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Black Country Peregrinations

R. M. Francis

R. M. Francis

 
CC-BY-NC: Being Human Festival
Black Country Peregrinations – Being human
Black Country Peregrinations – Being human

Writers R. M. Francis and Kerry Hadley-Pryce will lead participants through Saltwells Nature Reserve, a site of industrial and geological heritage, on a walking writing retreat exploring the earth sciences, psychogeography, environmental psychology and embodied wayfinding and creative practices.

Participants will be invited to reflect on the cultural currents of the region, their awareness of localities and the “palimpsest” of place, exploring the crossing points between the arts, earth sciences and the body, movement and the senses.

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2023-11-12 10:00
2023-11-12 10:00
2023-11-12 10:00
Hosted by: Being Human Festival / University of Wolverhampton
Saltwells Lane, Brierley Hill DY5 1AX, UK

Culture

Collection · 39 items

geology

Collection · 7 items

heritage

5 sub-collections · 92 items

Nature

1 sub-collections · 164 items

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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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