Squeezing it in: packing as collaborative experience in hostelling accommodation Barry, Kaya 2013, Squeezing it in: packing as collaborative experience in hostelling accommodation, in 2013 : Responsible Geographies : Proceedings of the Nordic Geographers 2013 Meeting, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Squeezing it in: packing as collaborative experience in hostelling accommodation Author(s) Barry, Kaya Conference name Nordic Geographers. Meeting (5th : 2013 : Reykjavík, Iceland) Conference location Reykjavik, Iceland Conference dates 11-14 Jun. 2013 Title of proceedings 2013 : Responsible Geographies : Proceedings of the Nordic Geographers 2013 Meeting Editor(s) [Unknown] Publication date 2013 Conference series Nordic Geographers meeting Publisher University of Iceland Place of publication Reykjavik, Iceland Keyword(s) travel tourism creativity non-human collective materiality Notes As international travel and global mobilities increase, contemporary travellers are presented with a range of collaborative and performative experiences. With each transition, they encounter a range of material, spatial and collaborative processes, becoming indicators of their embodied, aesthetic and cultural engagements with the world. The daily act of packing a bag evolves into a creative practice that engages a range of material strategies: imagination, projection and performance. These strategies of material coordination strengthen relations between objects, environments and bodies, which in turn enhances the collaborative and communal experiences that are intensified within hostelling accommodation. This paper draws on interviews and photographic documentation of travellers to hostels in Reykjavík and Berlin, exploring how material belongings forge connections between travellers, and facilitating situated, collaborative and creative knowledge production. As theory, creativity and everyday practices congeal, propositions such as Rosi Braidotti’s nomadic philosophy and Bruno Latour’s notion of collective action provide ways for examining these experiences within a more affective, nomadic and sustainable culture of travel. As part of an investigation into affective material encounters in-transit, this paper develops the notion that the process of packing a bag in hostelling accommodation can provide alternative modes of navigating through personal, material and communal experiences. Language eng Field of Research 199999 Studies in Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified 150699 Tourism not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing HERDC Research category EN Other conference paper Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30054734 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Communication and Creative Arts Related Links Link Description Evidence Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 01 Aug 2013, 14:32:26 EST Thu, 01 Aug 2013, 16:00:40 EST Thu, 08 Aug 2013, 14:38:29 EST Fri, 16 Aug 2013, 09:22:02 EST Mon, 19 Aug 2013, 09:51:57 EST Tue, 20 Aug 2013, 08:54:21 EST Thu, 22 Aug 2013, 12:36:31 EST Fri, 22 Aug 2014, 16:06:33 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 96 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 01 Aug 2013, 14:32:12 EST by Kaya Tatjana Barry