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Philip Cowell

Philip Cowell

 

Street Wisdom is an everyday creative practice you use as you walk. A smart fusion of mindfulness, neuroscience and wellness, it unlocks our minds and unblocks our creativity with every step. A social enterprise, offering free WalkShops online and on city streets all over the world.

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Esercizio Pratico di Meraviglia e Sorpresa

This sound walk, called “Practical Exercise Of Wonder And Surprise – Silence And Listening,” invites people to slow down and really tune in to the sensory world around them.

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An intimate walk through her childhood and its messy, burgeoning queerness, local author Clare Johnson shares stories of herself, those she has known, and also reflects on the many whose lives are left unwritten on the landscape.

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walking in circles

The website "walking-peace.blogspot.com" serves as a dedicated blog exploring the concept and practice of walking as a form of peace-building and contemplative engagement. It features posts that document various walking projects, events, and personal reflections aiming to connect movement through landscape with themes of nonviolence, mindfulness, and cultural understanding. The content includes detailed accounts of walks undertaken in different geographic and social contexts, highlighting how walking functions as a tool for fostering dialogue, community engagement, and awareness of social and environmental issues. The blog also presents scholarly and artistic perspectives on walking, integrating ideas from peace studies, cultural geography, and walking art. It references historical and contemporary figures associated with walking and peace activism, and discusses methodologies that emphasize walking as an embodied practice for social change. The site is structured to provide both narrative and analytical insights, often accompanied by photographs and maps that contextualize the walks within specific landscapes and communities.

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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