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Streets & Skies: Audio For Dreamers

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Multiple locations
25 minutes
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Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece

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The Walking Library

The Walking Library, created by Misha Myers and Dee Heddon, is an ongoing creative research project linking walking and books. Each edition adapts to its route, drawing on a long history of writers who walked, read, and carried books.

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books

Collection · 20 items

tour

Collection · 8 items

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Walking the Shadow City: Taran Khan’s path through Kabul’s streets, into its soul

Between 2006 and 2013 the writer Taran Khan made multiple trips to Kabul, Afghanistan, a city she felt was misunderstood by many outsiders. She decided to get to know it the best way she knew how, by heading out into its streets on foot, with all the risks and rewards that entailed. Annemarie Lopez interviewed

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Julian Hoffman
Walking piece

The Walking Library

The Walking Library, created by Misha Myers and Dee Heddon, is an ongoing creative research project linking walking and books. Each edition adapts to its route, drawing on a long history of writers who walked, read, and carried books.

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Sound walk
An audio tour to be taken in any bookshop, exploring the words, songs and pictures that make up our lives, featuring original writing and music.

An audio tour to be taken in any bookshop, exploring the words, songs and pictures that make up our lives, featuring original writing and music.

Download the audio onto your device. Stand on the street outside your chosen bookshop, put on your headphones, press play & enjoy.

Credits

Boating
Vocals: Amy Tsilemanis
Piano: Lucinda Horrocks
Mixed by Jary Nemo

Love
Vocals: Amy Tsilemanis
Guitar: Julian Potter
Viola: Mary Duff
Backup Vocals: Christine Tammer, Bill Winter-Irving , & Mary Duff
Mixed by Christine Tammer

APA style reference

Tsilemanis, A. (2015). Streets & Skies: Audio For Dreamers. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/streets-skies-audio-for-dreamers/
Submitted by: Babak Fakhamzadeh

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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