From Paris to Lisbon
Next week, October 14, the annual Walk21 conference kicks off, this year in Lisbon. Since 1999, Walk21 wants to make sure that walking is measured, valued and appropriately provided for so that everyone in the world can choose to walk and enjoy the experience.
The program is packed, and though there's a heavy slant towards urban design, there's a lot of attention for the public's interaction with the built environment, including through hands-on workshops that take participants to the streets of Lisbon.
I'll not only attend Walk21, I'm also hosting a workshop, along Situationist lines. Perhaps see you there?
Meanwhile, last week, I spent some time in Paris, where memories of this year's olympics are slowly fading. Myself living in Brazil, the cost of many everyday expenses were painfully expensive, though walking in Paris is still pleasant, and free, and drifting through the city, is perhaps the most fitting hommage to the town's Situationist legacy.
But, it made me realise how little of today's Paris actively looks back to its Letterist and Situationist past. Yes, we were staying close to Debord's house on Rue du Bac, where you can appreciate the building's facade, but there's nothing there that identifies the former presence of the author of the Society of the Spectacle. Paris is full of places that, in one way or another, once played an important role in Situationist history, and require imagination to place them in context.
Then again, this ephemerality is perhaps only fitting.
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