Walks 

Early Recordings

Test_01

• Describing a walk outside in a park while within a small living room of a terraced house

• Name: M.B.
• Date: 21/11/05
• mp3: http://www.walkinghereandthere.org/podcasts/mb_221105.mp3
  
• Podcast: http://www.walkinghereandthere.org/podcasts/podcast.xml

Observations

• This was the first trial of the 'talking aloud' method; instuctions were given to the participant to walk within a room,  describing a walk that they remember making elsewhere.
• Participant chose to describe an outdoor walk , in park in the town in which they grew-up. It was therefore no surprise that the decription contained mainly annecdotal information, relating to events that were meaningful to the participant and that had accured within the space.
• An interview was conducted after the walking/describing
• mp3: http://www.walkinghereandthere.org/podcasts/mb_221105_interview.mp3
• podcast: http://www.walkinghereandthere.org/podcasts/mb_221105.xml
• Participant commented that they were aware of the interaction between real and remembered spaces; for example, when describing a broken bridge, they stopped their walk in real space.
• Participant mentioned that the real space had impact on how much of the remembered walk could be described - spatial and temporal aspects of the remembered walk were compressed to 'fit' within the smaller, real space.
• On observing the participant walking and describing in real space, the question of where the 'work' resides was brought into focus;  it could be in:
1. the participant walking and describing
• walking & talking
•  dislocated from  real space
• embedded in remembered space
  
2. the  participant walking and listening to description of another space
•  walking & listening
•  dislocated from remembered space
• embedded in real  space
3. participant describes the interaction between  real space and remembered space
• walking & talking
• embedded in both real & remembered space

 Conclusions

• Participant may describe annecdotes rather than their recollections of moving within the remembered space

Recommendations

• Participants should be given more precise instructions to describe their movements through - and the characteristics of -  the remembered space.