THE LRM

Amongst other things I’m an anarcho-flaneuse, performance artist and part-time lecturer in Geography at The University of Liverpool.

In 2006 I founded the psychogeographical collective The LRM (Loiterers Resistance Movement). Since then I’ve developed a unique academic-activist-artistic praxis asserting that the streets should belong to everyone. My research interests include walking as a cultural, political, artistic and research tool, the importance of public space, access and equality and reimagining Manchester. I love The Handsome Family, Doctor Who, a pint of Guinness in a proper pub, gig going, cake decorating and perfecting my seitan.  I am actively involved in a number of campaigns to make Manchester a fairer, more equal and interesting place. Currently these include working with others to make the Peterloo memorial accessible for disabled people, ensure the Irwell river towpath and other footpaths remain open to the public and challenging various policies and other developments which criminalise homeless people, limit access to public space or privatise our streets.

I am currently also working as Co-Investigator on Walking Publics / Walking Art: Walking Wellbeing and Community During Covid-19. This research project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and is exploring the potential of the arts to sustain, encourage and more equitably support walking during and recovering from a pandemic. The multi disciplinary team is led by Professor Dee Heddon at the University of Glasgow. For more details please see walkcreate.gla.ac.uk

I welcome invitations for walks, talks, lectures, workshops or other interesting projects. I have performed, exhibited and shared my work widely, please get in touch if you want to find out more or have a chat. A list of performance walks and tours I have written can be found here under events

Selected Writing

If you can’t access any of these publications please email me mlrose@thelrm.org and I will  share my copy

2022

Understanding Walking and Creativity During Covid-19: Walking Publics / Walking Art Public Report with Dee Heddon, Clare Qualmann, Maggie O'Neill and Harry Wilson https://walkcreate.gla.ac.uk/walkcreate-report/

The Walkbook: Recipes for Walking and Wellbeing with Dee Heddon, Clare Qualmann, Maggie O'Neill and Harry Wilson https://walkcreate.gla.ac.uk/the-walkbook/

Stuck in the mud? Finding the glee in all fieldworking bodies Area 54:536–540

Fostering a Disconnect: How Verticality is Hindering Human Connection with Urban Spaces with Lorenza Casini
Sociological Review October 2022 online

Choosing Layers, Making Places with Lorenza Casini The Academy of Urbanism Here and Now https://journal.theaou.org/welcome/choosing-layers-making-places/

Catcalls and Cobbles: Gendered Limits of the Right to The City in Burgum S. and Higgins K (ed) 'How the Other Half Lives: Contrasting Experiences of Everyday Inequality'  Manchester University Press

Notes for The Low Drift (sleevenotes and online)
https://thelowdrift.com/writing/blog/a-letter-from-morag-rose

Walking is Democratic, We Must Preserve the Right of Way In The Planner RPTI October

Fragments / celebrating Micro-Climates NAWE magazine

2021
From an Aviatrix to a Eugenicist: Walking With Manchester’s Modernist Heroines (Morag Rose and The Modernist Heroines) in Gender Place and Culture DOI:  10.1080/0966369X.2021.1956436 

Walking Together, Alone During the Pandemic in Geography 106:2, 101-104, DOI: 10.1080/00167487.2021.1919414

A Partial Ornithological Treasury of Salford in You Belong Here Salford Art Gallery

2020
Access Denied? Disabled People and Walking Art in H. Billinghurst, C. Hind and P. Smith et al (ed) Walking Bodies Triarchy Press

Pedestrian Practices: Walking from the Mundane to the Marvellous in S.M. Hall and H. Holmes (ed) Mundane Methods Manchester University Press

Whose City? In Red Pepper #229 August ‘No return to normal’
UnManchester: A Warning to Soul Seekers Shock City 1: Authenticity

Spirit, Canal, Place in P. Dobraszcyzk and S. Butler (eds) Manchester Something Rich and Strange Manchester University Press

"I am not a Sat Nav": Affective Place-Making, Community Action and the Ginnel That Roared in C. Courage and L. Platt (ed) The Routledge Handbook of Place-Making Routledge

Psychogeography and Urban Exploration with Jane Samuels in N. von Benzon, M. Holton, C. Wilkinson and S. Wilkinson (eds) Creative Methods for Human Geographers Sage
 

2019
There’s Something in The Water! A Psychogeographical Exploration of Manchester’s Waterways in K. Bell (ed) Supernatural Cities Boydell and Brewer

Loitering, Resisting, Moving in C. Rose (ed) Psychogeography and Psychotherapy: PCCS Books

 Pedestrian Provocations: Manifesting an Accessible Future, with Blake Morris  in Global Performance Studies 2.2.

The PSPO Who is Manchester For? Greater Manchester Housing Action blog http://www.gmhousingaction.com/the-pspo-who-is-manchester-for/

2018
Women Walking Manchester: Desire Lines Through The Original Modern City (Phd thesis, University of Sheffied)

2017
Buzzing, Bimbling, Beating Our Bounds: Walking A Line Through Manchester in LivingMaps Review 3 

2015
Confessions of an Anarcho-Flâneuse or Psychogeography The Mancunian Way in Walking Inside Out ed. Tina Richardson Rowman and Littlefield International

Listen: 

I am delighted to contribute to the following, thanks to everyone who made them happen especially Jo Norcup

The Art of Now: Women Who Walk https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000nmn

Geography Workshop Presents ‘Er Outdoors https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/her-outdoors-14-april-2016/