(Learning the language of the Ordinary)

Notes from a talk given during Greenbelt on Iona week - May 2006

A visual and verbal presentation of one of my parish walks, and an introduction to various stimulating methods of learning the deep language of the ordinary in the places we presently, perhaps, take for granted.




This talk was an adaptation of Towards an Urban Theology of Land, Part 1 and Part 2 - please click links to see them.


Further reading, viewing, etc, on these themes:


Rachel Antony, Joel Henry, The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel, Lonely Planet 2005

Alexander Carmichael, Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations from the Gaelic, Floris 2004

Common Ground website

Clifford, S, King, A (eds): Local Distinctiveness - Place, Particularity and Identity, Common Ground 1993

Bill Drummond, How Kenny Got Twinned

Timothy Gorringe, A Theology of the Built Environment, Cambridge 2002

John Inge, A Christian Theology of Place, Ashgate 2003

Patrick Keiller, DVD: London / Robinson In Space, 1994; Book: Robinson in Space, Reaktion Books 1999

Andrew Kotting, DVD: Gallivant, 2005

Michael Leunig website

Doreen Massey, Space, Place and Gender, Polity Press 1994

W.Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge

Mis-Guides website

Joe Moran, Reading the Everyday, Routledge 2005

Martin Parr, Video: Think of England, 1999; Books: Martin Parr, Phaidon Press 2004, Boring Postcards, Phaidon Press 2004

William Raban, British Artists' Films, 2004

Site-Sight website

Iain Sinclair, Books: London Orbital, Lights Out for the Territory; DVD (with Chris Petit): London Orbital, 2004

Dave Walker, www.cartoonchurch.com, Dullest Blog in the World

Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale (The Caravan Gallery) Welcome to Britain; A Celebration of Real Life, Headline 2005

Raymond Williams, Resources of Hope: Culture, Democracy, Socialism, London, Verso 1989; The Country and the City, Oxford 1973


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