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Smart cities – smarter citizens?

Bayes Business School, City University, London
2016-04-21 09:00
Cutty Sark Station, London, UK

Experiments in mobile Co-Design: A walkshop in Greenwich  Facilitated by Dr Sara Jones, Senior Lecturer, Creative Interactive System Design at Bayes Business School, City University and Andrew Stuck, Founding Director of Rethinking Cities and the Museum of Walking. The plan was to share knowledge and generate ideas for apps that can help us understand more about the neighbourhoods, places,

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How a Human-Centered Approach to Art and Emotions Reimagines the Museum Experience.

In the May meeting of Museum Mindshare, our community gathered to share creative engagement projects that we were proud to have created for museum audiences. You can read a summary of major themes we discussed here. This month, we will feature short re...

Henna Wang
Stories by Henna Wang on Medium

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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