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Walkscapes | University of Groningen Summer Schools | University of Groningen

Source: Walkscapes | University of Groningen Summer Schools | University of Groningen

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14 Wonderful Old Words for Walking We Should Bring Back | Mental Floss

Now that spring is here, no matter how committed you are to cars, it’s hard to resist an occasional mosey or stroll. Source: 14 Wonderful Old Words for Walking We Should Bring Back | Mental Floss

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Cornwall’s very own Camino: walking the St Michael’s Way | Walking holidays | The Guardian

Accessing the healing power of ancient walking routes needn’t mean weeks of walking, or even going abroad: a 14-mile route in Cornwall proves just as magical Source: Cornwall’s very own Camino: walking the St Michael’s Way | Walking holidays | The Guardian

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‘I strolled among lovely Lent lilies, wild garlic and beautiful bluebells’: readers’ favourite spring walks in the UK | Walking holidays | The Guardian

From a hike under huge Suffolk skies to aspen glades in the Cairngorms, our tipsters lead the way on these spring strolls Source: ‘I strolled among lovely Lent lilies, wild garlic and beautiful bluebells’: readers’ favourite spring walks in the UK | Walking holidays | The Guardian

Curated news 3 Apr, 2022

Caminhografia Urbana

An inspiring new 3 year long art and research project in Brazil “Caminhografia Urbana” – walking and writing the city.

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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