Featured Blog Posts – May 2010 Archive (7)

Walking with Community Architectures:

Space Kinaesthetics in Art and Food Cooking Society…

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Cultura21 International, Cultura21 Nordic et Cultura21 Institut e.V. (Allemagne) ont le plaisir d'annoncer le lancement de leur nouveau projet international, en collaboration avec l’Association internationale des centres culturels (I3C) et le Réseau latino-américain de l'art pour le… Continue

Walking from an anthropological perspective



Walking is part of everyday life. But although many people suffer from limited mobility, it is still considered as a ‘banal’ activity, which does not deserve further consideration. More than that, it is often denigrated as the last mean of transportation, which should be used only when no other mean is available. When people walk for particular reasons, the term is usually replaced by other verbs… Continue

Proposed activities for Walking alone and together

You are always alone (the subject), but always accompanied (by memory, culture and history, if not other people). The walking stick is an aid and a reminder of this. Walking, when

mindful or “attended to”, serves as a poultice. It warms, soothes, eases, while

drawing…

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Man walks deep in thought

His path absorbed by the ground

Man thinks deep in…

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At the first summer school in Bulgaria a practise based case study about the topology, criteria and indicator of mapping a worldwide heritage walk is supposed to be started. The goal is to label sustainable locations that focus special on bio- and cultural diversity instead of uniformity of our… Continue

The workshop intends to open up thinking about ‘walking’ by focusing on a closely tied object, that of the pavement/sidewalk/footpath. Recent civil society interventions aimed at ‘sustainable development’ have argued for the protection of pavements and the need to encourage walking in cities in the context rapid urban growth in developing countries like India. We find at the centre of this discourse someone who is recognizably a ‘citizen’.



The workshop asks what are the meanings of… Continue