MAPPING MEDIA WORKSHOP, DSD URBAN ASYMETRIES
As long as I am walking
text by Francis Alys
Walking, in particular drifting, or strolling, is already--within the speed culture of our time--a kind of resistance. But it also happens to be a very immediate method for unfolding stories. It's an easy cheap act to perform.
The Planned City vs. The Everyday
‘ONE CAN CHOOSE ANOTHER PATH’: Michel de Certeau’s criticism on the rationalization of the city and his alternative of reading it through everyday practices.
“The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the voracious property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten.” M. de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday life
“The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the voracious property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten.” M. de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday life