Urban Conversations: “The Foot, The Pen, The Naive Question”

As our planet becomes increasingly urban, this series seeks to expand our understanding of cities and urbanization across sites and scales. The Urban Conversations aim in particular to link humanistic approaches with spatial investigations. We host public talks, and provide a venue for researchers to share works-in-progress with an interdisciplinary community, in a conversational format. Urban Conversations is chaired by Bruno Carvalho and Daniel Agbiboa, and is co-sponsored with the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative.

How might walking and writing as an intertwined practice—of attunement, recognition, acknowledgement—make possible an “intimate urbanism”? We’ll explore the promise and challenges of the city at close range, and reflect on how the walker creates possibilities for a richer understanding of the commons by inscribing the curiosity-driven feet onto space and inscribing experiences in those spaces onto the imagination and the page.

Registration is required for this event. Lunch will be provided.