June challenge: 2019 version
May. 10th, 2019 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nouIt’s nearly time for the June challenge! I’m hoping to get more of it done this year, since my breathing difficulties seem to be on their way to being fixed.
Here are the themes: theme I: buses, theme II: lines, theme III: doing something different. Here are reports from previous years: I.(a), I.(b), I.(c), I.(d), II.(a), II.(b), II.(c), II.(d), III.(a), III.(b), III.(c), III.(d), III.(e).
To complete the challenge, all you need to do is:
- Make an attempt during June 2019 to follow at least one set of instructions from at least one theme.
- Report back to the community, either via a complete trip report or simply by leaving a comment on this post stating what you did and how it went.
Nobody has asked for ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
flaneurs swag for a few years now, but I still have some supplies (stickers, badges, and postcards) if anyone wants some to mark successful completion of a challenge.
nouHello Flâneurs! If you have any pending June challenge reports, please get them in ASAP since I’ll be doing a roundup within the next week.
Also a request for feedback. I’ve been wondering for a while whether doing the challenge in a solstice month is a bad idea. June is generally quite hot in London, and last year I backed out on doing one of the challenges because I couldn’t face the heat. Would an equinox month be better? In practice, unless someone else is willing to admin the challenge, this would mean March, since I have a recurring commitment in September that takes up a lot of my time.
So a poll! This is not binding, just to get an idea of opinions. Please feel free to opinionate in comments too or instead.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12
Should we switch the Flâneurs challenge month from June to March?
June challenge: 2018 version
May. 23rd, 2018 12:52 pmnousecretlondon reminded me that it’s nearly time for the June challenge! My respiratory health is terrible at the moment and so I’m not certain I’ll be able to participate, but I’ll be eagerly reading other people’s reports regardless.
Here are the themes: theme I: buses, theme II: lines, theme III: doing something different. Here are reports from previous years: I.(a), I.(b), I.(c), I.(d), II.(a), II.(b), II.(c), II.(d), III.(a), III.(b), III.(c), III.(d), III.(e).
To complete the challenge, all you need to do is:
- Make an attempt during June 2018 to follow at least one set of instructions from at least one theme.
- Report back to the community, either via a complete trip report or simply by leaving a comment on this post stating what you did and how it went.
As before, various bits of flaneurs swag will be offered to everyone who completes the challenge. The more themes you try, the more swag you get.
(Swag is currently stickers, badges, and postcards. I would be very grateful to anyone who can volunteer to organise a different type. You don’t have to be able to afford to pay for it — I have that covered — just able to decide what it should be and then make it happen.)
Reminder: June challenge
May. 25th, 2017 02:26 pmnouJust a quick reminder that the June challenge starts soon.
Anyone got any plans firmed up yet? I’ve organised a date to do my regular bus challenge (i.e. I.c) with bob, and I'm planning to do the next stage in my bit-by-bit West Croydon to London Bridge walk (amended version of II.a) too.
June challenge: 2017 version
May. 1st, 2017 07:32 pmnouIt’s nearly time for our June challenge! Are you as excited as I am?
Here are the themes: theme I: buses, theme II: lines, theme III: doing something different. Here are reports from previous years: I.(a), I.(c), I.(d), II.(a), II.(b), II.(c), II.(d), III.(a), III.(b), III.(c), III.(d), III.(e).
To complete the challenge, all you need to do is:
- Make an attempt during June 2017 to follow at least one set of instructions from at least one theme.
- Report back to the community, either via a complete trip report or simply by leaving a comment on this post stating what you did and how it went.
As before, various bits of flaneurs swag will be offered to everyone who completes the challenge. The more themes you try, the more swag you get.
(Swag is currently stickers, badges, and postcards. I would be very grateful to anyone who can volunteer to organise a different type. You don’t have to be able to afford to pay for it — I have that covered — just able to decide what it should be and then make it happen.)
June challenge: 2016 version
May. 5th, 2016 08:15 amnouIt's nearly June challenge time again! Who's joining in this year?
Here are the themes: theme I: buses, theme II: lines, theme III: doing something different. Here are reports from previous years: I.(a), I.(c), I.(d), II.(a), II.(b), II.(c), II.(d), III.(a), III.(b), III.(c), III.(d).
Note there are a couple of changes from previous years. In theme I (buses), I've removed the constraint that you have to start at a bus stop near your home or workplace. You can always choose to obey this constraint anyway if you want to. In theme III (doing something different), I've added a new option, III. (e), designed by secretlondon.
