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The Walking Man
A trip around the block, narrated by the light-up Walking Man. You will start on the corner of the street outside of Southwest Barbecue and follow his instructions on where to go. The Walking Man will point out some things along the way, give some history, and encourage you to enjoy the natural story of
Walking Arts as Movement, Relation, and Utopia – the Milena Principle, Made of Walking, and walking as the 21st-Century Commons
Introducing the new WALC partner The Milena Principle: a nomadic artistic platform that understands walking as movement, relation, and utopia. Through Made of Walking, it cultivates walking as a commons: collective, ecological, ethical, and performative. Rooted in Renaissance humanism and Spaziergangwissenschaft, its practices dissolve boundaries between art and life, foregrounding care, encounter, migration, and shared imagination across places, species, and communities and futures together.
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What might be considered the research output of a walking practice? An important caveat to this would be to ask where and when the research occurs in relation to the walk, the walking, and the walkers. Does the walk activate our senses, or do our senses demand that we walk? Since walking involves encounters with various objects and subjects, how might it help us emphasise our connection to the more-than-human world? In addition, walking reveals different entry points to a city. Could walking provide a path toward more socially just urban spaces and commons? With an introduction by design critic and educator Alice Twemlow and urbanist and researcher Tânia A. Cardoso. Published in collaboration with Soapbox Journal.
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