Walking and Exploring

My contribution today is titled Walking with buildings. The flâneur and the (im)mobilizing power of non-human narrators and aims to reflect on the contrasting encounter between the apparent immobility of buildings, as non-human inert bodies, and the peculiar mobility of the flâneur. I said apparent immobility because my provocation starts precisely from the idea that buildings, despite their inertia, have an intrinsic power to mobilize our gaze and move our feet: my proposal is to imagine them as non-human narrators that invite the flâneur to move in the city both vertically, discovering changes in time, and horizontally, exploring connections in space. Furthermore, as (im)mobile concrete archives, buildings invite us to reflect once again on the peculiarity of the flâneur’s mobility, which is made of a constant alternation between walking and resting, listening and writing practices. Even if always on the move, the flâneur constantly takes time for slow practices like resting, reflect and writing, thus resisting through his own body to the rapid flows of contemporary cities and neoliberal rhythms.
I will explore these suggestions by proposing three examples: first, a graphic novel by Will Eisner published in 1987 and titled "The building"; second, "Living with buildings and walking with ghosts" the latest work by the well-known psychogeographer Iain Sinclair, which appeared in 2018 and became also an exhibition; third, a personal flânerie in the Brutalist Robin Hood Gardens Estate, that I’ve realised in February 2019 while I was living in Tower Hamlets, East London. Following Sinclair’s exploration, I will focus on brutalist estates as architectural bodies that have peculiar stories to tell thanks, to their controversial and critical position in contemporary London as in many other cities. But, How can we listen to voices of buildings, interpreting them as non-human narrators that keep stories hidden in them? Furthermore, “is there a link between the walking and storytelling practice of the flâneur and the encounter with the (im)mobilities
of buildings?”

Einkaufen-Gehen ist etwas, was allein in der Stadt wirklich geht. lm Dorf kann man nur Besorgungen machen, und in der Kleinstadt kann man darüber hinaus höchstens zum Einkaufen fahren. lch gehe Einkaufen meint im urbanen Kontext etwas anderes als Ich mache Besorgungen. Gehen und Kaufen sind beim Einkaufen-Gehen in dieselbe flache, in sich selbst ein wenig verschobene Gegenwart verfügt, und diese Gegenwart lässt kaum Ansatzpunkte für eine Zäsurierung des Gehens erkennbar werden, an denen man eine Kauf-Handlung von der Geh-Bewegung abtrennen könnte.

This paper/chapter examines examples of UK-based walking arts practitioners who work around the boundaries of everyday or leisure walking; part of an identifiable ‘meshwork’ with unevenly shared principles, aesthetics and narratives. The chapter then examines representations of the “why” of conventional recreational walking (hiking and rambling) as expressed in popular walking publications and concludes by identifying philosophical affordances in leisure and radical walking for mutual engagement.

Wandering as Pathscaping, by Vanessa Grasse, presents a practical and theoretical enquiry into a walking and drawing practice grounded in a somatic and dance improvisation informed approach. This is articulated through the author’s experience of walking through two cities without destination, questioning: how to allow a state of wandering, the perceptual processes involved in this state, how these affect navigating, and how the research could reveal an open-ended methodology of practice. Drawing on the notion of ‘wayfaring’ (Ingold, 2011)  and  an ‘active line on a walk’ (Klee, 1953), it proposes wandering as an embodied improvisational practice that engages in a dialogue between welcoming multiplicity and finding containment, as a method to navigate perception, the urban environment and the creative process. Drawing on the attention practices of Deborah Hay, Lisa Nelson and Pauline Olivero it looks at the role of attentional and orientational dynamics in wandering; introducing attentional wandering in relation to permeability and responsiveness to indeterminacy. The extent of our here is proposed as a key orientational process in wandering, in which ground is seen as a perceptual model for the visual and aural fields through emphasizing edges and a towards me perception. Through articulating a walking-drawing practice it then proposes wandering as pathscaping; a journeying that, like drawing, welcomes, channels and scapes multiplicity into a path. The paper moves on to consider how the dialogue between flux and containment was reflected in developing a methodology of practice, revealing how the findings layered into three different modes of attention: Ground-Scape-Edges, Inner-Outer Line, Encounters-Synchronicity. These, combined with a selection of scores, are presented as a frame and an open-ended proposition for the practice. It concludes with the proposal that wandering resides in surrendering to both multiplicity and our here, and allowing a flow of inner and outer attentional dynamics in dialogue with our ground orientation to scape our emergent, wandering and unknown path.

