Does the Slow Movement ring a bell? This item is on the slow movement, slow travel inclusive an iconic landscape travel TV, mindfull slow movement...
This movement started with slow food ,
but rapidly expanded in many other cultural fields, including slow travel.
Well, by now you perhaps know I'm studying aspects of pilgrimage, landscape, movement and experience. So, I want to guide your attention on a spin-off. The nice concept of slow travel or slow tourism as an example of performed transmodernity. A concept related to backpacking, eco-tourism and volunteer tourism. A concept related to pilgrim/tourist traveling.
Encountering a new lifestyle.
Here are a few pointers...
Introduction
Wikipedia: "The slow movementadvocates a cultural shift toward slowing down life's pace. It began with Carlo Petrini's protest against the opening of a McDonald's restaurant in Piazza di Spagna, Rome in 1986 that sparked the creation of the slow food movement. Over time, this developed into a subculture in other areas, like the Cittaslow organisation for "slow cities". The "slow" epithet has subsequently been applied to a variety of activities and aspects of culture."
Ted presentation by
Carl Honore: In praise of slowness
(20:00)
Manifesto
"Slow travel is about making conscious choices, and not letting the anticipation of arrival undermine the pleasure of the journey. By choosing to travel slowly, we reshape our relationship with place and with the communities through which we pass on our journeys. In 2009 we launched our 'Manifesto for slow travel'."
Carl Honoré, journalist and author of In Praise of Slowness, talking about Slow Travel
(7:59)
Carl Honore
Slow Travel,
presentation from Verena Erin
SLOW - A short film about van life- English version
Because life’s too short to live too fast.
"Synopsis: Two couples traveling around the world in two camper vans decide to discover the Ecuadorian jungle together. Through a word game they realize that everything is interconnected. This short film is a reflection on the structures Western society forces upon us.
Directed by: Marta Tibau and Marià Miño"
(9:59)
Mmviatges - Furgo en ruta
Topping off
How can we deal with the addictive nature of speed? Carl Honoré, Gervais Williams, Deepa Patel and Kate Fletcher explore how we can improve our quality of life, well-being and creativity by applying the principles of slow.
The slow revolution
RSA
(17:43)
And finally if you have some time to spend. The Bergen line to Oslo, an iconic slow-TV program in 2009. See the slow slowly changing landscape. (7:14:13)
More on mindfull walking is said and written by Thich Nhat Hanh .
The miracle of walking on the earth.
Perhaps here is a clue on taking the 'camino experience' home, at least partly! See more on this website article 'From pilgrimage to walking meditation'
There are several 'slow' related books like..
(and many articles...)
An article on pilgrimage and slow travel from these books can be found on Academia: " We are
pilgrims through time - Augustine
The path of modernity is one
characterized by acceleration, interconnection and mobility. Amidst the
increasingly fast tempo of life in late modernity, contemporary pilgrims and
other ‘slow travellers’ express needs and desires for alternative experiences
of temporality, while subverting the dominant ‘cult of speed’. My objective in
this chapter is to focus on issues of temporality in exploring three aspects of
slow travel: the potential contradictions it presents, its direct relationship
to modernization and its link to pilgrimage."
This, I think, is an interesting compilation on some popular topics of nature.
I'm deeply researching landscape, experience and pilgrimage. So, yes, also interested in relationships of human - nature, let's skip the dichotomy;-)
Perhaps it's the postmodern motive to long for the rural/nature to escape from the urban.
Perhaps humans have attachments to specific landscapes, like the savanna as ancestral environment of early Homo in the savanna theory. Which perhaps leads to problems with our modern environment?
Well, I compiled some nature snippits.
Have a look at what nature does for the brain,
find out of nature is right for you,
know about this nature practice: shinrin-yoku?,
enjoy the nature therapy,
plus a bonus and some additional links to other readings and research.
And by all means, try the nature therapy,
it's not the real thing, but does it work in any way for you?
Startoff with an article from the Guardian.
"Travel broadens the mind, but can it alter the brain?
Studies suggest that taking a gap year or studying abroad can positively influence your brain to make you more outgoing and open to new ideas.
"Rock graffiti is not natural. It's a form of vandalism. Rock graffiti, even if seemingly impermanent, disturbs the natural state of the environment for other visitors."
Some Facebookers agree, some say the park's opinion is way over the top.
Well, that's an interesting phenomenon.
Are the tourists in the national parks natural? Are the natural parks natural?
In protected areas or cultural heritage sites this people-practice is probably unwanted. Don't want to build these cairns of Palmyra heritage stones.
