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Philippe Petit to perform at New York’s St. John the Divine on 50th anniversary of wire-walk between Twin Towers – Episcopal News Service

[Episcopal News Service] Fifty years ago, on the morning of Aug. 7, 1974, Philippe Petit, a French highwire artist, made history when he wire-walked on a 131-foot cable, 1,350 feet above the ground… Source: Philippe Petit to perform at New York’s St. John the Divine on 50th anniversary of wire-walk between Twin Towers – Episcopal

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Make Ways

Make Ways is our new pilot citizen project to highlight good paths, bad paths and where new or better ways are needed. Source: Make Ways

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Smell walks | Wyndham City

Source: Smell walks | Wyndham City

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Marina Abramović to Revisit Great Wall Walk in Shanghai | News | Ocula

Modern Art Museum will present the legendary performance artist’s first museum show in China from October, including images of the walk and brand new works. Source: Marina Abramović to Revisit Great Wall Walk in Shanghai | News | Ocula

Underground Amman Tour offers glimpse into city’s hidden art scene | Jordan Times

AMMAN — Underground Amman Tour, a weekly walk held on Fridays, provides a broader perspective of the ancient city Amman, by exploring the often hidden art scene in the heart downtown. “We aim to link ancient neighbourhoods in Amman with street art,” Ala’ El Deen Arafeh, founder of the initiative, told The Jordan Times on Saturday. Tourists get a sense of the achievements of Amman’s artists through graffiti painted on ancient buildings, said Arafeh. “Around 70 per cent of Amman’s street artists are females,” Arafeh highlighted.

Source: Underground Amman Tour offers glimpse into city’s hidden art scene | Jordan Times

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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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