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Eurovision 2023 immersive walking tour of Liverpool City Centre – Liverpool Echo

The powerful Ukrainian inspired stories can be found at locations throughout Liverpool Source: Eurovision 2023 immersive walking tour of Liverpool City Centre – Liverpool Echo

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Waterford News & Star — Street Art Links launch vibrant new walking tour | Waterford News & Star

Street Art Links launched their first Maritime Walking Tours outside the Marina Hotel last Saturday.Titled ‘Floating Tours’, the programme offers visitors a walking tour that showed off the beautiful, vibrant street art of Waterford.Onlookers were treated to an immersive audio-visual exp Source: Waterford News & Star — Street Art Links launch vibrant new walking tour

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ArtDependence | Anniversary Edition of Rijksmuseum Gardens Exhibition Celebrates Work of Richard Long

Richard Long in the Rijksmuseum Gardens is the 10th edition in this series of free outdoor sculpture exhibitions. The previous exhibitions in the Rijksmuseum Gardens were devoted to the work of Henry Moore (2013), Alexander Calder (2014), Joan Miró (2015), Giuseppe Penone (2016), Jean Dubuffet (2017), Eduardo Chillida (2018), Louise Bourgeois (2019), Ellsworth Kelly (2021)

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Dublin can be heaven with new soundtrack app for visitors to St Stephen’s Green – The Irish Times

Dublin’s city centre park joins Central Park and Regent’s Park in having a specially tailored Soundwalk composition designed to enhance the visitor experience Source: Dublin can be heaven with new soundtrack app for visitors to St Stephen’s Green – The Irish Times

Curated news 9 May, 2021

Walking Tour: The Cool, Old, and Beautiful Clocks of Downtown Crossing

Time yourself to see how long it takes.

Source: Walking Tour: The Cool, Old, and Beautiful Clocks of Downtown Crossing

Submitted by: Babak Fakhamzadeh

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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