Inhabiting Landscape: Walking as an Act of Practicing and Being Practiced

In this chapter we—Tormod and Helene—processProcess experiencesExperience from our individual everydayEveryday walking practices in our near surroundings in NorwayNorway and DenmarkDenmark. We adopt a process-oriented a/r/tographic approach, foregrounding how affectiveAffectaffective experiences of movingMovemoving through well-known landscapesLandscape intertwine with conceptsConcept that have livedLivinglived with us in our shared practice as artsArt educators and researchers: Inhabiting as a method for exploring criticalCritical questions through our own practice, thusInquiryqualitative inquiry forming aInquiryliving inquiry livedInquiry inquiryInquirya/r/tographic inquiry inInquiryartistic inquiry artsArt andInquiryembodied inquiry educationEducationmuseum education, practice, asEducation a way of connecting to the world and changing it, and the whole notion of ‘landscapeLandscape,' which rests on historical constructions of ideas about the human-world relationship. We discuss how we may rethink this relationship through involving our practices as researchers and educators—and walkers.