urban landscape
Highlights
Walk the Dial
Want to take better pictures? Then join our Walk the Dial Walkshop, a fun and informative way to brush up your digital photography skills, while getting out and about on foot. Check out the City – looking up and looking down – both in daylight and twilight – the buildings of the city draw the camera’s eye. Walk the
• In Love with Isabella
So, where are all those special places that touch our gentler souls, soften our hearts, enhance our romantic moments or just make us feel good? The Museum of Walking / Rethinking Cities Ltd are currently mapping romantic hotspots in cities across Europe, running an on-line Romantic Ribbons competition in which people recommend urban places and let
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Parks, Pleasure and Politics
A 90 – 120 minute walk with Travis Elborough an evocative and revealing exploration of Battersea Park, from it’s inception, it’s radical history, and how it has become a ‘jewel’ valued by local people as well as developers at the adjacent Embassy Gardens and Power station developments. Parks are such a familiar part of everyday life,
• Maps for listening
This project maps birdsong in Mar del Plata’s La Perla neighborhood by identifying “sound territories” associated with specific trees and urban structures. A foldable guide and onsite signposts direct listeners through these locations, while online recordings preserve the local avian soundscape as a heritage archive.
Musicity x Sculpture in the City
Musicity x Sculpture in the City has commissioned 11 tracks from various artists that explore the sonic landscape of key locations across the City of London, including Aldgate, Shoreditch, and Leadenhall Market. This project combines architecture, music, acoustic engineering, and virtual reality to create alternative auditory experiences of the urban environment.
Drowning Out the Noise: An Experiment in Sonic Ethnography
An eighteen channel sonic ethnographic installation consisting of binaural-recorded walking interviews about everyday music with queer individuals throughout their daily walking and traveling routines in their neighborhoods.
en route
en route is a pedestrian-based live art event that uses audio, mobile communication, and urban environments to guide participants through city streets and back-alleys. The experience combines narrative, sound, and participant observations to explore multiple perspectives on the city and personal perception.
From the center to independence, and back
From the center of São Paulo, I walk a circular route to the place in which independence was proclaimed. Like the royal rulers who set foot on Brazilian soil, I return to where I started, traveling through today's Brazil to reflect on its past.
• Walking pieces
Soundpaths: Moston & Harpurhey
Whether you’re looking to explore the neighbourhood, take a gentle stroll or go for an energetic run, Soundpaths will take you on a sonic journey through the parks and streets of Moston and Harpurhey via music and sound from a phone app. Feel your mood lift as GPS tracks where you are along the route,
Articles on WLC
The forgotten art of walking. Toward intra-active geography of an urban landscape
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.
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Center City urban watershed education walking tour to launch
The Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University, located on the Ben Franklin Parkway, has launched a new walking art exhibition on the importance of watersheds in urban landscapes. Source: Center City urban watershed education walking tour to launch
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One down, 39,136 to go: the explorers who walk every street in their city | Walking | The Guardian
You don’t really know an urban landscape until you’ve visited all of it on foot – from slums to beauty spots. Just ask the thousands of ‘every-single-streeters’ Source: One down, 39,136 to go: the explorers who walk every street in their city | Walking | The Guardian
• Articles elsewhere
Urban Landscapes in Motion: Join book launch August 27!
I am thrilled to be part of the book launch Design Research for Urban Landscapes featuring a keynote of Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette presenting his thoughts on “science on the move”, based on his extensiv research on Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859). The book can seen as a translation of Humboldt´s´s findings into contemporary design research. Design […]
A Wander is not a Slog 2018-05-20 04:10:58
On 12 May 2018 fifty-five people in fifteen countries on five continents explored the centres of their landscape.1 They walked alone and in groups; on short strolls and epic walks; in rural, urban and suburban landscapes; in familiar and unfamiliar places. Some walked during the day and others at night. Some never made it out of the […]
Inspiring first Walking Workshop in Munich
On May 16, 30 people from the North of Munich met 30 international landscape experts from “LeNotre Landscape Forum” and walked Munich´s open spaces together. I came up with a route and introduced a set of rules (to walk in silence, to keep ten steps distance…) to inspire an intense engagement with the urban landscape. […]
Events
Explore the Urban Forest
Discover London’s surprising and diverse canopy! Working with Paul Wood, author of London is a Forest (Quadrille, 2019) and London Street Trees (Safe Haven, 2017), Andrew Stuck from the Museum of Walking created a series of walkshops inviting participants to Explore the Urban Forest. According to a UN definition, 20% tree canopy gets you to forest status, and so London with
• Talking Townscape
A walk to mark the life and influence of Gordon Cullen, architect, illustrator and visual urbanist, born in August 1914. Writing in the Architectural Review, Gordon Cullen encapsulated the concept of visual coherence and organisation of our urban environment, under the theme of ‘townscape’. He wrote a seminal book with the title ‘Townscape’ published in 1961. Some have argued that
• Messages from the Rocks – Stories of the Invisible sound walk
This walk is led by audio artist Ernie Dulanowsky. Dulanowsky will guide participants through an urban landscape of sounds beyond human hearing generated by electronics, wildlife and insects. Using an array of homemade listening devices, Dulanowsky will make the back alleys and laneways of the Cathedral Village Neighbourhood and Les Sherman Park around the Art
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