How might slow walking attune us to weathering as alter temporality?
Shared by VERONICA PACINI-KETCHABAW, MINDY BLAISE, AND AFFRICA TAYLOR
How might slow walking attune us to weathering as alter temporality? Last year in Rindö, Sweden, we led a feminist common worlding slow walkshop. It was part of a four day research symposium called ‘The Wild Weathering Collaboratory: Reacclimitising Early Childhood Environmental Pedagogies to the Prospect of Anthropogenic Climate Change’, funded by The Seed Box. Responding to Isabelle Stenger’s calls for researchers to experiment with slow methods, we tried out some slow modes of attunement to the manifold aspects of weathering as we walked in local woodlands. One of these involved thinking about weathering as time and time as weathering, as Tonya Rooney has done in the ‘Walking with wildlife in wild weather times’ project. Participants were asked to take note of the alter-temporalities of non-human rhythms, stutterings, interruptions and flows that had previously weathered and/or were still weathering these particular common world environs.
References
Rooney, T. (2018) Weathering time: walking with young children in a changing climate, Children’s Geographies, DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2018.1474172
Stengers, I. (2018) Another Science is Possible. A Manifesto for Slow Science, Trans. S. Meuke, London: Polity Press.
