Thinking Together: Towards Collective Learning, Public Scholarship, and Spatial Knowledge

Thinking Together: Towards Collective Learning, Public Scholarship, and Spatial Knowledge is the first zine emerging from the public scholarship project terrain and text, which extends critical spatial theory beyond the academy. The zine includes a reflection on public scholarship and the first gatherings of terrain and text, a toolkit on becoming a situational reader, a mini spatial theory reading list, eight prompts for interactive spatial attunement practices, a bookmark made of scans from Cairo, Abu Dhabi, and Toronto streets, and an ink drawing by Erica H Isomura. Intervening in a context where academic knowledge is gate-kept within institutions, the zine is a practice of collective and community-oriented learning and teaching. Because everything happens somewhere, the zine invites readers to explore spatial theory and practice, read critically, and follow their curiosities and questions. By tuning into our surroundings and investigating the spatial dimensions of everyday life, we can better orient ourselves in the world & act upon our political and ethical commitments. 

Based between Cairo, Toronto, and Abu Dhabi, Farida Rady is a researcher, artist, and writer currently pursuing a PhD in urban planning at the University of Toronto. Farida explores questions of urban governance, housing justice, migrations, memory, and the poetics of place. Find Farida on a long walk, or swimming in the nearest body of water. 

Additional, Farida exists digitally @farida.archives

Toronto; 115 x 165 mm; 19 pages in various forms, contained in a singular envelope!