The immersive multimedia installation ‘Walking Through a Songline’ in New Delhi, organized by the Australian High Commission and KNMA, showcases Source: Walking Through a Songline Highlights Australia’s Indigenous Heritage – The Sunday Guardian Live
New to the idea of Jane’s Walks? They’re a celebration of neighborhoods and cities, often from the point of view of everyday people, in honor of legendary urban thinker Jane Jacobs. Source: Practical Ways Public Art Can Strengthen Your Community – The Good Men Project
Ken Johnston, who walked 165 miles in NJ earlier this year to honor Harriet Tubman, started a second walk on Thursday — this time a 450-mile trek from Harlem to Canada.
Source: Philly’s ‘Walking Artist’ embarks 450-mile trek to honor Harriet Tubman
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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