Walking Video as A/r/tographic Exploration of Children’s Community Mapping

Walking videos offer a way to collectCollect rich qualitative data, including human behaviour, environmentalEnvironmental factors, contextual background, spatialSpatial information, and social structures. In this chapter, we describe how we employed a walking video project as a new pedagogical tool to facilitate children’sChildren embodied experienceExperience in their community. 37 sixth-grade childrenChildren in Seoul, KoreaSouth KoreaSeoul, were invited to participate and produced their walking videos. Through analyzing the videos, journals, and participants’ comments, we learned that walking videos can become a valuable tool and means for studentsStudents to connectConnect with their peers and teachers, as well as offering rich data and findings for their community experiences. The childrenChildren deeply explored and documented their surroundings through walking video while makingMaking personal connections with places and spaces in the community. We conclude that walking videos, as a multi-media art project,Walkwalking video provide a method of rich documentationDocumentation of storytellingStorytelling, personal histories, and visual culture experiencesExperienceMulti-mediaArt.