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SWS21 2021

Bath Union Workhouse: a walk for the living with the route of the dead

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Bath, UK
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memorial

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Sound walk
This sound walk, created using Echoes xyz, guides participants through a reflective experience based on names and stories of those who died in the Bath Union Workhouse, collected over the two-year Walking the Names project. It includes contributions from walkers, live music by the Bath City Jubilee Waits, and served as a memorial during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

A sound walk using Echoes xyz.
A meander through a series of tragedies towards hope and responsibility.

The walk uses sounds gathered during the two year Walking the Names project. A slow walking and reading of the names of those who died of poverty in the Bath Union Workhouse. Walkers researched into those names and some of their stories are to be found here as well as creative and spontaneous contributions. In September 2020 the walkers were met by the Bath City Jubillee Waits who played songs for the wakes those buried never had, you will hear the music as you walk.

Walking the Names kept going throughout the lockdowns, the process became a reflection and our contribution to memorialising those who died of the virus in underfunnded care homes.

APA style reference

White, R. (2021). Bath Union Workhouse: a walk for the living with the route of the dead. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/bath-union-workhouse-a-walk-for-the-living-with-the-route-of-the-dead/

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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