Not an easy read, this one, but an interesting one. Carefully worked out arguments for a moderately extended cognition & maps as cognitive tools. I loved the bit about designing a better maps for pedestrians in Venice.
#maps #cognition

The calm prose relates joy, terror & grief in a measured tone. It's a kind of anti-reminiscence - the story unfolds through the refusal to open the suitcase. In doing so, it highlights the uncertain boundary between memory & imagination.

Finished reading this over the weekend. Good stuff: Balanced & thoughtful. Occasionally funny, often deeply saddening. Not sure where that thread of reading will go next.

More holiday/travel reading. Really enjoyed this. Careful & insightful. The author is grounded in planning & art history, which leaves plenty of scope for more ethnographic work.

Just finished this lovely book on small #museums. Rich descriptions and thoughtful analysis - fabulous stuff.

Currently in Antwerp to give a lecture on heritage volunteering but I gave time, this morning, to visit another museum.

My first go at reading #Dickens since I left school. I enjoyed it more than I expected. Possibly even enough to try others.

Reviewing academic papers is an unpaid job and publishers, who couldn't function without us, struggle to find meaningful ways to recompense that labour. Here's one: Springer could let anyone who does a review for one of their journsls use their staff cafe when they're passing through London.

Another data gathering day (last one for a while). It is a privilege to be able to meet people & learn from their experiences. Photo taken along the way to the first interview.

Really enjoyed reading this. Thoroughly grounded in research but written in an engaging, accessible style. It is a little old now, so someone ought to pay the author to do an update.

Beautifully written: gentle erudition balanced with a playful wit.

Daytripping...

Just finished this book: erudite eloquent & thoughtful. It wasn't really work reading but it gave me a useful frame for thinking about what I'm trying to do in my research.

Sunny day in Stirling with good talk & and thought-provoking presentations at #MYMConf2025
#volunteering #heritage #Scotland

It's a fine day for fieldwork.

Travelling north for fieldwork tomorrow & presenting at #MYM2025 in Stirling on Thursday. The train journey up the coast to Edinburgh is one of my favourites.

Online interviewing for research today, but here's a the view from a recent trip for an in-person interview. #volunteering in #museums