in this fifty-third episode of ventriloquy, i bring you my thoughts on how i went about exploring, and making sense of, the urban morphology of Manchester.
i'm currently visiting the city, to attend the annual conference of the United Kingdom's Geographical Association.
this 3.7 MB episode can be thought of as a conceptual follow-up to Episode Nine which i put together on July 24 last year from Las Vegas, in which i shared how i formulated my mental map of Caesar's Palace hotel. instead of wayfinding at the building level, today i talk about wayfinding at the scale of the city.
this ability to operate (often concurrently) at various scales is a key element which various geographers (including Margaret Roberts and Peter Jackson) have identified as geographical thinking.
the title of this post alludes to this ability, in that i believe that, borrowing ideas from quantum physics, effective learning environments for geography should be crafted such that learners are able to shift scales, and operate concurrently at various scales, in a manner which is largely transparent to them. looking ahead, this concept of the 'quantum classroom®' is something which i would like to build upon.
