Tag Archives: Performance

Sensing the city; artists, embodiment and urban space #4

Posted on April 23, 2019 by

This is my final post on the Sensing the City Salon. My colleague, artist and academic researcher Dani Abulhawa spoke about her recent performance work ‘Feint Lines’ as well as earlier performance work. These pieces focus on issues of play in public … Continue reading →

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Sensing the city; artists, embodiment and urban space #2

Posted on March 27, 2019 by

My second post from the Sensing the City Salon focusses on Victoria Hunter’s presentation about her dance research work in the area of Raval in Barcelona, Spain. Where with a colleague Ana Moya Pellitero, she worked with a group of … Continue reading →

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Sensing the city; artists, embodiment and urban space #1

Posted on March 21, 2019 by

I recently attended an event entitled Sensing the City Salon, at Coventry University, part of the research programme which is ‘Documenting and mapping the tempers of urban place (a practice-based case study of the city of Coventry)’, jointly led Warwick … Continue reading →

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InspiralLondon Festival: re-imagining the built environment #1

Posted on February 27, 2017 by

This post kicks of a short series about InspiralLondon. This is an urban trail developed and led by artists, spiraling out from Kings Cross and ends at Gravesend, it enables the public to experience the city as one vast art … Continue reading →

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The 4×4 series on place-making and the built environment: On Love

Posted on July 21, 2016 by

The second of the 4×4 series of discussions in Manchester on 11.5.16 of this year had the theme of Love – asking how does love impact on our understanding of the built environment. Mick Timpson is an architect and yoga … Continue reading →

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Edge Hill station sound-place walk – investigating planning and movement practice

Posted on April 8, 2016 by

I’m part of a peer-to-peer sharing/learning network of artists/performers who meet in the North West, known as the Sunday School Network. In March we were hosted by Mary Pearson, whilst she is in residency at Metal’s space on Edge Hill station … Continue reading →

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Waymarking’s recent studies enhance understanding of making maps #2

Posted on February 28, 2015 by

Continuing with the mapping and map-making theme of my previous post, here are a couple of maps for a potential development site from a student urban design project on the Stretford Road, in Trafford. The first is of roads and … Continue reading →

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