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La Strada, che io credevo capace di imprimere alla mia vita svolte sorprendenti, la strada con le sue inquietudini e i suoi sguardi, era il mio vero elemento: in essa ricevevo come in nessun altro luogo il vento dell'eventualità." André Breton Camminare per la città, osservarne le espressioni, le stratificazioni, i segni. La deriva deambulatoria come libertà di movimento ed esplorazione, è strumento di conoscenza, di osservazione estetica urbana. La pratica del deambulare passando attraverso i sensi della vista, del tatto e dell'olfatto approda ad una possibile conoscenza etica contemporanea del vivere e dell'abitare. Tale pratica è stata oggi riscoperta da sociologi e urbanisti come strumento da utilizzare per le esplorazioni dei centri urbani: conosciuti, sconosciuti, e da esplorare. Vivere nella città, abitarne i luoghi, attraversarne le linee, gli spazi, intuire i rapporti tra il costruito e il non costruito. Camminando senza avere in mente un punto d'arrivo, senza un appuntamento prestabilito al tal posto alla tal ora, senza meta.... Come i flaneurs francesi di un tempo, i flaneurs contemporanei possono osservare i contorni, gli interni, i limiti, abbandonandosi ad una passeggiata urbana guidata dai sensi. Così il passaggio dall'estetica all'etica del vivere avviene naturalmente.

Je ne puis méditer qu'en marchant, sitôt que je m'arrête, je ne pense plus, et ma tête ne va qu'avec mes pieds » (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions, IX, p343 éditions Barbier, Paris, 1846) Dans nombre de ses textes, devenus des talismans pour tous les pèlerins d'Ermenonville, Jean-Jacques Rousseau exprime sa passion de la marche à pied. C'est là, dit-il, qu'il pense, qu'il crée aussi : « Je ne fais jamais rien qu'à la promenade, la campagne est mon cabinet ; l'aspect d'une table, du papier et des livres me donne de l'ennui » 1 . Le fait même que Rousseau expose sa « passion ambulatoire » 2 , et lui donne même, dans l'éducation de son Émile, une forme pédagogique, la transforme proprement en objet d'appréciation pour lui : 1 Rousseau, Mon portrait. Cité par Frédéric Gros, Paris 2011 p91 2 Rousseau, « L'idée d'un grand voyage flattait ma manie ambulante qui déjà commençait à se déclarer. » (Confessions II p44) 3 Rousseau, Confessions, IV, édition citée.

This article, published in two parts, combines insights form travel writing, history, and urban studies to explore the social welfare milieu of early 20th century New York City and its connection to disaster relief efforts for Titanic survivors.  Part Two appeared in Voyage 108 in Summer 2019 and is also posted on Academia.edu.

After a review of recent psychogeographical practice and publications, this talk addresses the challenges for contemporary psychogeography from a multiplicitous and invasive global Spectacle that has shifted beyond its former 'integrated' state. The talk proposes that psychogeography make its own shifts in relation to a shorter and more flexible situational-'dérive' (and away from the ideal of the 'permanent 'dérive''), embracing the principle of disturbance and the practice of encoding and re-encoding space. It also discusses the uses of fictional totalities in psychogeography, experiment, and the uses for the 'mess' of the situationist milieu.

The tourism industry from 2012 to 2022 is expected to grow by an average of 4% annually to constitute 10% of global GDP (US$10 trillion). It is also predicted by 2022, globally, one in every ten jobs (328 million) will be tourism-related. With the unprecedented growth of tourism it is essential that sustainable planning guidelines are adhered to. Sustainable management of our natural resources is now a high priority, as tourism planners attempt to avoid past problems associated with the mass tourism market as happened in the case of the rapid growth of the Costas around the Mediterranean Sea from the 1960s until the 1990s.This type of mass or ‘fast tourism’ represents the very antithesis of a type of tourism that is
considered sustainable. The dominant approaches to tourism development heretofore illustrated little or no concern for the existing landscape, social, environmental or economic and it is hoped that the dawn of ‘slow tourism’ and more ecological approaches that are based on a valorisation of natural landscapes can avoid, and to some extent, ameliorate the problems of the past and rejuvenate rural economies. This thesis looks in detail at an example of a tourism product that is based on the principles and practices of sustainability, as it examines the walking tourism industry in the Sheep’s Head Way on the south-west coast of Ireland as a mechanism for local development. The primary data and information gathered form a narrative of the innovative efforts that led to the development of the walkway. A near census of the peninsula provides an in-depth analysis of landowners’ and farmers’ attitudes to the evolution of the walkway as well as other attributes such as: environmental awareness, issues of sustainability, community
links, farm diversification and conservation of the landscape. The success of the walkway is achieved through effective collaboration, financial assistance from REPS (Rural Environmental Protection Scheme), Walks Scheme payments, and the desire of a community to showcase their native and spectacular landscape. The results illustrate significant differences among the landowners' orientations towards the environment and a range of factors that influence landowners' intentions to engage in environmental conservation and sustainable tourism. Other themes that emerge through this study include local economic benefits, community collaboration and land access rights. Suppliers of nature-based tourism activities are at the helm of the future direction of sustainable tourism and it is essential that they are consulted and surveyed with the same detail as users of nature-based activities.

