In EPISODE FORTY ONE (April 28th, 7:06 PM) we discuss architectural heritage in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Stay tuned!
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In EPISODE FORTY we take the show to Serengeti National Park and try our hand at media coverage of big game drives. We call the episode “Safari Njema,” or Good Travels in Swahili. This episode will first broadcast on March 24th at 7:06 PM. Stay tuned!
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Check out all previous radio expeditions here.
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In “Piece by Piece,” we sit down with Rukia Hatibu, aka The Annoyin’ Artist, to discuss the importance of making public our ideas, stories and “pieces.” It is not enough to ask questions about who we are. What is vital is having an actual place to do it. Her evening forum helps showcase different voices and provides a space for personal poetic development. As if that was not enough, Rukia also discusses her new initiative, AIDIM, that seeks to bring out this same development in school children. (Photo by Sonia Ibáñez)
This episode first airs from Radio Fabrik in Salzburg, Austria on Saturday, January 27 at 7:06 PM local time.
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EPISODE THIRTY SEVEN marks the beginning of Season Four and our first show from Tanzania in East Africa. This episode first airs from Radio Fabrik in Salzburg, Austria on Saturday, December 23 at 7:06 PM local time.
“Zanzibar, or the Last Reason,” translated from the German, “Sansibar oder der letzte Grund,” is a novel by Alfred Andersch where one of the protagonists (a boy) daydreams the far away Zanzibar from his small hometown in Germany. Maybe a bad case of fernweh, this island in his mind is actually located in the Indian Ocean, but it is less a concrete goal than the utopian place of a better future. Water temperature: 30 degrees Celcius. (Photo by Sonia Ibáñez)
Special thanks to Julia Mia Stirnemann from EPISODE TWENTY SEVEN for sharing the book title and, in the end, helping frame this radio expedition. Danke!
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In “La Arquitecta” we explore the resonance of spaces and (other) feminist perspectives on urban design with German-born architect Chris Heidrich. The show returns to Cuba (see EPISODE 32) to raise questions about who designs the city. Heidrich discusses her current project, Female Architects in the Urban Renewal of Old Havana, and reveals some of her own process in interpreting spaces. EPISODE THIRTY SIX marks the end of Season 3 and the close, for now, of the Mitteleuropa explorations. This episode will broadcast first from Radio Fabrik on October 28th at 7:06 PM Salzburg time (1:06 PM New York). Photo by Mileyra Pavel.
]]>Karibu Tanzania! Geographical Imaginations has arrived and is looking for ideas and collaborators for its 4th season of radio expeditions into the everything and nothing. Watch our first presentation in Dar es Salaam here. Contact us if you are interested!
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We finish our summer reading of C.C. Long’s “Home Geography” in EPISODE THIRTY FIVE. Lessons 33 through 45 round out this primer for developing our own geographical imaginations. Long reminds us, “All around are illustrations of lake and river, upland and lowland, slope and valley. These forms must be actually observed by the pupil, mental pictures obtained, in order that he may be enabled to build up in his mind other mental pictures of similar unseen forms.” This episode will broadcast first from Radio Fabrik on September 23rd at 7:06 PM Salzburg time (1:06 PM New York).
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In EPISODE THIRTY FOUR we pick up from where we left off in C.C. Long’s classic text, “Home Geography for Primary Grades.” Starting with Lesson 18, “How Rivers Are Made,” and finishing with Lesson 32, “Useful Plants,” Long continues to impress upon us the need “to study that small part of the earth’s surface lying just at our doors.” Read along and design your own local expeditions. This episode will broadcast first from Radio Fabrik on August 26th at 7:06 PM Salzburg time (1:06 PM New York).
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Welcome to our inaugural summer reading series. Listen to EPISODE THIRTY THREE as we explore C.C. Long’s 1894 classic primary school text. In “Home Geography,” Dr. Long tells us, “A knowledge of the home must be obtained by direct observation; of the rest of the world, through the imagination assisted by information. Ideas acquired by direct observation form a basis for imagining those things which are distant and unknown.” This episode will broadcast first from Radio Fabrik on July 22nd at 7:06 PM Salzburg time (1:06 PM New York).
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What comes to mind when someone says, “CUBA?” Classic automobiles, Buena Vista, Che? Maybe you envision a socialist utopia with free, universal healthcare and education? Or a maybe a communist dystopia with all of its problems? In EPISODE THIRTY TWO we invite geographer Johnny Finn to discuss US American geographical imaginations of this large Caribbean island and unpack the various narratives that inform how we arrive to Cuba in our minds. This episode will broadcast first from Radio Fabrik on June 24th at 7:06 PM Salzburg time (1:06 PM New York). (Photo by Johnny Finn)
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Stay tuned for EPISODE TWENTY NINE. We call it “A Great American Pilgrimage.” This episode will broadcast first from Radio Fabrik (www.radiofabrik.at) on March 25th at 7:06 PM Salzburg time (1:06 PM New York). We will look at what it means to thru-hike the 3500 km Appalachian Trail and discuss this “other side of America.” Dare to listen!
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From left to right, Marie Damisch, Daniel Url, Kevin S. Fox, in Studio B at Radio Fabrik recording for EPISODE TWENTY EIGHT.
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Stay tuned for EPISODE TWENTY SEVEN. “Unconventional Worldmaps, Unconventional Worldviews” will broadcast first from Radio Fabrik on January 28th at 7:06 PM Salzburg time (1:06 PM New York). In this radio expedition we speak with Julia Mia Stirnemann about her World Map Generator, an online tool designed to help de-center the way we think about the conventional cartographic representations of the world. After the initial broadcast look for the episode in the archives at https://www.geographicalimaginations.org/episodes/.
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Photograph by Johnny Finn
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]]>The episode first broadcasts on Radio Fabrik at 7:06 PM Salzburg, Austria time and 1:06 PM New York on the 4th Saturday of the month. Check us out this Saturday, July 23rd to hear our latest work. As always, you can find the podcast posted on the website at https://www.geographicalimaginations.org/episodes/.
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The episode first broadcasts this Saturday, February 27th on Radio Fabrik at 7:06 PM Salzburg, Austria time and 1:06 PM New York. As always, you can find the podcast after original airing here just under the Episodes tab.
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Geographical Imaginations was recently included on Fräulein Flora’s list of Top 5 favorite radio shows broadcasting from Radio Fabrik, our home station here in Salzburg. As you will remember from EPISODE FOUR “Little Stories” Fräulein Flora’s Favourite Hangouts started as an alternative mapping guide of Salzburg’s little known hangouts and spots found off the normal tourist route. Flora was literally mapping out the stories and anecdotes of this city for both the newcomer and native to include on their mental map of Salzburg. After months and months of hard work and commitment to their vision Eva Krallinger and Matthias Gruber–and Flora, of course–now frame and shape a diversified and eclectic way of knowing the City of Mozart through an extended online presence that includes hundreds of tips for things to do here. Their project offers up a fresh geographical imagination for a city with so much tradition. For the entire article and their website click here.
]]>This is a look at the many geographies produced by an anthropomorphic goat-man. Trust me, it is exciting! This Saturday, November 28th on Radio Fabrik. As always, 7:06 PM Salzburg, Austria time and 1:06 PM New York.
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