ABSTRACT
This chapter frames some of how and what students can learn from a course that provides opportunities for direct encounters with the local environment and that requires them to be thoughtful about ways to document such imbroglios. Turning from literal mapping—conducted by using the mind to make a visual and textual picture—students can perform flaneury, using the body to map a route and experience things and place first hand. Flaneury provides an opportunity for direct and relatively unmediated experience—for touching objects, sensing elements in place, and being in culture, rather than encouraging surface or second-hand observations overly reliant on conventions of language and habit. Flaneury is a call to try something different: to experience material place with deliberate sensory acuity, and thus to practice a form of creative or material thinking often associated with artists and the process of making and making dialogue about art.