To complete the challenge, all you need to do is:
- Make an attempt during June 2016 to follow at least one set of instructions from at least one theme.
- Report back to the community, either via a complete trip report or simply by leaving a comment on this post stating what you did and how it went.
As before, various bits of flaneurs swag will be offered to everyone who completes the challenge (we have stickers, badges, and postcards). The more themes you try, the more swag you get.
June challenge: 2015 version
May. 7th, 2015 09:29 amnouIt's nearly June challenge time again! Who's joining in this year? Edit: It's June! Full steam ahead on the challenges!
Here are the themes: theme I: buses, theme II: lines, theme III: doing something different. Here are reports from previous years: I.(a), I.(c), I.(d), II.(a), II.(b), II.(c), II.(d), III.(a), III.(b), III.(c), III.(d).
To complete the challenge, all you need to do is:
- Make an attempt during June 2015 to follow at least one set of instructions from at least one theme.
- Report back to the community, either via a complete trip report or simply by leaving a comment on this post stating what you did and how it went.
As before, various bits of flaneurs swag will be offered to everyone who completes the challenge (we have stickers, badges, and postcards). The more themes you try, the more swag you get.
June challenges — admin note
Jul. 3rd, 2014 04:24 pmnouThank you all for posting reports of June challenges! I am a bit overwhelmed with things to do at the moment so haven't even been able to post my own challenge report, let alone write up a roundup of everyone else's.
Is anyone able to volunteer to write this year's roundup? You can see previous roundups under the June challenge roundup tag. The wonderful spiralsheep will be writing this year's roundup in a couple of weeks' time — so get your reports and/or comments in before then! It's fine to just leave a brief comment noting which challenge you did — it doesn't have to be a full report.
June challenge: 2014 version
May. 5th, 2014 06:50 pmnouIt's nearly June! Let's do the June challenge again.
Here are the themes: theme I: buses, theme II: lines, theme III: doing something different. Here are reports from previous years: I.(a), I.(c), I.(d), II.(a), II.(b), II.(c), II.(d), III.(a), III.(b), III.(c), III.(d).
To complete the challenge, all you need to do is:
- Make an attempt during June 2014 to follow at least one set of instructions from at least one theme.
- Report back to the community, either via a complete trip report or simply by leaving a comment on this post stating what you did and how it went.
As before, various bits of flaneurs swag will be offered to everyone who completes the challenge. The more themes you try, the more swag you get.
Who's in?
nouHello, flaneurs! Just a small administrative note that I've changed my regular Dreamwidth account from kake to nou, and have made the corresponding change in the administratorship of this community. tree remains my co-moderator.
Also, I will be posting about the June Challenge soon, since somehow it is May already.
spiralsheepYou Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, edited by Katherine Harmon. This book contains many reproductions of idiosyncratic maps, although the details in some are frustratingly small. It also includes seven texts, mostly essays, on the theme of personal geographies. Recommended.
Extract from the essay "I, Mercator" by Stephen S. Hall:
Extract from the essay "I, Mercator" by Stephen S. Hall:
That was my first taste of orienteering – crashing through a landscape without paths, provisioned only with vague bearings and a distant destination. "Orienteering" is such an odd but impressive word that it has always stuck with me, and in fact moves me to propose a related concept to describe a process somewhat like orienteering but more personal, more historical, more associative, more metaphorical, perhaps more spiritual: "orientating," or crashing through the larger landscapes of memory and experience and knowledge, trying to get a fix on where we are in a multitude of landscapes that together compose the grander scheme of things. Orientating begins with geography, but it reflects a need of the conscious, self-aware organism for a kind of transcendent orientation that asks not just where am I, but where do I fit into this landscape? Where have I been? Where shall I go, and what values shall I pack for the trip? What culture of knowledge allows me to know what I know, which is often another way of knowing where I am? And what pattern, what grid of wisdom, can impose on my accumulated, idiosyncratic geographies? The coordinates marking this territory are unique to each individual and lend themselves to a very private kind of cartography.
June challenge posts
Jul. 11th, 2013 03:46 pmkakeJust a quick note that I will probably be doing the June Challenge roundup this Saturday (13 July), probably between around 2pm and 6pm UTC, so it would be helpful if you could get your reports in before then! As a reminder, any kind of report is fine — with or without pictures, individual post or a comment on the challenge announcement post. Thanks!
