Creative Geographers

Geography speaks about people shaping places and places shaping people

This blog brings together the results of my various teaching experiences in Switzerland and Italy, with social science and geography students at university taking classes in geography.


  • Mosaic 2024
    Our mosaic kept growing, as students shared their visions and experience of their lives in the island of Sardinia. For these first-year students, being asked to draw geographical imaginaries did not come… Read more: Mosaic 2024
  • Adding layers of experience
    In Spring 2024, I return as Visiting Professor to the Università degli Studi di Cagliari, with a fresh intake of students. We will continue to build the geographical mosaic together, adding more… Read more: Adding layers of experience
  • Island life
    Sardinia Our urban mosaic stretches out beyond Cagliari, as my students tell me about their wider lifeworlds, spaces and places that are meaningful to them. The Sardinia of the inside, made up… Read more: Island life