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Tags: drift, dérive, northfield, wrights & sites, mythogeography, mis-guide, psychogeography,  walking, phil smith, cathy turner, simon persighetti, stephen hodge
The Architect-Walker: A Mis-Guide
Wrights & Sites

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Readership

The Architect-Walker is a book for walkers, artists who use walking in their art, students of performance, geography, drama & society who are studying a world of intentional walking, anyone troubled by official guides to anywhere, psychogeographers, site-specific performers and urban explorers.​
The Architect-Walker
A Mis-Guide

Wrights & Sites
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.
Walking (including drift, dérive 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.

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"...in cities where every inch is privately owned and policed with security guards and cameras, this is the spirit we need."
Jonathan Calder on the Liberal England blog. Read the full review.

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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 are casting.
  • 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?
  • Architect-walkers make alliances with sinkholes and dazzle. When the sun’s reflection from a skyscraper melts the streets: that moment.
  • 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 through.
  • Ambulant architects are irresponsible: conservationists of edgelands and fetish affordances, authors of fake planning applications, leavers of gifts and chalkers of fake hobo symbols.

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