Geography and all that Jazz

Urban Earth is a project developed by Dan Raven Ellison . I have blogged about it on numerous occasions before as a way for young people to re-present the urban spaces that they inhabit. Ben Major has put together a great resource called URBAN STORIES on the GA website. This suggests some additional ideas for using Dan's original URBAN EARTH walks and images....

A message from Urban Earth creator Dan Raven Ellison... We've three events for you to join if you're going to be in the UK - if not, we'd love it if you would set up an event of your own. See below. 27th August - URBAN STORY: LONDON RED This walk will track through some of the most deprived parts of Greater London. 10th October - URBAN EARTH: WEST YORKSHIRE URBAN AREA The West Yorkshire conurbation includes Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield and Wakefield. This is going to be a 25km, 8 hour walk. 29th January - URBAN EARTH EVENT: CANTERBURY (UK) Invade, capture and expose Canterbury (UK) by joining over 60 people in this intimate weekend. Get 10% off the weekend with the code: tenpercentoff Create an event.. Creating an event is easy - you can post one on our Ning at http://urbanearth.ning.com and invite people to take part. There are currently three different types of URBAN EARTH event so all you have to do is pick one and get going... 1. URBAN EARTH This is a walk from one si...

Urban Earth Day - the first hour  URBAN EARTH: DAY is a side project of urban earth. The idea is simple, text based and all going well will result in a 24 chapter book. The idea is to gather together a subjective view of our urban habitat through a series of simultaneous global walks. What we sense, feel and think will posted as twitters as we go, creating a spontaneous urban portrait of where we all are. The first walk will take place on a Sunday at 12:00(GMT)... but we will work around the clock. Two weeks later the walk will take place at 13:00(GMT).. until after 24 hours and 24 walks we have 24 chapters of a book... made up of our 140 character twittered thoughts. So you'll need an hour, a city and a mobile phone for this one. How to take part... 1. Set up a twitter account. Have a play. 2. Find a city or urban area. 3. At 12:00AM GMT on 24.05.09 go for a walk. .. If you are in the Solomon Islands, yes - walk at night! 4. Twitter as you go.. feelings, smells, thoughts, prices,...

Urban Earth Day Walk Dan Ellison has another plan... Another URBAN EARTH event - but just an hour and you may well not need to go too far to take part... Let's all do this one.... URBAN EARTH: DAY is a side project of urban earth. The idea is simple, text based and all going well will result in a 24 chapter book. The idea is to gather together a subjective view of our urban habitat through a series of simultaneous global walks. What we sense, feel and think will posted as twitters as we go, creating a spontaneous urban portrait of where we all are. The first walk will take place on a Sunday at 12:00(GMT)... but we will work around the clock. Two weeks later the walk will take place at 13:00(GMT).. until after 24 hours and 24 walks we have 24 chapters of a book... made up of our 140 character twittered thoughts. So you'll need an hour, a city and a mobile phone for this one. Who's game? Check out the URBAN EARTH NING to sign up.... Tweet using the hashtag #ueday

Coastal Earth Rich Allaway's homage to Dan's Urban Earth ...

Urban Earth - visit website for bigger versions... One of the most creative geographers I've had the pleasure of working with over the last few years is Daniel Raven Ellison. Earlier this year, he visited London, Mexico City and Mumbai and walked across them, taking an image very 8 paces to create these compelling movies for URBAN EARTH . Below is the MUMBAI film.... A Newcastle Urban Earth event is planned for the 25th of January 2009 - more details later. Thanks for the mention in the end-credits too Dan... Unless if was a different Alan P...