Danielle FoushéeJan 235 minAmerica’s Love-Hate Relationship to WildernessIn 2002, PBS produced a six-part reality show called Frontier House, in which 3 families are whisked back to 1883 Montana to live like...
Danielle FoushéeAug 31, 20212 minA Scene from VietnamPasts and futures are braided together with maps. There are as many types of maps as there are stories, and perhaps my story will come in...
Danielle FoushéeJul 6, 202122 minCreating through Crisis: First Things First, Revisited (Again)Peer reviewed and accepted in AIGA Design Educators Community Summit Proceedings: "SHIFT 2020" Since the 1964 publication of the original...
Danielle FoushéeMay 30, 202114 minSpot Crooks By Their Ears & Other Tall TalesEuropean colonialism is one of the most recent examples of imperialism — one in a long line of empires throughout human history. All the...
Danielle FoushéeMay 26, 20215 minScience, Knowledge, & PowerToday, I went down a Foucaultian rabbit hole. Foucault's work has been mentioned repeatedly in the work of travel writing critics (and...
Danielle FoushéeMay 25, 20213 minFirescape & NectarHe sees me, and hovers in front of my face for a moment. Eye contact. Understanding. We’re drunk on our senses, on desire — looking for some
Danielle FoushéeMay 23, 20219 minWomen’s Travel is Women’s FreedomIdeological frameworks are all around us, influencing us, and determining the ways in which we move around in the world. According to...
Danielle FoushéeMay 22, 20215 minRoad Trips, Public Art, and StorytellingNot too long ago, I embarked on a 12,000-mile road trip throughout the western United States. The goal — to see as much publicly...
Danielle FoushéeMay 19, 20215 minDomination Isn’t DestinyTexts, or discourses, according to cultural critic David Spurr (1993), tell stories that justify and allow colonization to become...
Danielle FoushéeMay 18, 20213 minMazatzal: Place of the DeerTen artists from across the country meet for the first time at the Deer Creek trailhead for a weeklong wilderness retreat. It’s important...
Danielle FoushéeMay 17, 20214 minEthics of Phoenix Mural ProjectAs founder and director of Phoenix Mural Project I’m engaged in lots of different kinds of communities within the city: property...
Danielle FoushéeMay 16, 20213 minTimelines & DiscoveriesI’ve always loved maps. As a kid, I would spin the globe in our living room as fast as I could. With a jab, I’d poke my finger out to...
Danielle FoushéeMay 15, 20217 minBonding Over Food (Sometimes)The Menu Travel and travel writing are sometimes narrowly defined, especially in the context of bookstore genres. Entire shelves full of...
Danielle FoushéeMay 9, 20211 minContact Zones: Travel Write Where You AreABOUT ME: Danielle Foushée is author, designer, public artist, and professor at Arizona State University. She founded and directs Phoenix...
Danielle FoushéeJan 5, 202119 minTwo Days in Phoenix: A City of ContrastsI depart from Seattle on a grey and misty day in November 2015, headed to Phoenix, Arizona.[1] I’ve never visited Phoenix before, and...
Danielle FoushéeAug 25, 20202 minI Forgot...Where I left my keys To put the wet clothes in the dryer To feed the dogs What temperature to set the oven To check the mail To show up...
Danielle FoushéeAug 20, 20203 minA Neighbor’s ScornThe sun’s rays barely peeked over Sheep Hill this morning and I was already fired up. I walk a lot — every day at least two miles, often...
Danielle FoushéeAug 7, 20203 minThe ‘Real’ Phoenix: Oak Street Alley If you want a more authentic experience of Phoenix’s street art culture, you have to visit the grass-roots mural project in Oak Street Alle
Danielle FoushéeMay 30, 20203 minHouseboundAccording to the U.S. Postal Service, the first private mail receptacles came into use in 1896. They were a hodgepodge of whatever usable it
Danielle FoushéeDec 31, 201920 minStreet Art Hunting: Instagram & the Gamification of Creative PlacemakingPublished 2019: User Experience & Urban Creativity Scientific Journal, open access 1. Introduction I move around a lot, so I know well...
Danielle FoushéeApr 27, 20194 minDon’t Be a Jerk When Your Friend Has CancerSix practical tips from a cancer patient on how to be a true friend.
Danielle FoushéeJan 20, 20124 minFrom Passion to Peace with Sankalpa PracticeOne of the eight limbs of yoga according to Patanjali is called “niyama.” The niyamas include the following of five observances: purity,...