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Block 1307: An Uncommon History

1307: An Uncommon History
Seagram Building, New York, NY, USA
20 minutes
Free

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In 1307, walking becomes composition. A single Midtown Manhattan block unfolds through shifting audio, where hidden histories surface, overlap, and dissolve according to how you choose to move.

Curated as a contemplative, listener-shaped listening experience, this self-guided, on-demand soundwalk invites participants to explore one Midtown block as a layered historical and cultural field. Centered on the Seagram block (Park to Lexington, 52nd to 53rd), it uses geolocated audio zones where music, field recordings, and archival traces overlap, fade, and recombine as listeners move, pause, or retrace their steps. There is no prescribed route and no single “correct” reading: each body composes its own path through precolonial ecologies, rail and industrial histories, residential and cultural transformations, and corporate modernity.

APA style reference

Bethancourt, M. (2026). Block 1307: An Uncommon History. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/block-1307-an-uncommon-history/

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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