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Drawing Walks and Intervals as Activation Devices

Drawing Walks and Intervals as Activation Devices
Central Saint Martins, Granary Square, London, UK
90 minutes

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In Fieldwalking – Groundlines, Ruth Broadbent created 72 drawings inspired by walking the landscape where a collection of flints were discovered.

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In Cadarço, Marcius Galan tied his sneaker to a shoelace continuously produced by a braiding machine at Galeria Vermelho. He walked only as far as the thread allowed, turning movement into a negotiation with time, waiting, and constraint.

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Drawing Walks and Intervals as Activation Devices explores how walking and drawing activate shifts between roles and selves.

Drawing Walks and Intervals as Activation Devices explores how walking and drawing act as tools to navigate and activate shifts between my roles as artist, teacher, and researcher. Influenced by Myriam Lefkowitz’s sensory walking, Bouchra Khalili’s mapping of lived journeys, Polychronidou’s political walks and Springgay and Truman’s activation devices, the project investigates how drawing and walking with others generates space for reflection and transformation. Through collaborative drawing walks with colleagues, I explore how movement, conversation, and the sketchbook become methods for thinking and making, tracing thresholds between personal and professional selves.

Credits

Joe Richardson - Researcher
Semin Hong - Participant
Grusha Tiwari - Participant
Roberta Bonfield - Participant
Participant 1 - Participant

APA style reference

Richardson, J. (2025). Drawing Walks and Intervals as Activation Devices. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/drawing-walks-and-intervals-as-activation-devices/

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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