If you would like to learn more about the FootNotes’ theoretical background, we invite you to look at the scientific outputs of our authors. The open-access texts in this study room discuss the use of writing and walking as research methods, they reflect on the interplay between theory and practice and between scholarly and creative practices and observe dialogues between routes and borders. In the broadest sense.
The use of writing has a special place in our theoretical endeavors. Namely, in comparison to walking, writing as a method is an under-researched topic as there is a persistent belief that writing comes at the end of a scholarly enquiry, following the consecutive read-research-write logic. We want to loosen the rigidity of these prescribed steps and use writing as a full-bloodied method in its own right –an “art of knowing”, vital to broader methodological and epistemological concerns that bring walking and writing more closely together.