Cairns are longstanding manmade objects in nature, perhaps you recognise them from mountain tops or along trails.
(Wikipedia commons)
Adagium for urban explorers/photographers: leave nothing but footsteps, take nothing but pictures. Many tourists, pilgrims, travelers however like to leave a 'I was here' (ego cairns), I'm part of this landscape, a souvenir not taken home. The objects become part of the landscape.
On the Camino the Santiago, in itself a manmade trail, people often see these sculptures as an important practice. What anthropologist Tim Ingold would call a taskscape.
For those who walked: remember the impressive tens of thousands of crosses in fences in several places?
The following examples are no traditional pilgrimage endeavour. Allthough, several scholars (Couldry, Hills, Beeton) consider film-induced tourism as a contemporary form of pilgrimage (says Leotta in 2016 Navigating Movie (M)apps).
Don't know where to go during holidays? Some suggestions..
Travel weekly had an item on increasing rail tourism due to film tourism.
“This year, for example, we can report that countries including Spain, Austria and Switzerland, all of which have been involved in major motion pictures recently, enjoyed a healthy increase in the number of train travellers from Australia and New Zealand in the first half of 2016."
"Fredrik Sørdal, the mayor of the nearby town of Flakstad said the growth in tourism was “challenging”, warning that infrastructure was already at breaking point, with acute problems with waste disposal, public toilets and parking, and severe erosion on paths leading to popular coastal locations.
“In Flakstad we have for example become extremely unbalanced when it comes to tourism this year, and need to take many measures before next year,” he said."
And finally some relativation:
"Depressingly, studies worldwide have shown that cinematic tourism has a limited life span as far as pulling tourists is concerned. In most cases, they are effective in kindling thoughts about a place in the minds of the clientele for a period of 4-6 months only."
"How do the landscapes we love shape the people we are? For several years and more than a thousand miles, Robert Macfarlane has been following the vast network of old paths and routes that criss-cross Britain and its waters, and connect them to countries and continents beyond. His journeys have taken him from the chalk downs of southern England to the remote bird-islands of the Scottish north-west, from the disputed territories of Palestine to the pilgrimage routes of Spain and the sacred landscapes of the eastern Himalayas.
Along the way -- along the ways -- he has walked stride for stride with a 5,000-year-old man near Liverpool, followed the 'deadliest path in Britain', sailed an open boat far out into the Atlantic along an ancient sea-road, and crossed paths with walkers of many kinds: wanderers, wayfarers, shamans, trespassers, poets, devouts, ghosts and dawdlers."
2012
iqsquared
(59:10)
Here you find the Q & A's on MacFarlane's lecture
And finally an audio interview with Robert MacFarlane on his book The Old Ways
This time a collection of lectures on historical aspects of pilgrimage.
The Manuscripts of the Codex Calixtinus
M. Alison Stones, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
TheMet
(57:25)
Santiago Beckons: Artist and Scholars on the Pilgrimage Road Janice Mann, Samuel H. Kress Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Bucknell University
The met
(51:03)
Santiago de Compostela and the French Connections
Elizabeth A. R. Brown, Professor of History, Emerita, The City University of New York
The med
(57:25)
Art, Experience, and the Exotic on the Road to Santiago
Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Dean of the College, Sarah Lawrence College
The Med
(1:02:45)
Art and Anecdote on the Road to Santiago
David L. Simon, Ellerton and Edith Jetté Professor of Art, Colby College
The Med
(52:58)
The Twelfth-Century Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela: Art and Mores along the Routes
The Med
(56:03)
Paula Gerson, Professor of Medieval Art, Florida State University
Last weekend the city Den Bosch in the Netherlands held 'The world of Jeroen Bosch', a festival turning the city centre into a medieval village: music, clothing, art, food, craftmenship, ...
Someone I cherish brought me a badge, an amulet for protecting pilgrims visiting the Maria statue in the St Jan church.
The silver tin replica contains consecrated soil from around the St Jan and dust from around the Maria altar.
It is made by Marc van de Aa.
The badge on a page of a local newspaper advertising the festival. (photo p kouwenberg)
Sweet mother Maria in cathedral (Source Bossche encyclopedie) Next to the Book of Miracles.
Painting by unknown De Lakenmarkt, medieval market in centre of Den Bosch. This painting was also part of the splendid Jheronimus Bosch exposition in the Noord Brabants Museum earlier in 2016
Drawings market Den Bosch
Photograph of Jheronimus Bosch exposition in the Noord Brabants Museum. (photo by Omroep Brabant, Henk van Esch) Until 11 09 2016 at the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
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