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The Fall 2011 EIM conference was a walking conference.

The theme was Urbanisms.
We moved around Manhattan as presentations were given through different sections of New York.
We started at 1pm at S’Nice (45 8th Ave)
The end of our conference was scheduled for 4pm at Washington Sq. Park where planned to finish alongside a group of meditative slow-walkers.
Here is the writeup…..
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The Fall 2010 Experimental Inquiry Methodology Conference theme is Urbanisms.  For this conference we will be exploring the city of New York City using a methodology that fits it quite well- walking about it.  Each presentation will be a walking exploration of a particular section of Manhattan.

Presentations:

Aaron Finbloom- Letting the City Speak
Claire Epstein- Singage
Blake Morris- Walking Revision
Chloe Bass This land is no man’s: Investigating Urban Interstices

Urbanism rings so clearly to us city dwellers.  It implies a physical environment- cement, buildings, bridges, machines, cars, people.  It implies a history of this environment- events, important historical figures, changing demography.  But it also implies an entire array of things which are city-like, urban-esque.  Within the city there lies a complicated network of behaviors, cultures, ideas, socialites, psychologies, languages.  Different blocks have different ways of walking.  Certain neighborhoods have particular ways of thinking.  Urban structures have manifolds of acoustic resonances.  Varieties of commercial/residential/governmental establishments create varieties of socio-psycho-economical states of mind.