There’s a rhythm to walking in nature, just like there is to writing about it – the stops and the starts, the forward, flowing motion of body and words, and the watchful, thoughtful pauses. I find spring especially inviting for walking: the lighter, brighter, milder days, the anticipation of migrant birds’ return giving way to
When Turcich was 17, a close friend of his died, and he had an existential crisis. He decided it was time to seize the day – and to cross the globe on foot Source: The man who walked around the world: Tom Turcich on his seven-year search for the meaning of life | Walking |
“A Gaga Guide to the Lower East Side” caters to history and music buffs, while examining the peculiarity of fame and its followers. Source: Explore NYC through Lady Gaga’s footsteps in a new immersive theatre tour – Gothamist
New research project led by the University of Glasgow’s Professor Dee Heddon explores experiences of walking and creativity during COVID-19. Take part in the survey and reveal what arty things you did out and about on your daily walks – your responses will be collated and shared through a Creative walking toolkit and developed at a Creative walking summit later in the year.
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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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