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The Tranquil Line

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Walthamstow, London, UK
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walking routes

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William Morris

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Lore of The Wild is a two-hour audio storywalk through Lesnes Abbey Woods, co-created by Bernadette Russell and Sophie Austin for Estuary 2021, featuring stories and sounds from the woodland's non-human inhabitants. The route includes varied terrain with steep inclines and is unsuitable for wheelchair users, with audio tracks available on SoundCloud and Spotify and a map provided at the Chestnut Kiosk.

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How the Slow Ways network could change walking in Britain | Walking holidays | The Guardian

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Sub-collection

walking routes

Sub-collection · 17 items

William Morris

Collection · 2 items

Related

Sound walk

Lore of The Wild

Lore of The Wild is a two-hour audio storywalk through Lesnes Abbey Woods, co-created by Bernadette Russell and Sophie Austin for Estuary 2021, featuring stories and sounds from the woodland's non-human inhabitants. The route includes varied terrain with steep inclines and is unsuitable for wheelchair users, with audio tracks available on SoundCloud and Spotify and a map provided at the Chestnut Kiosk.

Bernadette Russell Sophie Austin
Curated news

How the Slow Ways network could change walking in Britain | Walking holidays | The Guardian

Geographers have used lockdown to map a network of routes across Britain – joining urban areas via forgotten pathways Source: How the Slow Ways network could change walking in Britain | Walking holidays | The Guardian

Sound walk
The Tranquil Line is a suite of binaural soundscape recordings created in 2019 from a walk between the William Morris Gallery and Eastbury Manor House, presented at Eastbury Manor during the Open Construction exhibition. The work highlights points of relative tranquility along the route, inspired by the principles of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.

The Tranquil Line – I D Thompson, 2019

The Tranquil Line was initially presented as an installation in the South West Chamber library at Eastbury Manor, Barking in March 2019 as part of the Open Construction exhibition curated by Patrick Morrisey and Hanz Hancock.

The Tranquil Line is a suite of binaural soundscape recordings made on an early Spring walk between the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow and Eastbury Manor House in Barking.

Inspired by the guiding principles of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings founded by William Morris and Phillip Webb in 1877, the recordings highlight points of relative tranquility that still remain along the route.

An interactive map of the route can be found here: http://u.osmfr.org/m/355484/

APA style reference

Thompson, I. (2019). The Tranquil Line. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/the-tranquil-line/

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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