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2022 Walks – T100 Festival

Taking place from the 2 – 25 June, T100 People will feature a series of events, walks, talks and community celebrations along the Thames Estuary, including the return of The Thank You Dance to Thurrock. The Thank You Dance is a section of The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant created by Kinetika and featuring local key

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Art – Kolkata woman takes lessons from 70-day walk for design – Telegraph India

The journey, spanning 1,700km and six states, saw Gita Balakrishnan tread swathes of mainland India in searing summer heat Source: Art – Kolkata woman takes lessons from 70-day walk for design – Telegraph India

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A Walk in Thoreau’s Shoes – The Provincetown Independent

Beginning in the Cape’s dunes, Ben Shattuck’s Six Walks is a meditation on nature in Henry David Thoreau’s footsteps. Desperate to escape recurring nightmares, Shattuck turns Thoreau’s Cape Cod into […] Source: A Walk in Thoreau’s Shoes – The Provincetown Independent

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Oliver Jeffers shrinks the solar system down to a 10km walking trail

The writer and artist explains his ambitious project to humanise our experience of the universe Source: Oliver Jeffers shrinks the solar system down to a 10km walking trail

Urban Auscultation

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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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