The Architect-Walker: A-Mis-Guide; a co-authored, détourned artists’ guidebook drawing on disrupted walking practices to initiate playful debate, collaboration, intervention and spatial meaning-making.
- Submitting institution
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University of Exeter
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 23
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
- Exeter; but guidebook can be applied anywhere.
- Brief description of type
- A détourned artists’ guidebook, supported by contextual evidence.
- Open access status
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- Month
- June
- Year
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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3
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Research Process
Developed over multiple years and locations, The Architect-Walker (Wrights & Sites, 2018) is a coauthored (25% Hodge; lead editor Hodge) artists’ artefact/publication that draws on disrupted walking practices to initiate playful debate, collaboration, intervention and spatial meaning-making. Hodge's research and development process explored the transformative potential of transdisciplinary dialogues around place and mobility, extending the work of other urban
practitioners (e.g. architect Jan Gehl’s Life Between Buildings, 1971; Lydon & Garcia’s Tactical Urbanism, 2015), and sometimes developing new practical frameworks to investigate walking and architecture. Through détourning a guidebook, the work asks a number of questions:
• how might walking culture contribute to architecture?
• when does the walker become an architect?
• how small a change is required to tip the city from one state to another?
Research Insights
The work:
• employs a performance lens to establish the interconnection of walking and architecture;
• facilitates the user to explore the significance of the walker to the built environment, demonstrating the potential for walking to critique a top-down logic that prioritises planners and professional architects;
• challenges ideas of walking that value ephemerality and transience.
Dissemination
In addition to The Architect-Walker itself, key items of contextual evidence are included to demonstrate the research and dissemination processes that led to Hodge's individual contributions within the publication. They encompass:
• a two-day CPD workshop for Live Art Development Agency and Create Ireland (Hodge, 2016);
• an invited lecture within the Architecture Fund discussion series at Lithuania’s National Art Gallery (Hodge, 2015);
• acting as Scientific Board Member for a conference about walking and the city (Hodge, 2015);
• a companion event to Richard Long’s 'Time and Space' exhibition (co-authored with Wrights & Sites, 2015);
• a presentation and workshop for Plymouth Arts Centre (co-authored with Wrights & Sites, 2014).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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