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Walking in Wonder

The website WalkingInWonderHCFM documents a radio project centered on exploring urban and natural landscapes through the medium of walking. It features a series of audio walks broadcast on Hackney Community FM, where hosts guide listeners through different routes, using soundscapes, interviews, and storytelling to reveal layered histories, cultural practices, and ecological features of the areas. The project situates walking as both a mode of experiential knowledge and an artistic practice, highlighting the interplay between movement, place, and memory within the London borough of Hackney.

Complementing the audio material, the site includes contextual information about the walks, such as route maps, accompanying texts, and artist backgrounds that deepen understanding of the cultural geography involved. It reflects an interdisciplinary approach to urban exploration, emphasizing participatory and sensory engagement with environments typically overlooked in everyday transit. Through its focused locale and community-oriented perspective, the project contributes to the broader field of walking art by merging radio documentary techniques with spatial narratives.

Interviews

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London

5 sub-collections · 161 items
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soundscapes

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spatiality

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Dallas Simpson

Dallas Simpson has spent over 20 years involved with recording and performing binaural soundworks. The subject of each recording varies from natural surroundings, to artificial environments. In addition to recording these soundscapes, Dallas Simpson has also performed live. A number of samples of his work are available for download from this site. Dallas is a professional CD Mastering Engineer trading under the name dallas MASTERS.

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Ann Rutherford

Subterranean - These sketch book drawings and soundscapes are part of a larger project to explore the dark underground through sensory experience.

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Parkland Sound Walk

Connecting community to green space in our urban environments.

Cecilia Tyrrell
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Walk to the United States of America

See London from a new perspective, viewed from its many parks and green spaces.

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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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