This can be found in SUB. Only this morning did I stop to take the time to photograph it on my phone. "Things you love about Edmonton"... I find it amusing that this category boasts the fewest responses. More than anything, though, I feel like this representation of Edmonton is rather empty and minimal. It's easy enough to name things or places within the city that we enjoy, much like we did at the beginning of the year in this class. It's much harder, however, to think about the city in a different way, to see beyond the physical places that exist to see the underlying construct of the city and to understand what it really means to be an "Edmontonian". These people clearly should have taken this course.
Further giggles at the fact that "summer activities" is listed. What about winter activities? I find that this plays into my presentation a bit --- Edmontonians ignore half of our identity (no one cares to remember the winter and how *different* it is here!), hence our ambivalence.
I also just wanted to thank everyone for their wonderful ideas and insight into the city -- the course wouldn't have been nearly so interesting or informative if it wasn't for the many brilliant minds in the room. =)
When first glancing at the picture before going on to read your post, I also thought that the comments surrounding "Things you love about Edmonton" resembled those made by all of us at the beginning of the year (My answer of "festivals" is even up there). Edmonton was viewed as a "space" rather than a "place". We were all able to identify the physical, objective, and somewhat empty components of the city which make up the definition we gave "space" at the start of the term, but were unable to identify any real "place" within the city. I think that as the class progressed this has changed, and we are now more in tune with the lived experiences we have within the city which gives it more importance to us, therefore making this Edmonton space, more of a place. Whewww rhyming.
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