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Globetrotting in the company of Duncan Minshull

2024-10-22 18:00
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A Walking Writer's Salon with Duncan Minshull. In his new book, Duncan Minshull, the UK’s ‘laureate of walking’, brings together the recorded footfalls of over fifty walker-writers who have travelled somewhere across the world’s seven continents.

Curated news 23 Apr, 2023

Cairo’s ‘iftours’ offer a new way to experience food and art during Ramadan

Qahrawya’s tours give Egyptians and foreigners a local, off-the-beaten-track cultural tour Source: Cairo’s ‘iftours’ offer a new way to experience food and art during Ramadan

Curated news 19 Jan, 2023

A walking tour of Old Cairo’s Sultan Qalawun complex – in pictures

Art shops, camera repair outlets and shisha pipe sellers on the streets of Egyptian capital’s historic quarter Source: A walking tour of Old Cairo’s Sultan Qalawun complex – in pictures

Curated news 01 Dec, 2021

A Walk Through Downtown Cairo’s Timeless Architecture

With iconic architecture, dramatic facades and delicate balconies, the buildings of Downtown Cairo are rich in history, with stories that reflect the city’s cosmopolitan nature. Source: A Walk Through Downtown Cairo’s Timeless Architecture

Curated news 25 Nov, 2021

Walking the street of happiness – Features – Al-Ahram Weekly – Ahram Online

Mai Samih takes a stroll along Darb Al-Barabra in Historic Cairo and talks to local shop owners about the ups and downs of business Source: Walking the street of happiness – Features – Al-Ahram Weekly – Ahram Online

Curated news 10 Dec, 2019

‘I feel I’m walking in Paris’: the revolutionary art of Tahrir Square | Rudaw.net

Protesters and artists have turned the walls of the tunnel in Tahrir Square into a mosaic of revolutionary paintings Source: ‘I feel I’m walking in Paris’: the revolutionary art of Tahrir Square | Rudaw.net

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Press Release: Improving the walkability of stations to make Cairo a more healthy and sustainable city

A new report on pedestrian safety, comfort and accessibility, published today - Transport Day at COP28 - highlights a quick and affordable win for the city of Cairo, Egypt to increase public transit ridership, reduce transport emissions, and improve the health and sustainability of the city. The post Press Release: Improving the walkability of stations to make Cairo a more healthy and sustainable city appeared first on Walk21.

Bronwen Thornton

GPS, geo-poetic system

Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).

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