Urban Adventures: Re-Writing Urban Space

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In this class we will immerse ourselves in the art of creative non-fiction as a means to rigorously explore and investigate urban spaces. Through in-class and at-home writing exercises, reading, text-experiments, and urban investigations, students will generate writing about an urban space, imaginatively mapping both their own neighborhoods and communities, as well as communities not their own. We will tell stories of our version of urban spaces and wander cities in search of new stories. We will be post-modem flaneurs and psycho-geographers. The emphasis will be on creating alternative cartographies and new visions of the city for the 21st century, and in the process coming up with a vibrant re-thinking of the very notion of community, city, and the urban self.