Walking to Learn

Visitors to our campus are often given what is fondly called the "backwards walk," a guided tour of the university, conducted by a corps of highly skilled OSU Ambassadors. You can see them on sunny mornings, fanning out from Enarson Hall, like birds flocking behind the call of their leader.

Walking backwards may create interesting perspectives, but Walkscape does not offer guided tours. We're looking for un-guided tours, straying off the beaten paths, improvising rather than following the script. Walks that occasion observation, contemplation, rumination, conversation, insight. Alongside the established campus map, there are other, imaginary maps--possible worlds of knowledge, speculative labyrinths, lines of desire.

William Zinsser published a book, back in the eighties, called Writing to Learn. Walkscape could be called "Walking to Learn."