Update, 15 July: Apologies, I've been too busy flâneuring around London to do the roundup yet! I haven't forgotten, and will get to it as soon as I can.
June challenge
Jun. 20th, 2013 09:23 amkakeHello Flâneurs! We're just over halfway through the month and it's great to see all the challenge reports. There's just one thing... everything so far has been in the UK! So as an extra incentive, I will be offering a small extra surprise gift to the first person who posts a June 2013 challenge report from outside the UK.
I'll also note that in the three years of running the challenge, so far nobody has done subtheme I (b): "Get on the first bus that comes along (and that you're able to get onto). Stay on the bus until you reach the 10th stop or the end of the route, whichever comes first. Get off and navigate your way home by a method of your choice."
spiralsheepSo, we're nearly halfway through the June challenge 2013 and whether you're in or out this year there must be walks you'd like to do but can't for various reasons. So what's your ideal fantasy version of a June challenge walk? Which walk? Where? When? Who with? Any other details you want to share?
I'd like to get at least 7 flaneurs (or 7 teams) together at a bus stop in central Birmingham* and all do bus challenge I. c with each flaneur/team choosing a different number from 3 upwards.Or a beer glass walk around GCHQ for circular lolz.
* Or any large conurbation with cheap one-day all-zone bus passes.
I'd like to get at least 7 flaneurs (or 7 teams) together at a bus stop in central Birmingham* and all do bus challenge I. c with each flaneur/team choosing a different number from 3 upwards.
* Or any large conurbation with cheap one-day all-zone bus passes.
June challenge: 2013 version
May. 13th, 2013 09:08 amkakeIt's nearly June! Let's do the June challenge again.
Here are the themes: theme I: buses, theme II: lines, theme III: doing something different. Here are reports from previous years: I.(a), I.(c), I.(d), II.(a), II.(b), II.(c), II.(d), III.(a), III.(c), III.(d).
To complete the challenge, all you need to do is:
- Make an attempt during June 2013 to follow at least one set of instructions from at least one theme.
- Report back to the community, either via a complete trip report or simply by leaving a comment on this post stating what you did and how it went.
As before, various bits of flaneurs swag will be offered to everyone who completes the challenge. The more themes you try, the more swag you get.
Who's in?
Oh, look, it's June!
Jun. 3rd, 2012 06:23 pmkakeJust a small reminder that we're doing the June challenge again this year.
Here are the themes: theme I, theme II, theme III. To complete the challenge, all you need to do is make an attempt during June 2012 to follow at least one set of instructions from each theme, and then report back to the community, either via a complete trip report or simply by leaving a comment on this post stating what you did and how it went.
As last year, various bits of flaneurs swag will be offered to everyone who completes the challenge.
June challenge: 2012 version
May. 2nd, 2012 04:36 pmkakeHello flaneurs! It's June soon! Shall we do the June challenge again?
For simplicity's sake, I suggest we do the same themes as last year: theme I, theme II, theme III. Alternatively, if someone else would like to run this and make up three new themes, that's fine by me.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 16
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I'd like to participate in this in some way (whether by attempting the challenge or by cheering on those who do)
15 (93.8%)
I'm happy to use last year's themes again
7 (43.8%)
I'd prefer to use new themes
2 (12.5%)
I don't mind which themes we use
14 (87.5%)
I am volunteering to (a) write new themes for the challenge and (b) monitor comments to answer any questions about them
0 (0.0%)
I like ticking boxes
13 (81.2%)
The lesser-spotted Flâneurs admin
Nov. 17th, 2011 06:50 pmkakeHello lovely flaneurs! I just wanted to apologise for having been a bit absent recently. Things have been piling up, and I'm struggling to keep on top of them. I haven't forgotten about you all, and I haven't forgotten that I have prizes to send out to people who completed the September/October challenge. It just might take me a little while to find the time to get organised and do it.
I hope you understand, and I hope you don't mind too much that things have been a little quiet around here. (There's no need to worry about me, BTW — the things that have piled on me are good and fun and exciting things, there are just too many of them.)
I have been wondering if it would be good to have a co-admin for the community. It doesn't involve much work. Someone from the southern hemisphere would be ideal, since I'm in the north and it's a bit dark and grey here this time of year. But if you're interested, do let me know, even if you're also currently experiencing winter...
