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Practice the art of psychogeography with Cape Town Heritage Tours

Source: Practice the art of psychogeography with Cape Town Heritage Tours

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Why the pedestrian dignity movement should be your next accessibility cause

Decenter cars and recenter humans, says the person behind a viral TikTok account. Source: Why the pedestrian dignity movement should be your next accessibility cause

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Miami Is Opening a 10-mile Walking Path With Native Plants, Public Art, and Thousands of Butterflies | Travel + Leisure

Meet Miami’s take on New York’s High Line. Source: Miami Is Opening a 10-mile Walking Path With Native Plants, Public Art, and Thousands of Butterflies | Travel + Leisure

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History buff Ken Johnston ‘Walking for Freedom’ in the footsteps of Harriet Tubman – TheGrio

Johnston and Deborah Price, who has recently joined him, encourage other supporters to find them on their journey of retracing history. Source: History buff Ken Johnston ‘Walking for Freedom’ in the footsteps of Harriet Tubman – TheGrio

Word-Object Exchange | Walking Arts and open call 

You are invited to submit word-oject anti-signs for placement along inspirallondon Trail – for works transformed into small objects (up to 10 characters) you can recieve £25; for works transformed into medium objects you can recieve £35 (11 to 25 characters); for works transformed into large objects (26-35 characters) you can recieve £50-60. Word-Objects anti-signs should be short, pithy, and in spirit of dada, adopt attitudes of multi-lingual, de-centering, cross meaning messaging. Submission above 35 characters will only be considered on the rare occassion that they are so ridiculous and meaningfilled that they require hatcheting down and re-interpreting.

The aim is to produce an average of one anti-sign per day during lockdown – at the current projection at least 84 word-object signs until the trail and life is re-opened. There are no terms apart from the themes outlined but you should be aware that this is an antidote exchange project.

Source: Word-Object Exchange | Culture/Art DeCentreDer Space: in an Other Capital of Culture

Submitted by: Geert Vermeire

pedestrian acts

By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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