Category: Walking East Northfield

House on Washington Street with a tiered garden in the front yard.

Walking East Northfield: 5th Street-9th Street, Union Street-Washington Street

I started my walk at around 1PM on Saturday afternoon after finishing a work shift in the Weitz Center for Creativity. It was extremely nice out, and as I walked south on Union Street I saw several people out enjoying the weather (and one very cute dog) and heard plenty of birdsong. Once I reached the intersection of 5th Street and Union Street where my area begins, I took a

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Walking East Northfield Project

Much of the inspiration for deep mapping comes out of a long tradition of slowing down, walking through a specific place, and paying attention. From William Least Heat-Moons PrairyErth to psychogeography, to Denis Wood’s “Narrative Atlas” project, many of the foundational readings on Deep Mapping reference this impulse and provide models to follow and theories to think with.  The Spring 2023 class put it into practice by collectively walking and mapping the East Northfield

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