Deirdre Heddon – PERFORMING MOBILITIES http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net Tue, 05 Jul 2016 11:16:09 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/wp-content/uploads/webFiles/cropped-PM_ico_02-32x32.jpg Deirdre Heddon – PERFORMING MOBILITIES http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net 32 32 WALK WITH ME http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/symposium/passages_mobile/walk-with-me/ Sat, 04 Jul 2015 12:28:21 +0000 http://2015.performingmobilities.net/?post_type=passages_mobile&p=459 This performance is created from more than 25 hours of conversation recorded on-the-move. All the words heard were spoken by co-researchers in the project Walking Interconnections: Researching the Lived Experience of Disabled People for a Sustainable Society. 

Walking Interconnections, and the resulting audio-play, Walk With Me, recognise and respond to the fact that disabled people’s voices have been largely absent from the sustainability debate. Representing one-fifth of the world’s population, disabled people have unique contributions, often overlooked, to help build resilient societies and communities. Setting as its foundational tenet the fact that disability does not mean inability, Walk With Me uses walking with as a way to identify and make tangible the everyday, embodied knowledges of disabled people – their habitual experiences of their environments, and their persistent enactments of resilience within these.

What can we learn from disabled people’s experiences of walking? How might these experiences help us create more sustainable futures? Join us for a 30-minute audio walk. Listen out for performances of creativity, commitment, risk-taking, resilience and interdependency. Walk as if in someone else’s shoes.

]]> This performance is created from more than 25 hours of conversation recorded on-the-move. All the words heard were spoken by co-researchers in the project Walking Interconnections: Researching the Lived Experience of Disabled People for a Sustainable Society. 

Walking Interconnections, and the resulting audio-play, Walk With Me, recognise and respond to the fact that disabled people’s voices have been largely absent from the sustainability debate. Representing one-fifth of the world’s population, disabled people have unique contributions, often overlooked, to help build resilient societies and communities. Setting as its foundational tenet the fact that disability does not mean inability, Walk With Me uses walking with as a way to identify and make tangible the everyday, embodied knowledges of disabled people – their habitual experiences of their environments, and their persistent enactments of resilience within these.

What can we learn from disabled people’s experiences of walking? How might these experiences help us create more sustainable futures? Join us for a 30-minute audio walk. Listen out for performances of creativity, commitment, risk-taking, resilience and interdependency. Walk as if in someone else’s shoes.

]]> Walking Interconnections: Performing conversations of sustainability http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/symposium/assembly_symposium/walking-interconnections-performing-conversations-of-sustainability/ Fri, 02 Oct 2015 02:42:57 +0000 http://2015.performingmobilities.net/?post_type=procession_symposium&p=463 Walking Interconnections: Performing Conversations of Sustainability

Walking Interconnections is a research project that recognises and responds to the fact that disabled people’s voices have been largely absent from the sustainability debate. Representing one-fifth of the world’s population, disabled people have unique contributions, often overlooked, to help build resilient societies and communities. Setting as its foundational tenet the fact that disability does not mean inability, Walking Interconnections uses ‘walking with’ as a way to identify and make visible the everyday, embodied knowledges of disabled people – their habitual experiences of their environments and their persistent enactments of resilience within these.

In this short paper, Dee Heddon shares some of the findings from the project, revealing frequent performances of preparation, creativity, persistence and, especially significant to the context of environmental sustainability, interdependency.

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Walking Interconnections is a research project that recognises and responds to the fact that disabled people’s voices have been largely absent from the sustainability debate. Representing one-fifth of the world’s population, disabled people have unique contributions, often overlooked, to help build resilient societies and communities. Setting as its foundational tenet the fact that disability does not mean inability, Walking Interconnections uses ‘walking with’ as a way to identify and make visible the everyday, embodied knowledges of disabled people – their habitual experiences of their environments and their persistent enactments of resilience within these.

In this short paper, Dee Heddon shares some of the findings from the project, revealing frequent performances of preparation, creativity, persistence and, especially significant to the context of environmental sustainability, interdependency.

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