Supervisors: Dr. Hélène Bradley Davies & Dr. Brendan O’Keeffe

El objetivo de este estudio es mostrar desde una perspectiva fenomenológica cómo el caminar potencia nuestra mente y en especial la creatividad. Nuestra
investigación recorre los múltiples ejemplos de pensadores, poetas, músicos, pintores que
han utilizado el caminar como herramienta creativa de búsqueda e inspiración. El trabajo teórico se completa con la propuesta y el diseño de una red de rutas de arte y naturaleza en el espacio periurbano de Granada. La metodología utilizada has sido analítica, comparativa y crítica para investigar los aspectos filosóficos, antropológicos, estéticos y sociales del acto de caminar, y procesual / experimental para la creación de las rutas en
Granada. Las conclusiones de nuestra estudio confirman que el caminar fomenta la creatividad y que Granada posee un espacio periurbano inexplorado de gran interés. Con
la revalorización del cuerpo activo sobre el territorio es posible proponer una dimensión más humana y ecológica a la vida en ciudad. El ser humano necesita permanecer en
conexión con la creatividad que es su verdadera esencia.

This article assesses aspects of the troubled and disputed practice of the dérive some half a century after its Lettriste inception. Rather than seeking to draw a 'virtuous' layer from the multiplicity of practices presently grouped around the category of 'derive', the article identifies generative properties in their contradictions and variegated connections. Particular attention is given to the spatial question, to the politics of the everyday and 'anywhere', to the limitations of aesthetic and occult psychogeographies – suggesting their dispersed and hybrid redeployment – and to the dérive as a socialized rather than individual practice. The article addresses the relationship of the dérive to relational aesthetic practices as a means to renew a connection with a critique of the spectacle, with the distributive trajectories of labour and capital, and with the creation of 'situations' in a society that has, for some time, accommodated them.

Tisk Cicero Begunje, d. o. o. Naklada 300 izvodov Prva izdaja, prvi natis Ljubljana 2019 Izid knjige sta podprla Javna agencija za raziskovalno dejavnost Republike Slovenije in ZRC SAZU. CIP -Kataložni zapis o publikaciji Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica, Ljubljana 929Vodnik V.(082) 821.163.6.09Vodnik V.(082) 811.163.6(082) OŽIVLJENI Vodnik: razprave o Valentinu Vodniku/ [uredile Andreja Legan Ravnikar, Irena Orel, Alenka Jelovšek]. -l. izd., l. natis. -Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2019. -(Zbirka Linguistica et philologica; 39) ISBN 978-961-05-0241-8 l. Legan Ravnikar, Andreja 2. Vodnik, Valentin COBISS.SI-ID 302913536 To delo je na voljo pod pogoji slovenske licence Creative Commons 4.0 CC BY NC-ND, ki ob navajanju in priznavanju avtorstva dopušča reproduciranje in distribuiranje, ne dovoljuje pa dajanja v najem, priobčevanja v javnosti za komercialni namen in nobene predelave.

Patika yürüyüşü zorlu, bir o kadar da keyifli bir dinlenme aracıdır. İşaretli rotalarda yürümek bu zorluğu bir derece azaltır. Peki bu parkurlar nasıl hazırlanıyor? Türkiye’nin en uzun yürüyüş rotası olarak anılan Karia Yolu 2009 yılında resmî olarak açıldı. Yolu hazırlayan üç kişiden biri olan Altay Özcan ile yol açmanın inceliklerini, yürüyüşü ve doğanın çağrısını konuştuk.

This paper describes the assembling of a taxonomy of 'zombie space', consisting of categories of fictional urban space drawn from zombie films and other expressions of a living dead 'mythos', and presents a provisional set of these categories. The paper places this assembling in the context of the use of taxonomies in alternative ambulatory practices such as the Dadaist de-ambulation, the situationist dérive, and contemporary 'walking as art' practices. It concludes by describing the problems, specifically the paucity of theoretical detail and the lack of practical models, faced in the deployment of such a taxonomy when moving beyond an observational or experiential walk to one that is part of the construction of 'situations'.

