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Category Archives: Spatiality & temporality

Flow and the capacity to exceed form

Monday, April 7, 2008

Rivers as artifacts by Matt Edgeworth
For the most part rivers tend to be regarded as more or less natural features of a landscape or townscape … Yet a river and its flow of water is actually often as culturally re-shaped, used and re-used, as any artifact or building … Are rivers natural or cultural? Rivers [...]

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Responding to invitations

Thursday, March 13, 2008

As the Desire Paths Flickr Pool makes the rounds, I thought I’d point to Matt’s recent article, Accepting Invitations: Desire Lines as Earthly Offerings
I would like to suggest that desire lines are not merely the product of a human-desiring, nor are they merely a material expression of some aspect of the human imagination; rather, desire [...]

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Care and the Art of Dwelling: Bodies, Technologies and Home

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Call for Papers
Guest Eds. Domenech, M., Schillmeier, M.
Thinking about care practices entails a reflection concerning practices of space. Heidegger’s notion of ‘dwelling as caring’ addresses this relationship. In this vein we are interested in rethinking the concepts and practices of care in contemporary societies. This special issue focuses on new forms of spatialization in and [...]

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When water becomes ice

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

No sooner had the Thames acquired a sufficient consistency than booths, turnabouts, etc. were erected, and puppet-shows, wild beasts, etc. transported from every adjacent village. Many thousands of persons crossed upon the ice from Tower Wharf to the opposite shore. The watermen broke in the ice close to the shore and erected bridges with toll-bars [...]

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Urban Panic

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Where shall we run? Can Matt Tiessen’s desire paths be collective? Thanks to Pruned and Nicholas my attention was drawn to the increasing interest in simulating city life – in this case, Paul Torrens’ geosimulation work on predicting the actions of pedestrians and crowd behaviour. Maybe simulated crowds could help the depopulating [...]

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