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Sound walk SWS24 2024

Place-making and the rivers of Lewisham

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As we follow the river from Lower Sydenham to Catford Bridge, in Lewisham, South East London, we invite you to think about how these places were made and how people continue to feed into shaping the river and the spaces through which it flows. We’ll be hearing from those who look after it, those who move through it and play in it. To walk with us on the route of the walk, start at the entrance to the Waterlink Way on Southend Lane. We will walk from here to Catford Bridge. From: maps.app.goo.gl/uESVrh6h2YoMsUCQ8 to: maps.app.goo.gl/bQHWhJQgdV9G8iDq8 Otherwise, listen wherever you are!

Place-making and the rivers of Lewisham is a research project based at Goldsmiths, University of London at the Centre for Urban and Community Research. The project is based on three questions: How are Lewisham’s rivers constructed, drawn upon, included or excluded in plans for regeneration and development in the borough? how are the rivers practised and imagined by those who live by them, care for them, and spend time alongside and in them? What are the synergies, conflicts and potential opportunities that arise from these different kinds of place-making on the rivers?

As part of this project, urban sociologists Emma Jackson and Louise Rondel created two podcast episodes, where you can join them for a walk along Lewisham’s rivers, examining how rivers shape the city and how the city shapes the rivers.

Credits

Written and narrated by Emma Jackson and Louise Rondel

Field recordings by Konstantinos Damianakis

Produced by Poppy Moroney

APA style reference

Jackson, E. (2024). Place-making and the rivers of Lewisham. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/place-making-and-the-rivers-of-lewisham/

plodge

The Scottish and English word plodging has been wading through the lexical muck and mire since the late 1700s, and it refers to icky, slow, molasses-type walking. Plodge is probably a variation of plod. This word isn’t totally out of use, as a 1995 use from British magazine The Countryman illustrates: “Northbound Pennine Wayfarers, plodging through the interminable peat-bogs of the North Pennines.” Even if you have a spring in your step, it’s tough to skip merrily through the peat-bogs. Credits to Mark Peters.

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