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Build Hollywood: Walk – city moves

Build Hollywood Walk Five

The fifth walk with Alisa Oleva in October will be an invitation to move with the city and let the city move you. How do you move in the city? How does the city move you? What are the desired paths you make in it? What are the urban choreographies of your neighbourhood? Can we dance with the city? We will start together at The CarWash with some arrival exercises and then go out into the streets to become a human camera, follow the leaves, note everything that moves, walk avoiding stepping on the cracks and practice some soft parkour. 

The walk is open to anyone – please come along if you are curious to explore walking and the city in a playful, critical and poetic way.

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2024-10-27 13:00

Hosted by: Build Hollywood
1 Quaker Street, London E1 6SZ, United Kingdom

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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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