The architect-walker a mis-guide / Wrights & Sites.
| Author/creator | Wrights & Sites |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Axminster, England : Triarchy Press, 2018. |
| Description | 119 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Hodge, Stephen, 1967- |
| Other author/creator | Persighetti, Simon. |
| Other author/creator | Smith, Phil, 1956- |
| Other author/creator | Turner, Cathy. |
| Series | Mis-guide Mis-guide. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Summary | Walking (including drift, derive and radical walking) is the principal way for people to engage with the built environment. Artist-walkers, performance artists, urban activists and others have created a new discipline out of urban walking. This book takes a step further, acknowledging the more active role we can all take. It reinvents the walker as architect-walker and offers tools and tactics for the engaged urban walker, a philosophy of ambulant architecture and countless examples of ways in which the authors and others are already practising architect-walking. 'The Architect-Walker' is Wrights & Sites' anti-manifesto for changing a world while exploring it. It is a tool for playful debate, collaboration, intervention and spatial meaning-making. An invitation to engage. A few suggestions and observations from the book: * Build something, however small, that is not allowed. * Un-pave your garden. Make a hedgehog run under the fence. * Crawl more. * Protect what gaps you can. They aren't empty. They aren't yours. * In a group and in bright sunlight, carry sticks and timbers. Only pay attention to the shadows you cast. * Even to stand and look at the sky is to become a human signpost. * Find empty niches waiting to be filled with memorials to unacknowledged women. * Submit a planning application to move a major building 10cm. * What if we were to see the body as an ambulant building that is able to change the nature of space? * What is the smallest physical presence required to create a space? * Make alliances with sinkholes and dazzle - when the reflection from a skyscraper melts the streets. * When enough people dance a new dance of place, it becomes a different place. * Carry a small bell for ringing on the hour to restore local time to the streets. * Hang a red rope between two brass stands in front of a random space. Unhook it and usher people in. * Be conservationists of edgelands, authors of fake planning applications, chalkers of fake hobo symbols. |
| General note | "Formed in 1997 in Exeter, UK, Wrights & Sites are four artist-researchers (Stephen Hodge, Simon Persighetti, Phil Smith and Cathy Turner) whose work is focused on people's relationships to places, cities and walking."--Back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-115). |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018304429 |
| ISBN | 1911193104 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781911193104 (paperback) |