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No / In recent years walking interviews have emerged as a valuable alternative to the standard research interview, particularly in studies related to place, community, and the urban environment (Clark and Emmel 2010). Although there is little literature on the use of walking interviews with people who have dementia, the method is particularly appropriate for this participant group, due to the strong memories for place and past events that are usually retained by people with dementia, even when short term memory deteriorates (Chaudhury 2008). Narrative biography work with people who have dementia shows a repeated tendency to use geographical markers as ¿signposts¿ to particular memories (Bryce et al 2010). In 2010 the authors piloted the use of walking interviews with three people with dementia within a care home environment. The film record of the process suggests that the combination of physical movement and reminiscence which was involved both facilitated and enhanced communication for people with dementia. These findings led to the present work which is based on walking interviews with people who have dementia in places which have particular meaning for them, such as the street where they grew up; the school they attended; a former workplace; public park; sports ground or other familiar space. The oral presentation will include film clips, contrasting ¿static¿ communication with each participant, with his or her verbal production, or non-verbal communication, in response to environmental prompts and recovered sights and sounds. In addition, we will draw on the film data to explore a series of thought-provoking questions related to changing inner and outer landscapes, the vagaries of memory, and the psychogeography of dementia. Can the frequently pathologised ¿wandering¿ of people with dementia in time and space be rehabilitated using situationist concepts such as the dérive and the flaneur?

Yes / Within the dominant biomedical discourse, late-life dementia is regarded as a pathological condition characterised by short-term memory loss, word finding difficulties and ‘problem behaviours’ such as ‘wandering and ‘repetitive questioning’. As its title suggests, one of the main purposes of this chapter is to shift the focus from what people with late-life dementia forget to what they remember, particularly as this relates to places they have known much earlier in life. A central part of my argument is that dementia, often somewhat crudely represented as wholesale memory loss, might better be regarded as a form of spatio-temporal disruption; a disruption which intersects with the theoretical territory of psychogeography.

The design process demands comprehensive knowledge of visual signs and symbols with a focus on visual literacy; it is related to visual syntax, semantics, and the pragmatics of contexts. My work is an interdisciplinary investigation into how designers integrate polysemantic signs into their design process for particular and highly individualized audiences. By analyzing the role of signs in specific contexts across the spectrum of arts, society, literature, and semiotics, a designer's understanding of the cyclical nature of interpretation and reinterpretation in complex environments creates an avenue for cultivating a new schema that provides further levels of interpretations and different access points. By removing elements from their original context, and fusing these elements into new narratives, we implement new meanings and emphasize the value of interpretation.

The design process demands comprehensive knowledge of visual signs and symbols with a focus on visual literacy; it is related to visual syntax, semantics, and the pragmatics of contexts. My work is an interdisciplinary investigation into how designers integrate polysemantic signs into their design process for particular and highly individualized audiences. By analyzing the role of signs in specific contexts across the spectrum of arts, society, literature, and semiotics, a designer's understanding of the cyclical nature of interpretation and reinterpretation in complex environments creates an avenue for cultivating a new schema that provides further levels of interpretations and different access points. By removing elements from their original context, and fusing these elements into new narratives, we implement new meanings and emphasize the value of interpretation.

This thesis investigates how my representations of experience through arts-informed autoethnographic research are significant in establishing the pedagogical nature of place. I seek to understand how place-conscious education in a community setting can encourage students' relationships with the spaces they inhabit and lend to a more just learning environment. Many educative tools are provided and analyzed which are derived from wayfinding and psychogeographic methods. Data was collected over two months throughout the Summer of 2015 while participating in the Onward Israel service learning program in Israel and Palestine. My digital photographs and excerpts of stream-of-consciousness style poetry serve as the data set to illuminate the rich sensory encounters and art making processes indicative of experiential learning. This context-driven artwork encourages questions and dialogue about sociopolitical conflict and wars, migration and occupation. It is concerned with physical as well as psychological borders, checkpoints and boundaries. I utilized poetic and photographic inquiry as well as cognitive mapping to explore how concepts of travel are intricately linked to practices of self-reflexivity, community building and alternative curricula development outside of the formal classroom setting. This qualitative data is not a strictly defined set of interviews or statistics. Instead, vignettes of a more totalizing experience can be extracted, analyzed, dissected and/or rearranged. It is an exploration of identity, agency and untraditional ways of knowing the self/Other. I underscore how new pathways and possibilities for teaching emerge from a greater acceptance and validation of experiential knowledge and an attuned consciousness to place.

