Mobilizing Landscape Pedagogies. Enskillment and Frictions in Informal Educational Practices

This article offers a perspective on how mobilities and landscape intertwine outside the academic debate, in the context of learning practices concerned with landscape, sustainability, and citizenship education. The article is based on the analysis of two personal research-action experiences conducted in Italy from 2017 onward in two different contexts: school education and informal education. The first experience concerns a project on promoting sustainable mobility that involved secondary school students, while the second addresses the informal learning activities of urban walking groups. These different experiences are connected and analyzed by adopting the notions of enskillment and friction as interpretive tools to help trace some of the multiple and unpredictable ways in which movement interacts with landscape in pedagogical contexts.