Encounters with Place Report
First outcomes:
- Interactive documentary on the team and its work in the Cayonlands
- Extended podcast series and interviews
- Extended essay on theoretical reflections on place
- Visual art response to the Cayonlands
- Teaching materials for David Haskell’s place-based studies courses at Sewanee
Secondary outcomes include ongoing dialogues wit Gary Cox, US NPS Ranger, Canyonlands NP, Utah: presentations during ‘Conversations of Place’ weekend, Tennessee, October 23-25, 2015; possibility of further collaborations, formal/informal, to be discussed during Tennessee weekend
This project represents both a sustained engagement with a particular place – the Maze – in the form of a series of creative reflections and public scholarship, as well as a series of reflections on the process of engaging with a particular place that are currently being tailored for David Haskell’s courses on Sewanee and the Southern Appalachians as part of his Fall and Spring term loads. It also represents a sustained engagement with the question of how interdisciplinary work can be done with respect to place, and an engagement with many and varied vectors- disciplines vis-a-vis other disciplines, disciplines vis-a-vis particular places, disciplines vis-a-vis themselves – which formed part of this Maze project experience.