CHARLIE LEE-POTTER – ‘Each thudding footstep feels hypnotic and I keep my eyes on the ground as I try to think my ideas into existence.’
Source: Eyes Down: Walking as Thinking
The idea is to deepen our knowledge of landscape as a sphere of movement. The need to conduct research on urban walking emerges from the mechanics of so-called “sensory motor amnesia”, an unaware process of memory loss of how certain groups of muscles feel and how to control them. Source: The forgotten art of walking.
In this piece Abbi Flint (Newcastle University), Rebecca Lovell (University of Exeter) and Sonia Overall (Canterbury Christ Church University) reflect on the range of formal and informal signs seen along rights of way and what these might convey, in terms of both meaning and affect, to those who encounter them. Source: Reading the signs —
CHARLIE LEE-POTTER – ‘Each thudding footstep feels hypnotic and I keep my eyes on the ground as I try to think my ideas into existence.’
Source: Eyes Down: Walking as Thinking
driftsinging
Drawing with (vocal) sound in response to place while passing through place. Driftsinging borrows from the Situationist Drift, and Baudelaire’s flâneur. Driftsinging also relates to the process of ‘sounding,’ the sonic measuring of distance and depth that locates position in place and ‘echo location’, the examination of place through sonic reflection and refraction, resonance and echo.
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