Slow movement Slow travel Slow landscape

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 movement advocates 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'."

See full manifest on:

A manifesto for Slow Travel, Nicky Gardner

More on 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 slow-TV in the article ´Slow TV is here´from Nathan Heller in The New Yorker 2014. 

A special type of mindfull slow movement is het meditation method of Kinhin, often performed between two sessions of Zazen.

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."

Howard: Speeding up and slowing down, Pilgrimage and Slow Travel through time.

Link to website of Slow Movement here.

"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."

A. C. Benson

Take life slow !
See you next time with better hearth rhythm variability ;-)