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Walking the Bypass – notes on places from the side of the road

Reflections from the lone traveller for whom a highway was never the intended destination Walking the Bypass recounts Ken Wilson’s singular experience of walking alongside the decidedly pedestrian-unfriendly Regina Bypass, all while situating the highway within the ongoing history of settler colonialism in southern Saskatchewan. Through a series of ambitious and unconventional walks, Wilson sets out to

Ken Wilson
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Mythogeography: A guide to walking sideways

2 parts storyThis is the gloriously funny and endlessly fascinating account of the author’s recent journey on foot across the north of England in the footsteps of a man who made the same journey 100 years ago with a dog trouvé called Pontiflunk.Buy it just for his inimitable account of the journey. 1 part handbookThe

Phil Smith
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Society of the Spectacle

In Society of the Spectacle, Thomas Zipp examines Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" and Guy Debord's "The Society of the Spectacle". The two literary works offer different perspectives on society.

Babak Fakhamzadeh
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Walk Notations

Walk Notations brings together traces emerging from Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method, a series of artistic walks across Berlin in 2025. Moving between artistic practices, curatorial conversations, and reflections, the book approaches walking as a method for being together in public space. Some contributions revisit specific sites or gestures while others move further afield, driven

Eirini Fountedaki

architecture

1 sub-collections · 76 items

freedom

Collection · 18 items

Involuntary

Collection · 1 items

Related

book

Walking the Bypass – notes on places from the side of the road

Reflections from the lone traveller for whom a highway was never the intended destination Walking the Bypass recounts Ken Wilson’s singular experience of walking alongside the decidedly pedestrian-unfriendly Regina Bypass, all while situating the highway within the ongoing history of settler colonialism in southern Saskatchewan. Through a series of ambitious and unconventional walks, Wilson sets out to

Ken Wilson
book

Mythogeography: A guide to walking sideways

2 parts storyThis is the gloriously funny and endlessly fascinating account of the author’s recent journey on foot across the north of England in the footsteps of a man who made the same journey 100 years ago with a dog trouvé called Pontiflunk.Buy it just for his inimitable account of the journey. 1 part handbookThe

Phil Smith
walkingevent

Society of the Spectacle

In Society of the Spectacle, Thomas Zipp examines Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" and Guy Debord's "The Society of the Spectacle". The two literary works offer different perspectives on society.

Babak Fakhamzadeh
book

Walk Notations

Walk Notations brings together traces emerging from Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method, a series of artistic walks across Berlin in 2025. Moving between artistic practices, curatorial conversations, and reflections, the book approaches walking as a method for being together in public space. Some contributions revisit specific sites or gestures while others move further afield, driven

Eirini Fountedaki
Walking piece
A topographic reflection (unfinished and expandable) that seeks to account for the psychiatric landscape that coexists within our surroundings.

The “Mad Maps” series is a topographic reflection (unfinished and expandable) that seeks to account for the psychiatric landscape that coexists within our surroundings – uncomfortable to look at, and often obscured by the building that stands on it.

Through these tracings, architecture is removed from the spaces where witnesses of involuntary admissions have told they were restricted from moving freely with their bodies. This time not searching for symbols (for other movements, see: https://walklistencreate.org/2025/10/22/walking-art-transforming-treatments/), I aim to restore the fields to their natural dimension -to evoke the sounds that surround them (birds, squirrels), or their elevations (the effort or breath) that might be felt. Above all, this is imagined in the case where freedom of movement were to be considered within psychiatric admissions that, as a community, we cannot yet bear to acknowledge.

APA style reference

Sauleda, A. (2025). “Mad Maps” series. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/mad-maps-series/

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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