Found in translation? Reconfiguring the river edge of Cochrane, Patagonia, a travesía project of the Valparaíso School led by David Jolly and David Luza, November 2013

Título	Found in translation? Reconfiguring the river edge of Cochrane, Patagonia, a travesía project of the Valparaíso School led by David Jolly and David Luza, November 2013
Año	2016
Autor	Mary Ann Steane, David Jolly, David Luza
Tipo de Publicación	Artículo en Revista Académica
Revista	Brookes eJournal of Learning and Teaching
Editorial	Oxford Brookes University
Edición	8
Ciudad	Oxford
URL	http://bejlt.brookes.ac.uk/paper/found-in-translation-reconfiguring-the-river-edge-of-cochrane-patagonia-a-travesia-project-of-the-valparaiso-school-led-by-david-jolly-and-david-luza-november-2013/
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Resumen

A live project in Cochrane, Patagonia, termed a journey or travesía, whose aim was to reshape an important threshold between the town and its wilderness setting involved a group of staff and students from PUCV (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso) sharing a life in common for a fortnight in November 2013. Taking errantry in post-colonial discourse on identity as its theoretical point of departure, and using the Cochrane project as a case-study, this paper examines an apparent paradox: that in a travesía the creativity of wandering must be allied to a strictly organised plan of campaign. Exploring how and why such a shared journey stimulates not only the acquisition of metis (practical wisdom or artful cunning), but a new capacity to ‘make the land speak’, it draws attention to the risk-taking negotiation skills on which wayfarers depend. Importantly the travesía is shown to be a form of learning-to-build whose arena for insightful play transforms design into an essentially collaborative transaction. Finally, the paper discusses why, as a kind of time-limited ‘trial’ away from Valparaíso to prepare students for the battle of practice, the travesía chooses some but not all the limits and opportunities of ‘liveness’.