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Tag Archives: Walking
Manchester revisited: the familiar and the unfamiliar #2
Walking around the Northern Quarter, I was reminded of recent conversations I’ve had with dance artist-academics Vicky Hunter, Amy Voris and Emma Meehan and Natalie Garrett-Brown – about recognising and acknowledging our emotional connections to place(s). Vicky described how we … Continue reading
Manchester revisited: the familiar and the unfamiliar #1
This next two posts are a photo document of my first walk around the city of Manchester after lock-down. From Piccadilly Station, through the Northern Quarter, back through the Piccadilly area. It was fascinating to walk around an area, that … Continue reading
Bradford city centre – architectural delights #2
Following on from the previous post, on Bradford city centre and high street. I present some more images of Bradford city centre and it’s public realm. I’m hoping to have time in the next few months to think more about … Continue reading
Bradford city centre – architectural delights #1
I have recently visited Bradford city centre on a number of occasions. I’ve been working with partner organisations Wur Bradford and Bradford Civic Society to host an event to begin to explore solutions to city centre issues from the bottom … Continue reading
Tagged Architecture, Bradford, Buildings, Business, city, Cityscape, History, Photography, Planning, Public Realm, regeneration, Shops, Urban, Urban Walking, Urbanism, Walking, Yorkshire
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Sensing the city; artists, embodiment and urban space #3
This is third post from the Sensing the City Salon is based on Sara Wookey’s presentation. Sara presented a series of works she undertook whilst living in Los Angeles between 2010 and 2014. A core theme was walking, which people experience very … Continue reading
Exploring and photographing green space / green infrastructure Levenshulme #2
Here are few more photographs of my walk through Highfield Country Park at the New Year. Image credits: Sarah Spanton
Exploring and photographing green space / green infrastructure in Levenshulme #1
At the New Year, I spent sometime further exploring my neighbourhood Levenshulme, Manchester – with a walk through Highfield Country Park, a local nature reserve. This is a great example of a green space which volunteer group Friends of Highfield … Continue reading
Levenshulme Close Up #1
Having become a resident of Levenshulme recently, I’m going to undertake series of blog posts over the next year or so, that look at the neighbourhood in close-up, in detail, at textures, patterns and surfaces. I saw these collages on … Continue reading
Tagged Art, Cityscape, Culture, Levenshulme, Manchester, Photography, The City, Urban, Urban Walking, Walking
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InspiralLondon – re-imagining the built environment #4
This is the fourth and final post from InspiralLondon Festival, held in September 2016. Another presentation at the Friday event was French architect Julie de Muer. Julie and her two colleagues Baptiste Lanaspeze and Paul-Herve Lavessiere came over to the festival … Continue reading
InspiralLondon – re-imagining the built environment #3
Several artists spoke at InspiralLondon’s Friday event, including Alberto Duman and Claire Qualmann. Artist Alberto Duman described his recent Leverhulme Trust Funded project ‘Music for Master planning’. It focusses on the area of Newham, London – which he described as … Continue reading
Tagged Art, Canning Town, city, CPUL, Culture, Foraging, London, Music, Newham, Stratford, Urban, Urban development, Urban Walking, Walking
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