Country: Spain – City: Granada – Address: Spain, Granada, Plaza de la Trinidad

Tracing Granada’s Urban Footprints

Description:

Tracing Granada’s Urban Footprints is an interactive urban walk through Granada’s historic centre designed to reveal the hidden processes shaping the city. The activity begins with a short guided route introducing key concepts from Human Geography—tourism dynamics, commercial change, public space regulation, mobility patterns, heritage transformation, and socio-spatial tensions—using direct field observation as the main analytical tool.

In the second phase, participants work in small teams to complete analytical challenges based on the prior explanation and the interpretation of a field notebook containing photographs, maps, and guiding questions. Rather than searching for a physical “treasure,” teams are invited to connect concepts with evidence in order to build a coherent interpretation of the area’s urban evolution. By analysing spatial clues and documented observations, participants progressively construct a reasoned final answer about the processes shaping Granada’s historic centre.

The event concludes with a brief collective discussion highlighting how geographers observe, analyse, and transform field evidence into structured explanations of urban change. Open, free, and highly participatory, the activity aims to engage high-school students, university newcomers, and the general public in experiencing geography as a practical and socially relevant discipline.

Main objectives:

The event aims to introduce participants to Human Geography as a research-based discipline that interprets urban change through field observation and spatial analysis. It seeks to foster critical spatial thinking by connecting theoretical concepts with direct evidence from Granada’s historic centre, using simple but rigorous field methods. Through collaborative interpretation, the activity promotes active learning, enhances public understanding of contemporary urban challenges, and highlights the role of geographical research in analysing and informing urban transformation.

Event language: Spanish

The event will be: Only in presence

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Reference person: Hugo Castro Noblejas – Role or function: Assistant Professor – Reference organization: Human Geography Department, University of Granada

Those who organize are: Academics

Estimated starting time (local time): 5:30:00 PM

Expected duration: the whole evening

Event program: it will be displayed here as soon as possible

GeoNight code: 2026187