Lecture by WalkingLab’s Dr. Kimberly Powell
Thursday, March 24 at 7:00 p.m.
Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art
Walking has increasingly been adopted by artists and social scientists as a means to develop socially engaged, community-based practice and research. Drawing from her work in the cultural and historical district of San Jose Japantown (CA), an area a ffected by the Japanese American internment experience of World War II, Dr. Powell’s research focuses on the ways in which walking as a sensory experience facilitates memory, biography, and identity as emplaced, and the ways in which walking as a methodology is an orientation toward an ontology of being in the making, one that is comprised of
space, place, and material encounters.