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Berlin’s historical city centre

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City Centre

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Germany

Collection · 30 items

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10 sub-collections · 252 items

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Johanna Steindorf
Sub-collection

City Centre

Sub-collection · 9 items

Germany

Collection · 30 items

history

10 sub-collections · 252 items

Related

Walking piece

Tales from the Towpath

The online version of the "Tales from the Towpath" immersive story experience, originally created for Manchester Literature Festival 2014, allows users worldwide to explore Manchester’s waterways and historic buildings through an interactive map. The project weaves together hidden, lost, and imagined lives of the city, presenting evolving mythologies about the past and possible futures related to water and nature.

mayacelium [Maya Chowdhry]
Sound walk

Audio-City Berlin Englisch

The Audioguide Berlin is your personal tour guide, that describes fifteen famous sights and works completely offline.

Walking piece

Space – We – Space

The audio walk invites listeners to explore the area surrounding Plagwitzer Bahnhof in Leipzig and to discover its hidden sound treasures. Listeners simply start the audio, follow the route, and discover the hidden sound spots along the way. The pictures provide hints how to find these spots and how to use them. Listeners can listen

La Pesch
Sound walk

Street Haunting: Reflections on staying at home and walking the city

Johanna Steindorf’s audio paper reflects on how pandemic-related sheltering in place has altered experiences of staying at home and walking in the city, drawing on Virginia Woolf’s and Xavier de Maistre’s writings. She discusses her artistic projects, including video and audio walks that explore mediated presences in urban spaces, examining their implications for understanding space and future experiences.

Johanna Steindorf
Sound walk
Allow our Berlin experts Anna Guchinski and Karl Lehmann to accompany you on your audio-guided walk around Berlin’s historical city centre.

Do you feel like undertaking a journey of discovery into the heart of Germany’s capital city? Any idea where to find a 360m long relief frieze that tells the history of the city? Can you imagine how an 80 tonne granite foundling boulder was transported to Berlin 200 years ago, which was then shaped into the city’s largest soup bowl?

Allow our Berlin experts Anna Guchinski and Karl Lehmann to accompany you on your audio-guided walk around Berlin’s historical city centre. Anna is an art historian very fond of pointing out minute details you would otherwise walk past without taking notice. Karl is basically at home on water; having grown up on cargo boats, he now escorts visitors to the city along the Spree river. Occasionally he does go ashore, though. That’s when he and Anna tour together, to accompany you and invite you to make fascinating discoveries in this city.

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(2014). Berlin’s historical city centre. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/berlins-historical-city-centre/
Submitted by: Babak Fakhamzadeh

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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