching-manual/125

21/02/2023

🔄 What if teachers of a course are not just teachers? Or if students also fill in other roles? How can “co-creation” be done in a pedagogical setting? Can university lessons be more democratic?
🤓 While our Stroll course contained classes that were more similar to traditional lectures with teachers making more frontal presentations and students learning from the classes, the way we conducted research was more experimental.
🔍 For four months, 21 students and 12 professors from three countries (Hungary, Spain, and Greece) have shared time and virtual space to think about and understand the city. Throughout this time, the students have been researchers, looking into gender, urban spaces, and art issues at the same time as touring three cities (Budapest, Larisa, and Madrid) and hosting foreign students in their own cities. Professors have become guides in this more democratized knowledge-building.
👉 Find out more in our Teaching Manual:

The STROLL - Walking in the City Teaching Manual is ready!How to conduct a university class in 3 different countries for students from 3 different universities? How to get to know a city virtually? How to work with students coming from various disciplines (such as architecture, social sciences, and....

17/02/2023

🤔 Can classes with students with different cultural identities have additional benefits? What things to consider when working together with students from different countries of origin, or vastly different cultural backgrounds? And what does “interculturality” mean?
💬 People from different places, from different time periods, or speaking different languages can have distinguishing cultures. When such people interact, that situation is intercultural.
🤓 There is no “One” good way to teach a class in an intercultural environment, as these situations can sometimes be complex or even challenging. However, there are principles that can make working together not only easier but uniquely beneficial.
📖 On the educational level, interculturally-based research can open up ways to interpret things differently. It can also develop soft skills, such as cooperation, communication, and the competency to navigate intercultural situations in the future.
✊ In our Stroll class, students even sharpened their sense of justice, as the research groups were encouraged to turn toward their research topics actively looking at the question of how the city could be a better place for all.
👉 Find out more in our Teaching Manual:

The STROLL - Walking in the City Teaching Manual is ready!How to conduct a university class in 3 different countries for students from 3 different universities? How to get to know a city virtually? How to work with students coming from various disciplines (such as architecture, social sciences, and....