Actions for Walking

Contributed by rita soromenho

Setting out on a journey without defined destination I walk across the city's back gardens and wastelands picking flowers.

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Contributed by justincarter

Produce, distribute and store ice cream using solar power.

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Contributed by jaekyung

The Gulag project is about the spatial and visibility control of political place.

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Contributed by Adrian Blackwell

Public water closet (PWC) detourns the basic function of the two-way mirror, which is to provide systems of power a safe location from which to survey a population to be controlled.

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Contributed by jaekyung

Originally inspired by the system, called "Shinmoon-go" from the early 15th century Korea, reporting to the king unfair treatment of subjects by authorities, this project uses the drum wearer as a

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Contributed by patsybrel

DORMIR DEBOUT est un événement qui a animé l'espace de la Nuit blanche 2009.

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Contributed by jaekyung

Reflection and camouflage
A mirror reflects the image of surroundings. A mirror also conceals the human body or the object it is attached to.

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Contributed by jgcaiced

proyecto*kraft is a hybrid in the sense that it is colaborative and it is individual too, it is serious and it's not

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Contributed by Cabracega

Imagine what might be like to rediscover blindfolded the borough of Alfama: the narrow streets, the smell of grilled sardines, the sound of a Fado that can be heard from afar and so many others sen

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Contributed by Scirocco Plot

"All Along the Watchtower" consists of a mobile foldable tower as a viewing point and non-permanent residence to interact with the cityscape and people.

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Contributed by mi-rimeter

This is the game of tag with city as the field in which people wear the t-shirts on which the QR codes are printed.

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Contributed by Scirocco Plot

Skinny Bag® is a psychosomatic aid and remedy, that is to be carried as a rucksack. I case of distress it protects you from hyperstimulation by slipping into its transparent interior.

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Contributed by SerraGlia

The modern museum is the grave of contemporary art:
contemporary art must invade the City, to stimulate the citizen and to become more appreciated.

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Contributed by audiotopie

Parcours tactiles :

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Contributed by Pied la Biche

The Wikibivouac is a collaborative map which reappropriates space to create new uses of the city.

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Contributed by anon-y-mouse

2 series of arrows, painted the same colour, in a straight line, spaced at random, on an urban sidewalk; each serie in an opposite direction. The series would be one or two blocks long.

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Contributed by MoralesMaucout

The Metroscope is a service design project for la RATP (parisian subway and bus company) imagined by students at ENSCI - Les Ateliers.

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Contributed by CD

“Câble” is the fruit of an intuitive investigation of the layer structure founded in and by public space (its districts, its ways, its passers by, its architectonic).

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Contributed by kaching

“People watching” is something that happens unavoidably in urban (and most other) settings, yet we’re all a little bit shy about getting caught.

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Contributed by phil

In an effort to bring a sense of the hollidays to the office building facing this frontyard, a simple walk in a pile of snow creates a snowman invisible to pedestrians, but visible to those working

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Contributed by kpoupore

Snow creates a tabula rasa on which people are called to create a new network of spatialities.

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Contributed by mi-rimeter

Tokyo’s landscape is made up of signs, we can say. The letters and characters we see while we walk in the city, is deeply embedded in our minds. We cut off the letters, and collect it.

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Contributed by ARTISTIC_AGITATORS

another way to look at a city: by zooming-in.
Travel in colors and architectural shapes.

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Contributed by dnosborn

What do people stop for and how can you convince them to stop for something else? Urbanites are constantly commuting, only pausing to pay for something or to get to someplace else.

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Contributed by Nick Tobier

A back-mounted contraption features 2 fans and a generator, enabling the operator to walk through hot city streets and offer a cool breeze to pedestrians.

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Contributed by andyjw86

Transforming a narrow alley into an outdoor cinema, students Andrew Wolking, Rachel Isacoff, and Hannah Dewhirst created an exhibition meant to challenge and cross certain boundaries through a crea

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Contributed by PUBLICARCHITECT...

UN-USEFUL exercises require to transform a real existent building, site, space, etc. into something astonishing, with lightness and poetry, in order to make people full of wonder [wonder-full].

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Contributed by frankie america

Dressed in an artificial “bush” suit I would pose as urban vegetation on public sidewalks waiting for unknowing pedestrians to scare.

