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pedestrian – Pedestrian Blog

The URL leads to the Pedestrian Blog hosted on Sandra Cowan’s website, which focuses on themes related to walking, art, and urban space. The blog features reflections, essays, and project documentation that explore walking as a cultural and artistic practice. It engages with the ways pedestrian movement intersects with environmental, social, and spatial contexts, often considering walking as a method of inquiry and creative expression within the urban landscape. The entries include discussions on walking art projects, public space interventions, and the experiential qualities of navigating city environments on foot. The blog situates these practices within broader discourses of cultural geography and environmental psychology, highlighting the significance of walking in understanding place, identity, and community dynamics. It serves as a resource for those interested in the intersections of art, geography, and pedestrian culture.

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Standing on a spot of a limitless landscape - out of homes, away from workspaces - the bodies become vehicles. The senses become compasses to navigate in this natural world made of concrete and soil. The trees are close enough to reach.

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Andrey Ustinov

Andrey Ustinov’s website showcases his work as a fine art photographer with a focus on urban and architectural themes. The portfolio features a series of carefully composed images that explore the interplay of light, shadow, and geometry within cityscapes. His photographs often highlight overlooked details and structural forms, creating a dialogue between the built environment and abstract visual elements. The collection emphasizes minimalist aesthetics and a contemplative approach to capturing modern urban spaces. The site also includes editorial projects and personal works, providing insight into Ustinov’s broader artistic vision. His style is characterized by precise framing and a nuanced use of monochrome and muted color palettes, which contribute to a sense of calm and introspection. Through his photographs, Ustinov examines the interaction between human presence and architectural design, focusing on patterns that emerge from everyday urban scenes.

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Wanders in the (wild) smart city

Combining song, text and binaural recordings, this sound walk prompts participants to engage with hidden digital processes in the urban landscape. It is geo-located, so through Echoes, sounds are triggered automatically in the walk locations.

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footwear

Collection · 2 items

spatiality

Collection · 19 items

Related

url

pedestrian – Pedestrian Blog

The URL leads to the Pedestrian Blog hosted on Sandra Cowan’s website, which focuses on themes related to walking, art, and urban space. The blog features reflections, essays, and project documentation that explore walking as a cultural and artistic practice. It engages with the ways pedestrian movement intersects with environmental, social, and spatial contexts, often considering walking as a method of inquiry and creative expression within the urban landscape. The entries include discussions on walking art projects, public space interventions, and the experiential qualities of navigating city environments on foot. The blog situates these practices within broader discourses of cultural geography and environmental psychology, highlighting the significance of walking in understanding place, identity, and community dynamics. It serves as a resource for those interested in the intersections of art, geography, and pedestrian culture.

Walking piece

| | | space

Standing on a spot of a limitless landscape - out of homes, away from workspaces - the bodies become vehicles. The senses become compasses to navigate in this natural world made of concrete and soil. The trees are close enough to reach.

Anastasia Polychronidou
url

Andrey Ustinov

Andrey Ustinov’s website showcases his work as a fine art photographer with a focus on urban and architectural themes. The portfolio features a series of carefully composed images that explore the interplay of light, shadow, and geometry within cityscapes. His photographs often highlight overlooked details and structural forms, creating a dialogue between the built environment and abstract visual elements. The collection emphasizes minimalist aesthetics and a contemplative approach to capturing modern urban spaces. The site also includes editorial projects and personal works, providing insight into Ustinov’s broader artistic vision. His style is characterized by precise framing and a nuanced use of monochrome and muted color palettes, which contribute to a sense of calm and introspection. Through his photographs, Ustinov examines the interaction between human presence and architectural design, focusing on patterns that emerge from everyday urban scenes.

Sound walk

Wanders in the (wild) smart city

Combining song, text and binaural recordings, this sound walk prompts participants to engage with hidden digital processes in the urban landscape. It is geo-located, so through Echoes, sounds are triggered automatically in the walk locations.

Jo Scott
Sound walk
With Marches, commissioned by Artangel Inter- action in February 2008, Lawrence Abu Hamdan set out to explore the auditory perception of the built environment using the ephemeral and intangible nature of sound to re- imagine our architectural surroundings and daily spatial practices. These choreo- graphed marches saw ten participants navigate two planned passages through the urban

With Marches, commissioned by Artangel Inter- action in February 2008, Lawrence Abu Hamdan set out to explore the auditory perception of the built environment using the ephemeral and intangible nature of sound to re- imagine our architectural surroundings and daily spatial practices.

These choreo- graphed marches saw ten participants navigate two planned passages through the urban districts of Tower Hill (track 1) and More London (track 2), areas distinct for both their lively history and mottled aural atmosphere.

Each member of this small troop was equipped with footwear designed and adapted in collabora- tion with west-end cobbler Andy during a mini res- idency at Anthony Andrews Special Footwear and Orthotics in April. These shoes were constructed for exaggerated sonic effect; loafers, boots and brogues were adorned with wooden platforms and hollow stiletto heels.

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Hosted by: The Wire

APA style reference

Abu Hamdam, L. (2008). Marches. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/marches/

slew

A short walk or stroll, as in “I’ll take a slew around the harbour before going to bed.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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