Find out more about National Fieldwork Week here.
I am going to be doing some fieldwork with all my classes in the week beginning the 6th of June.
Today is the 24th of May.
Twelve years ago today, the first (orange) Mission:Explore book was published by Can of Worms Press, designed by Emily Atkins, with a cover designed by Helen Leigh. The original idea came from a conversation I had with Daniel Raven Ellison - the first of many over the last fifteen years or so.
This book has a whole range of missions which could form the basis for some creative fieldwork - that was the original reason for its creation.
Read more about the book and missions in an article in 'Geography' by Richard Phillips from 2012.
Richard has also led his own creative fieldwork excursions as part of undergraduate study. They are inspired (as was the whole of my Presidential theme of Quotidian / Everyday Geographies by Georges Perec, and Richard co-wrote a book on Perec, published for free by UCL Press. (PDF download)
Here is the 'motherlode' which is the original 500+ missions we wrote for the first book, and then handed them to young people who decided which were their favourites. We then had a selection inked up by Tom Morgan Jones.
The book is portable. Take it outside and allow it to give you 'permission' to do something a little silly.
The week has the theme of CHANGE.
If you do use this, or any other of the ideas I share, please let us know about what you do. We will be asking people to share their outcomes in various ways. Remember that the theme is CHANGE.
Use the hashtag: #nationalfieldworkweek
Images: Alan Parkinson, shared under CC license
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