Short essay on Anne Carson's "Kinds of Water" from the book "ANNE CARSON ECSTATIC LYRE" out from University of Michigan Press this spring (2015) and edited by JM Wilkinson. I have also included in the PDF the Table of Contents for the entire book on Carson.

The Anthropocene denotes the point at which people become influencers – orchestrating change, impacting, shaping, and structuring the earth. The notable absence of women in the discussion of walking art tells us something about the history we have constructed. The proposed paper considers some of the key questions and underpinning relationships in which I am interested as a feminist art historian, in particular the often overlooked significance and contribution of women in creative practice. While female artists have long been absent from discussions of walking art, the suggestion that this is because there have traditionally been no women creating this type of art seems both absurd and incorrect. This paper begins to re-evaluate the gendered history we have built and to critically deconstruct assumed truths that have been created through omission and oversight. Through taking a closer look at the ways in which women have contributed and helped shape the practice of walking art, and the depth and variety of approaches with which they tackle this artistic practice, the contribution of women in walking art is acknowledged. Moreover, the argument is put forward that walking art remains a critical creative practice today in which artists can seize the means of production by rendering it invalid through the power and autonomy of creating works privately without institutional or public validation. Specifically, the scope of the paper considers how the autonomy of walking provides female artists with a radical means of (re)claiming space and the landscape around them by engaging with and blurring the private with the public. Walking art becomes a means through which artists can become an active part of the landscape around them, both literally and socially, challenging notions of access and authority.

Today we are living in modern Internet era. We can get all our information from the internet anytime and from anywhere using a desktop PC or a smart phone. However, the underlying technology for relevant information retrieval from the internet is not so trivial, as internet is a huge repository of all different kinds of information. Moreover, data collection in the intern Retrieving the relevant information from the internet in the Big Data era is same as finding a needle in the haystack. This paper explores information retrieval models and experiments Semantic Indexing (LSI) first and then with the more efficient topic modeling algorithm of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). Comparisons between the two models are described clearly and concisely in their ef topic modeling. Various applications of topic modeling are also reviewed in this paper from the literature.

This article, published in two parts, combines insights form travel writing, history, and urban studies to explore the social welfare milieu of early 20th century New York City and its connection to disaster relief efforts for Titanic survivors.  It should be read with Part One, which appeared in Voyage 107 and is also posted on Academia.edu.

This is an informative (yet informal) description of the route of Hadrian’s Wall and all the remains that can still be seen. For most of the route from east to west, it follows the Hadrian’s Wall National Trail Footpath, but with an important difference: where the path veers off the line of the Wall, this account stays with it and allows you to examine the remains most other walkers do not see (and most other guidebooks do not describe).

Z mnoha stran se ozývá volání po nutnosti holistického přístupu ke globalizovanému, fyzicky i digitálně zesíťovanému světu v klimatické krizi – ovšem planetární ekosystém byl komplexní strukturou dávno předtím, než si toho lidstvo všimlo. Potřebné jiné myšlení můžeme trénovat tam, kde se právě nacházíme. Za hranicí města čeká les.

Artículo inspirado en la tesis de maestría del autor en el que se sintetizan los más relevantes datos sobre los sistemas de construcción de caminos mayas en tiempos previos a la conquista española y testimonios de cronistas de la capacidad constructiva que permiten inferir las modalidades ancestrales,

ISSN-e 2027-9035, Nº. 11, año VI, págs. 13-35

Wandering as Pathscaping, by Vanessa Grasse, presents a practical and theoretical enquiry into a walking and drawing practice grounded in a somatic and dance improvisation informed approach. This is articulated through the author’s experience of walking through two cities without destination, questioning: how to allow a state of wandering, the perceptual processes involved in this state, how these affect navigating, and how the research could reveal an open-ended methodology of practice. Drawing on the notion of ‘wayfaring’ (Ingold, 2011)  and  an ‘active line on a walk’ (Klee, 1953), it proposes wandering as an embodied improvisational practice that engages in a dialogue between welcoming multiplicity and finding containment, as a method to navigate perception, the urban environment and the creative process. Drawing on the attention practices of Deborah Hay, Lisa Nelson and Pauline Olivero it looks at the role of attentional and orientational dynamics in wandering; introducing attentional wandering in relation to permeability and responsiveness to indeterminacy. The extent of our here is proposed as a key orientational process in wandering, in which ground is seen as a perceptual model for the visual and aural fields through emphasizing edges and a towards me perception. Through articulating a walking-drawing practice it then proposes wandering as pathscaping; a journeying that, like drawing, welcomes, channels and scapes multiplicity into a path. The paper moves on to consider how the dialogue between flux and containment was reflected in developing a methodology of practice, revealing how the findings layered into three different modes of attention: Ground-Scape-Edges, Inner-Outer Line, Encounters-Synchronicity. These, combined with a selection of scores, are presented as a frame and an open-ended proposition for the practice. It concludes with the proposal that wandering resides in surrendering to both multiplicity and our here, and allowing a flow of inner and outer attentional dynamics in dialogue with our ground orientation to scape our emergent, wandering and unknown path.

