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Sound walk SWS20 2020

Carte bavarde des Cités-Jardins / Chatty map from the “Garden city” (Brussels)

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1170 Watermael-Boitsfort, Belgium
French

gardens

Collection · 27 items

Interviews

1 sub-collections · 28 items
Sub-collection

sound artist

Sub-collection · 13 items

Regions

Brussels

City · 10 items

gardens

Collection · 27 items

Interviews

1 sub-collections · 28 items
Sub-collection

sound artist

Sub-collection · 13 items

Regions

Brussels

City · 10 items
Two garden cities in south-east Brussels, nearing their 100th anniversary, are the focus of a project collecting resident interviews about local experiences. These French-language testimonies are mapped for online exploration or geolocated walking tours, initiated by sound artist Anne Versailles with the Maison de quartier des Cités-Jardins.

The garden city is a concept theorized by the British urban planner Ebenezer Howard in 1898, in his book To-morrow: A peaceful path to real reform. It is a way of thinking about the city as opposed to the polluted industrial city.
In the south-east of Brussels, two garden cities will soon celebrate their 100th anniversary. Some inhabitants have interviewed their neighbors about their intimate experience of their neighbourhood. All these testimonies (in french) are placed on a map that can be discovered on the Internet or, in a geolocalized way, by walking in these streets and alleys.

A project initiated by Anne Versailles (sound artist) with the Maison de quartier des Cités-Jardins.

www.cartebavarde.net/carte-bavarde-des-cites-jardins/
https://recursivearts.com/sonicmaps/player/index.html?p=237

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Anne Versailles (2020). Carte bavarde des Cités-Jardins / Chatty map from the “Garden city” (Brussels). walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/carte-bavarde-des-cites-jardins-chatty-map-from-the-garden-city-brussels/

cat-foot

Cats aren’t known for clomping around like Clydesdales; they’re stealthy. That’s why cat-footing refers to walking that’s more subtle and graceful than that of the average oaf. In Harry L. Wilson’s 1916 book Somewhere in Red Gap, this word appears in characteristic fashion: “…I didn’t yell any more. I cat-footed. And in a minute I was up close.” Cat-footing is a requirement for a career as a cat burglar. Credits to Mark Peters.

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