A presente pesquisa é decorrência de uma curiosidade que começou com o Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso. Em grande medida é a continuação das perguntas deixadas por esse trabalho que a precedeu. Tentou-se realizar, partindo das ideias da Internacional Situacionista (IS), uma pesquisa psicogeográfica no bairro Centro Histórico de Porto Alegre/RS. A partir disso foram agregados elementos que compusessem um escopo mais denso para a metodologia, através dos conceitos de caminhar, corpo, urbe/cidade. Para tal, foram realizados diversos trabalhos de campo na área de estudo, resultando em materiais diversos: uma narrativa, dezenas de fotos e dois mapas. / The present research comes from a curiosity that started in the work made for the conclusion of the graduation course. In large measure is the following of the questions left behind by this previous work. Beginning with the ideas of the International Situacionist (IS), a psycogeographical investigation were attempted, in the historical district of Porto Alegre/RS. From this, where aggregated elements to compose a heavier scope for the methodology, trough the concepts of walking, body and urbe/city. For such, were made a series of field works, resulting in multiple products: a narrative, dozens of pictures and two maps.

A presente pesquisa é decorrência de uma curiosidade que começou com o Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso. Em grande medida é a continuação das perguntas deixadas por esse trabalho que a precedeu. Tentou-se realizar, partindo das ideias da Internacional Situacionista (IS), uma pesquisa psicogeográfica no bairro Centro Histórico de Porto Alegre/RS. A partir disso foram agregados elementos que compusessem um escopo mais denso para a metodologia, através dos conceitos de caminhar, corpo, urbe/cidade. Para tal, foram realizados diversos trabalhos de campo na área de estudo, resultando em materiais diversos: uma narrativa, dezenas de fotos e dois mapas. / The present research comes from a curiosity that started in the work made for the conclusion of the graduation course. In large measure is the following of the questions left behind by this previous work. Beginning with the ideas of the International Situacionist (IS), a psycogeographical investigation were attempted, in the historical district of Porto Alegre/RS. From this, where aggregated elements to compose a heavier scope for the methodology, trough the concepts of walking, body and urbe/city. For such, were made a series of field works, resulting in multiple products: a narrative, dozens of pictures and two maps.

A presente pesquisa é decorrência de uma curiosidade que começou com o Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso. Em grande medida é a continuação das perguntas deixadas por esse trabalho que a precedeu. Tentou-se realizar, partindo das ideias da Internacional Situacionista (IS), uma pesquisa psicogeográfica no bairro Centro Histórico de Porto Alegre/RS. A partir disso foram agregados elementos que compusessem um escopo mais denso para a metodologia, através dos conceitos de caminhar, corpo, urbe/cidade. Para tal, foram realizados diversos trabalhos de campo na área de estudo, resultando em materiais diversos: uma narrativa, dezenas de fotos e dois mapas. / The present research comes from a curiosity that started in the work made for the conclusion of the graduation course. In large measure is the following of the questions left behind by this previous work. Beginning with the ideas of the International Situacionist (IS), a psycogeographical investigation were attempted, in the historical district of Porto Alegre/RS. From this, where aggregated elements to compose a heavier scope for the methodology, trough the concepts of walking, body and urbe/city. For such, were made a series of field works, resulting in multiple products: a narrative, dozens of pictures and two maps.

Our day-to-day lives consist of formal and informal settlements in the built environment. As humans, we gravitate towards successful informal settlements (public spaces) to conduct activities such as socializing and recharging. Previous research has highlighted the importance of distinct factors in determining the success of public spaces. Still, research has failed to develop the foundation that makes all public places prosper. Through examining successful and unsuccessful public places through case studies, this research analyses the success and importance of our emotional and physical safety in public spaces through the presence or absence of sound, light, nature, boundaries, and order.