Of late I have been pondering the nature of ‘internal exploration’.  I will bounce off comments made by Michael Robinson and David Renwick Grant, who in turn commented on Mikael’s post “Am I a fake and a cheat?”  I thought Mikael’s and David’s comments were interesting, especially when it came to the question of such exploration and just what it might entail.  Surely it is about who we are, and what we can achieve within the resources that are offered by our minds......(See remainder of article on blog)

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This fort is the home to the Army Reserves, Coast Guard, FDNY, FBI, and 
the public, but it's like a monastery for me because, despite the aforementioned, you can find inner and outer peace here. I do a meditation walk on the fort's roads (little traffic), and in-between my little exercise, I will take shots of the natural surroundings. For me, this is a walk-meditate-shoot exercise, where I try to keep my focus and awareness first, on walking, second on meditating, and third, on shooting trees, clouds, flowers, and whatever else catches my eye.

This paper presents an exploratory account of contemplation and meditative experience as found in Coleridge’s ‘Meditative Poems’ and in the nature writing recorded in his notebooks. In these writings, we see the importance of meditative thinking as an exercise concerned with spiritual transformation towards the true, the good, and the beautiful. Sometimes meditation is used as a practical device to stimulate the imagination. At other times it is used as a method to map and
follow a train of thought outside the head, as it were, in the immediate landscape, which process is related to the communing with nature as that Coleridge and Wordsworth pursued. I examine Coleridge’s ‘Meditative Poems’ and notebooks in order to situate his approach to imagination and Idea as applied in his poetic thought.

Integrating body-mind, space and time, place and temporality, walking induces connections with the self and the world in particular and complex ways. Because land is itself a narrative upon which walking is performed, and walking is a doubly dialectical narrating act - in walking we both read and write landscape, creating and finding meaning in it while walking - the analysis of its cognitive and affective possibilities would render a meta-narrative that couples the performative with thought and landscape in a dynamic embodied reciprocity.
My particular interest is challenging this relationship beyond a purely aesthetic and poetic pursuit, with the intention to facilitate an experience with the overall delivering goal to act as ontological shifter. This goal aims at the expansion of conceptual and phenomenological categories and boundaries, including human consciousness. Walking can produce a different level of discernment to build more robust configurations of how knowledge and ethical values are generated, enacted and communicated.

What are ways to integrate cognitive and phenomenological inquiry modes with walking in nature? What would it require in order for it to become a pedagogical model as generative field where ethical values may be enacted and communicated?

This is the accompanying paper for a new media art project that challenges the concept of community through public, political and personal narratives. This work critically approaches the urban landscape as reflexive interventions within contested sites. These eight augmented reality installations throughout Hamilton can be accessed by using the free Aurasma app available for iOS and Android. Many familiar spaces and signs have been altered.

Today we are living in modern Internet era. We can get all from anywhere using a desktop PC or a smart phone. However, the underlying technology for relevant information retrieval from the internet is not so trivial, as internet is a huge repository of all different ki Moreover, data collection in the internet is growing exponentially and it is termed now a day as Big Data era. Retrieving the relevant information from the internet in the Big Data era is same as finding a needle in the haystack. This paper explores information retrieval models and experiments with the basic topic modeling concept of Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) first and then with the more efficient topic modeling algorithm of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). Comparisons between the topic modeling. Various applications of topic modeling are also reviewed in this paper from the literature.

The current essay consists of a reflection on the construction of the experience of citadin life departing from the principles of Walter Benjamin’s theory of distraction. By making use of the method of montage, the photographs that compose this essay were carefully constructed having banal elements of everyday material culture as their object, aiming at allowing observers to consider the experience of contemporary city anew; one that is not closed up in the direct and explicit meaning of what is shown (the indexicality of photograph), but that turns its attention to the action of memory, to the act of registering (archiving), and to concrete reality and distraction itself as elements capable of shredding the obviousness of urban life’s sensory reception.