What can one know about a place through observing and interacting with rhythms of walking?
I am more and more curious about this system of flow and movement in a city. An ecology of bodies/movements.
The three days/themes:
scales/bodies/heights
bridges/borders/fences
silences/waits/(in)visibility
can serve as prompts for finding sites to research in.
For example:
I would choose three different sites based on the words provided. So, for the first day, I may choose to work in an area where the relationship between sidewalk width and bldg height was extreme. The second day I might work in an area of contested borders or a more residential area where the boundary between private and public are strong. And on the third day, move to a place where there are silences (or lack there of) and consider ways to engage in that slower pace, stillness.
In each site the focus of the research would be on the body/space/time relation--with a focus on ways the bodies move through space, connecting to that, improvising with that movement and discovering something different about each space through this research.
I like that Bianca has propose a follow up activity--coming back and offering something back to the group from the research. I think we could all have actions that we work on and then a structure for how to share that back to the group.
We will have a lot of information gathered and then, I can imagine, go through a process of editing and selecting and composing.
More thoughts on the way....
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