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UPDATE

Fox — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 10:35:13 +0000

UPDATE: Geographical Imaginations is busy putting together episodes for the next few months. As always, we are engaged with a wide range of subject matter. Join us for one of our radio expeditions into the everything and nothing. Stay tuned in March and April for explorations of the Safari in Serengeti National Park and Dar es Salaam’s architectural history. As part of our summer reading series (May/June) we read and place into context J.K. Wright’s 1946 Association of American Geographers’ Presidential Address with his introduction to the concept of geosophy. Later in the summer we will broadcast a 2-part interview with Yi Fu Tuan, a giant in 20^th-century academic geography and a huge influence on this show.

Check out all previous radio expeditions here.

EPISODE THIRTY SIX: La Arquitecta

Fox — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 16:28:41 +0000

Photo by Mileyra Pavel

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.

Willkommen in Tansania

Fox — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 07:48:10 +0000

PechaKucha Night Dar es Salaam Vol. 14

Fox — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:54:16 +0000

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!

Karibu Tanzania

Fox — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 14:35:59 +0000

Geographical Imaginations (G.I.) will make its first public presentation in Dar es Salaam at Pecha Kucha Nights Vol. 14 on September 14, 2017 at Triniti Bar. Come listen to our ideas for transitioning the G.I. project from Salzburg, Austria to Tanzania.

Public Geographies, Public Geographer…

Fox — Mon, 01 May 2017 16:03:06 +0000

Took the train Saturday to Solothurn, Switzerland for their Pecha Kucha Night #3. I got carried away and presented 3 different projects: Geographical Imaginations, The CAMINANTE Project and The Great American Pilgrimage (Appalachian Trail). Great hosts and quite the Kulturnacht in this great Swiss town outside of Zurich. Thanks again to all!

Geographies of Pecha Kucha Nights

Fox — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 18:08:09 +0000

The Making of “Auf Deutsch Bitte”

Fox — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:59:07 +0000

From left to right, Marie Damisch, Daniel Url, Kevin S. Fox, in Studio B at Radio Fabrik recording for EPISODE TWENTY EIGHT.

Pecha Kucha People

Fox — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:02:57 +0000

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Kevin S. Fox, host and producer of Geographical Imaginations, was recently honored by Pecha Kucha Nights as Pecha Kucha Person of the Week. Have you heard of PKN? Check them out. Chances are there is an event organized in your city or region. Great way to share projects and ideas in a vibrant forum. Who said the 21st century public forum was dead?

I am a Salzburger.

Fox — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 10:06:44 +0000

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Everything & Everyone

Fox — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 18:57:05 +0000

The Wisdom of Borges

Fox — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 18:23:23 +0000

Imagining Detroit Geographies

Fox — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 18:55:53 +0000

Imagining Detroit Geographies (click for a pdf) was a presentation given by Kevin S. Fox at Pecha Kucha Night Detroit Vol. 28 in conjunction with the 24th Annual Congress for the New Urbanism. The theme was “The Transforming City.”

Circumnavigating the Globe Four Times

Fox — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 16:57:42 +0000

EPISODE NINETEEN It’s a Jopará World

Fox — Sun, 22 May 2016 17:05:42 +0000

In the show’s 19th episode we test locals on their knowledge of the country of Paraguay while locating their own geographical imaginations along the way. We also invite two of the three Paraguayans living in Salzburg, the musicians Francisco González and Raúl Rolón, to share traditional Paraguayan music and discuss–in English, Spanish and Jopará–cultural geographical mixing between Paraguay and Austria. (Photo by Sonia Ibáñez)

Geographical Imaginations Road Trip

Fox — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 12:33:39 +0000

Geographical Imaginations takes the show on the road next week for the Easter holidays. We visit the Slovak Republic and southern Poland and, no doubt, will expand our ways of thinking about the region. As part of our commitment to cross-cultural exchange and doing public geography we will give two short talks along the way.

On March 28th, Kevin S. Fox will present MAKING PUBLIC GEOGRAPHIES at Pecha Kucha Night Bardejov Vol. 5 in Bardejov, Slovakia. See here for more details:https://www.facebook.com/events/931632140245798/.

On March 31st at Pecha Kucha Night Katowice (Poland) Vol. 15 Sonia Ibáñez joins Kevin for an exploration of self and landscape along the Appalachian Trail in FOOTPRINTING AMERICA . For more details check out their event page:https://www.facebook.com/events/1052059574817519/.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Fox — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 12:20:31 +0000

Here the Christmas season is not only St. Nick and the Krampus. Geographical Imaginations continues to explore Alpine cultural practices with weekend visits to Adventmarkts in the area. Here Kevin S. Fox is pictured with Sonia Ibáñez, contributing photographer and partner in crime, at the Schloss Glanegg at the foot of the Untersberg.

Geographical Imaginations will take a break this 4th Saturday of December and replay our pilot episode, the first, where we outlined the show and discussed the Keyword: Geographical Imagination. Please listen to us again in the New Year as we explore a variety of questions and themes that help us better understand the shape and size of the spaces and places that inform the way in which we imagine the world. In the coming months we will look at UNESCO cultural heritage designation, the Voyage of St. Brendan, rhythmanalysis, pedagogy and more….

From the show the warmest wishes for a Happy New Year! We hope your own imagination expands enormously in the coming year.

One of Flora’s Favorite Free Radio Broadcasts

Fox — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 10:58:10 +0000

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.

Call for Participation

Fox — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 11:58:45 +0000

Do you design creative and imaginative lesson plans that time and again have helped students to develop and expand their geographical imaginations?

If so, I would like to include some of your best creativity in a radio show/podcast committed to the exploration of this imagination. I am looking for AP Human Geography Readers planning to be in Cincinnati this June who are interested in collaborating for an episode (or more) dedicated to pedagogy.

I understand that most, if not all, of what we do as geography teachers/professors informs our students’ geographical imaginations. However, I want to bring together a variety of voices and variety of pedagogical strategies to explore “outside the box” lessons that either explicitly open discussion of the geographical imagination as a way of knowing or lessons that introduce geographical concepts in imaginative and exciting ways. Especially welcome are ideas that foster the development of a geographical imagination with environmental, economic, social and political justice at their core.

Meetings/interviews will be conducted off-site and after work hours during the week of the reading.

If interested, check out the show here: https://www.geographicalimaginations.org/ and contact Kevin S. Fox (APHG Reader) via email at geographical.imaginations@gmail.com with any comments or questions.

Geographical Imaginations @ Pecha Kucha Night Salzburg Vol. 24

Fox — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 16:04:56 +0000

Pecha Kucha Night Salzburg Vol. 24

Fox — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 19:55:31 +0000

Check out the Pecha Kucha presentation (20 slides, 20 seconds per slide) on Geographical Imaginations this Thursday evening, February 26th at 20.20 hours at ARGEkultur in downtown Salzburg. I will outline the show and propose to do more public geographies with interested groups in and around the City of Mozart. More information on both Pecha Kucha and the host organization can be found here.

Making Episode One

Fox — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:31:08 +0000

Footage taken by Sonia Ibáñez during the recording for the show’s very first episode. This is Studio B at Radio Fabrik in Salzburg, Austria.