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Contributed by PUBLICARCHITECT...

UN-USEFUL exercises require to transform a real existent building, site, space, etc. into something astonishing, with lightness and poetry, in order to make people full of wonder [wonder-full].

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Contributed by sergio_clavijo

A simple recording of dust and hair balls in an underground tunnel serves as the action. Buildings have a peculiar way to evidence the presence of thresholds.

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Contributed by PUBLICARCHITECT...

UN-USEFUL exercises require to transform a real existent building, site, space, etc. into something astonishing, with lightness and poetry, in order to make people full of wonder [wonder-full].

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Contributed by justincarter

Go in search of underground streams.
When you find them, let others know they are there.

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© Los Angeles Urban Rangers

Although California‘s constitution guarantees public access to the state’s beaches up to the mean high-tide line, this right is often thwarted by property owners with misleading signs, illegal fenc

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From Institute of Applied Autonomy

Map-generation software that provides users with their “of least surveillance” between two locations in New York City, iSee Manhattan uses data collected by groups such as the New York Civil Libert

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Courtesy of Surveillance Camera Players

Surveillance Camera Players highlight the invasive presence of publicly and privately owned surveillance cameras in cities.

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© Recetas Urbanas

Project with Lights was a strategy for catalyzing community interest in a piece of land that had been approved for development without much consultation.

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An educational device that replicates a portion of Detroit’s residential architecture and urban layout through a system of photographs mounted on metal frames.

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© Jonathan David Marston

A catalogue of anti-sitting devices installed to keep New Yorkers on their feet and off anything they could possibly sit on. Iron-and-steel spikes and railings grow like ivy, covering banisters, wi

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A high security “Red Zone” created with 4-metre-tall barricades in the centre of Genoa to protect the leaders of the Group of Eight during their 2001 summit.

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© 2008 Danilo Verpa

A street-cleaning project involving the construction of rubble piles in an underpass connecting Paulo VI Avenue to Doctor Arnaldo Avenue in São Paulo, preventing homeless people from sleeping there

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A security device that emits a high-pitched pulse audible only to people under twenty-five.

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© Michael Rakowitz

Michael Rakowitz’s (P)LOT project is a car-shaped tent that restores parking spaces to pedestrians as street-side camping.

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Guerrilla

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Pedestrian procession with mobile zebra pedestrian crossing, Gerhard Lang, Helmut Aebischer, Ruth Jureczek, 1993 (Photo Angela Siever / Courtesy of University of Kassel, Germany)

A DIY answer to the question: how can pedestrians legally cross a street wherever they want to, and not only at the whim of traffic planners?

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© Martin Reis

Toronto’s Urban Repair Squad grew tired of waiting for municipal authorities to create adequate bicycle lanes and began to install their own DIY infrastructure, encouraging others to take action ag

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The Austrian civil engineer Hermann Knoflacher developed the Gehzeug, or walkmobile, in 1975 to allow a pedestrian to approximate the amount of space taken by a motorist.

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Plan Smarter

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© Christian Nold

A Galvanic Skin Response unit with a GPS transmitter that records the physiological arousal of its wearer on the principal of a lie detector, the Bio Mapping apparatus records user responses as the

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Plan Smarter

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Can automobiles, bicycles, and pedestrians share streets without the mediation of traffic lights, road signs, and designated lanes? Planning proposals initiated by the Space movement in a variety o

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Sunday at overpass, São Paulo, 26 February, 2006. ©João Sodré

The elevated Minhocão, or “big worm,” expressway was cut through central São Paulo in 1971.

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A strike called by unions and student groups in support of the opposition political party turned into a protest against the dismissal of the governors of Venezuela’s state oil corporations.

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Crowd Power

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© Crowd Farm, James Thomas and Thaddeus Jusczyk

Energy-producing blocks embedded under public spaces such as train stations and plazas that convert pedestrian congestion into electric current.

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Gulia Melloni

A study of the capacity of nightclubs to convert to environmentally sustainable practices, the Sustainable Dance Club uses a system of floor tiles that generate energy when compressed to power ligh

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© Emili Padrós

Conceptual and experimental designs for a personal energy harvester that charges portable electronic devices by capturing the energy of footsteps.

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