America’s Love-Hate Relationship to Wilderness
In 2002, PBS produced a six-part reality show called Frontier House, in which 3 families are whisked back to 1883 Montana to live like...
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Danielle Foushée
- Aug 31, 2021
- 2 min
A Scene from Vietnam
Pasts 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...
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Danielle Foushée
- Jul 6, 2021
- 22 min
Creating 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...
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Danielle Foushée
- May 30, 2021
- 14 min
Spot Crooks By Their Ears & Other Tall Tales
European colonialism is one of the most recent examples of imperialism — one in a long line of empires throughout human history. All the...
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Danielle Foushée
- May 27, 2021
- 7 min
Justice Counts on All of Us
Justice Counts on All of Us
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Danielle Foushée
- May 25, 2021
- 5 min
Science, Knowledge, & Power
Today, I went down a Foucaultian rabbit hole. Foucault's work has been mentioned repeatedly in the work of travel writing critics (and...
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Danielle Foushée
- May 25, 2021
- 3 min
Firescape & Nectar
He 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
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Danielle Foushée
- May 23, 2021
- 9 min
Women’s Travel is Women’s Freedom
Ideological frameworks are all around us, influencing us, and determining the ways in which we move around in the world. According to...
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Danielle Foushée
- May 22, 2021
- 5 min
Road Trips, Public Art, and Storytelling
Not too long ago, I embarked on a 12,000-mile road trip throughout the western United States. The goal — to see as much publicly...
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Danielle Foushée
- May 18, 2021
- 5 min
Domination Isn’t Destiny
Texts, or discourses, according to cultural critic David Spurr (1993), tell stories that justify and allow colonization to become...
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Danielle Foushée
- May 17, 2021
- 3 min
Mazatzal: Place of the Deer
Ten artists from across the country meet for the first time at the Deer Creek trailhead for a weeklong wilderness retreat. It’s important...
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Danielle Foushée
- May 16, 2021
- 4 min
Ethics of Phoenix Mural Project
As founder and director of Phoenix Mural Project I’m engaged in lots of different kinds of communities within the city: property...
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Danielle Foushée
- May 16, 2021
- 3 min
Timelines & Discoveries
I’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...
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Danielle Foushée
- May 15, 2021
- 7 min
Bonding Over Food (Sometimes)
The Menu Travel and travel writing are sometimes narrowly defined, especially in the context of bookstore genres. Entire shelves full of...
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Danielle Foushée
- May 9, 2021
- 1 min
Contact Zones: Travel Write Where You Are
ABOUT ME: Danielle Foushée is author, designer, public artist, and professor at Arizona State University. She founded and directs Phoenix...
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Danielle Foushée
- Jan 5, 2021
- 19 min
Two Days in Phoenix: A City of Contrasts
I depart from Seattle on a grey and misty day in November 2015, headed to Phoenix, Arizona.[1] I’ve never visited Phoenix before, and...
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Danielle Foushée
- Aug 25, 2020
- 2 min
I 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...
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Danielle Foushée
- Aug 20, 2020
- 3 min
A Neighbor’s Scorn
The 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...
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Danielle Foushée
- Aug 7, 2020
- 3 min
The ‘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
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Danielle Foushée
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min
Housebound
According to the U.S. Postal Service, the first private mail receptacles came into use in 1896. They were a hodgepodge of whatever usable it
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Danielle Foushée
- Dec 30, 2019
- 20 min
Street Art Hunting: Instagram & the Gamification of Creative Placemaking
Published 2019: User Experience & Urban Creativity Scientific Journal, open access 1. Introduction I move around a lot, so I know well...
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Danielle Foushée
- Apr 27, 2019
- 4 min
Don’t Be a Jerk When Your Friend Has Cancer
Six practical tips from a cancer patient on how to be a true friend.
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Danielle Foushée
- Jan 20, 2012
- 4 min
From Passion to Peace with Sankalpa Practice
One of the eight limbs of yoga according to Patanjali is called “niyama.” The niyamas include the following of five observances: purity,...
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