Amongst other things I’m an anarcho-flaneuse, walking 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. At the moment these include working with others to fight the introduction of a PSPO (Public Space Protection Order) that will criminalise homeless people, making the Peterloo memorial accessible for disabled people and ensuring the Irwell river towpath remains open to the public.
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
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
In Press:
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
Catcalls and Cobbles: Gendered Limits of the Right to the City in K.Higgins and S.Burgum (ed) Peaks and Troughs Manchester University Press
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
Morris, B. and M. Rose Pedestrian Provocations: Manifesting an Accessible Future, 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/