Open Space - March 2027: Writing the Everyday: Body, Place, Time

This Open Space uses Jonathan Wyatt’s new book, Writing the Everyday: Body, Place, Time, as a prompt for thinking, talking, feeling, and writing. Writing the Everyday: Body, Place Time concerns the stories we tell of the familiar, the routine, and the mundane. It tells such stories to bring the everyday – a walk to work up a steep Edinburgh hill, writing in a favourite café, laughter, loss, rupture – alive. It tells these stories to explore how the everyday offers glimpses into the profound and the intimate, and it tells these stories to trouble the politics of the everyday. 

Jonathan will begin with talking about and reading from the book and then we will move into writing. 

Jonathan is professor of qualitative inquiry and a co-director of the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a CANI-NET veteran, having been involved in the network and its forbears since 2004.