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From Streets to Screens: Resisting the Commercialisation of Movement

From Streets to Screens: Resisting the Commercialisation of Movement
I had the pleasure of presenting at WALKING – Thinking in Motion, “A transdisciplinary symposium on walking as an artistic practice, spatial experience, and epistemic method in the spirit of Lucius Burckhardt”, by the Swiss Institute for Land and Environmental Art.  Being based in Brazil, I couldn’t justify the time or cost to hop across …

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BabakFakhamzadeh.com

Personal website of Babak Fakhamzadeh. Babak Fakhamzadeh is a creative technologist, digital artist, and researcher whose work focuses on location-based storytelling, walking art, and participatory media. With a background in mathematics and decades of experience in web and mobile development, he has worked internationally with NGOs, media organisations, and cultural institutions to build digital tools that connect people with place, history, and public space. His projects often combine technology, urban exploration, and narrative, using mobile media and interactive platforms to encourage people to engage with their surroundings in new ways. He is a co-founder of the global walking-arts platform walk · listen · create. Fakhamzadeh is also the creator and maintainer of the Dérive app, a mobile tool that encourages exploratory urban walking inspired by psychogeography. Across his artistic and technical work, he explores how digital tools can reshape how people experience cities, uncover hidden histories, and reclaim agency in navigating the urban environment.
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soak

To walk slowly and heavily along, as in “I must soak home and get a bite to eat.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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