Walking Pedagogies: Brixton and Windrush Square with Rahul Patel and Dr Gurnam Singh

Rahul Patel takes Dr Gurnam Singh on a walk around key monuments and buildings in Windrush Square in Brixton, South London, where he grew up. Through these key sites we learn about the often-overlooked contributions of the Windrush generation to British society as well as the barriers and discrimination that Black communities have faced, particularly in terms of education. The points on the walk mark key events that led to the 1981 uprisings that demonstrated against the prevalent structural racial inequality in Britain.

Walking pedagogies is a series of audio dialogues exploring pedagogy through conversation and walking. The project brings UAL staff and practitioners together to curate and lead meaningful walks rooted in specific locations to share personal context and history. Drawing on walking ethnographic practice and psychogeography, these recordings become unique records of what it is to be a teacher in this moment in time. They take us out of the university to encounter in wider environmental and political contexts and issues. 

For more information visit: https://walkingpedagogies.myblog.arts.ac.uk/

Rahul Patel teaches on both the MA and BA Culture, Criticism and Curation programmes at Central Saint Martins and has initiated numerous Transformative Pedagogies programmes including Reading Collections, Decolonising the Arts Curriculum zines and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks. Interpretations, Art and Pedagogy.

Dr Gurnam Singh is currently Professor of Sociology at Warwick University and was previously Visiting Fellow in Race and Education at UAL.

Gemma Riggs is Resource Developer within UAL’s Learning and Teaching Directorate and a practicing artist and filmmaker.

Walking Pedagogies has been prodced by the Learning and Teaching Directorate at the University of the Arts London. For more materials exploring pedagogy at UAL visit: www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/learning-and-teaching/resources