In EPISODE THIRTY ONE we use statistics to bring the world closer to home and to inform how we think about our place within the milieu. Forget about trying to understand 7.5 billion people. What if the world was a village of 100–each member of that community representing 1% of the world population? Joining us is Lisa Frank of the 100 People Foundation as we talk about statistics and the impact they have on the geographical imagination.
In Dances with Bees we venture to the shores of Wolfgangsee to visit the apiary of Nobel Prize winner Karl von Frisch to see first-hand and explore how honeybees communicate their geographical (i.e. spatial) knowledge through dance. Joining us are Professors Jürgen Tautz and Randolf Menzel of Germany who have dedicated their scientific lives to better understanding spatial memory and navigation.
In A Great American Pilgrimage we walk 3500 kilometers from Maine to Georgia in the Eastern woods of the United States traversing the ridge-line of the oldest mountains in the world, the Appalachians. Join Sonia “Chulapa” Ibáñez and Kevin “Cow’s Head” Fox as they meet America face-to-face. We will look at what it means to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail and discuss this “other side of America.” Joining us are Harpo, Delta and the Big Galoot.
In Auf Deutsch Bitte we explore linguistic borrowings from German. Joining the show in conversation are Salzburg locals and Sprachgefüle Marie Damisch and Daniel Url. We discuss the word-concepts Weltanshauung,Heimat, Weltansichten and Welträtsel amongst others. Inevitably we come back to the question: how much does language shape our understanding of the world? Listen and broaden your geographical imagination here in Central Europe and/or beyond.
In EPISODE TWENTY SEVEN we explore alternatives to the conventional world map and question how much this standard image of the world frames and limits our own imaginations of the globe. We speak with Julia Mia Stirnemann about her World Map Generator, an online tool designed to help de-center the way we think about the conventional cartographic representations of the world.
