Abstract

When the world’s media is focused on a particular site, whether for political, humanitarian, or other major event reason, how do we explore, wander and report our experiences of being in place, being in ‘that place’?
At a time when a ‘place’s’ identity is dominated by news reports and the press, can one visit or appear differently? How does one be a ‘tourist’? Should one be a tourist? I suggest that we use processes of ‘rapport’ to reinterpret and reconsider our environments and our relationships with ‘place’ and ‘space’. In this epoch of displacement we will consider why it is necessary for a new term to explain the actions of what in the past we have called 'reportage', 'flaneur' 'tourist', 'detournement' and 'voyeur'.
In this presentation we will explore how ‘rapport’ can be articulated as a 'raport', and we will consider how the processes of a 'raporter' can relate to, connect with, and impact ideas of practice-as-research.