Project Pedestrian

Tag: Women Walking

  • Pedestrian Pride

    Pedestrian Pride

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    Mark Wihak
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    The Pedestrian Pride Project is based in Columbus, Missouri, USA, a city with a population around 130,000. “Founded by community advocate and walking commuter McKenzie Ortiz, Pedestrian Pride is rooted in the belief that the stories of those who walk and roll daily should be at the forefront of urban advocacy. ” Most of the…

  • Phone zombies, drifters, speed bumps

    Phone zombies, drifters, speed bumps

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    Mark Wihak
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    Lauren Elkin, whose book Flâneuse: Women Walk the City is profiled on the Resources page, contributed a radio essay to the BBC on the types of pedestrians one encounters on urban sidewalks: “Elkin reckons that the way people walk, their gait, is a signifier. It also tells us something about ourselves as we watch people…

  • Laura Pfeifer – Pedestrian

    Laura Pfeifer – Pedestrian

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    Mark Wihak
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    I really enjoyed talking with Laura about her passion for cities and walking. I first met Laura around 2010 at a Jane’s Walk, which Laura brought to Regina and organised even after she moved away from the city. Laura’s Regina Urban Ecology blog and related activities, which ran from 2009-2015, documented really interesting discussions and…

  • Flânerie

    Flânerie

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    Mark Wihak
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    I was first introduced to the word flâneur and the ideas behind it in grad school. In learning about it, I realised in many ways flânerie described behaviour I’d be pursuing for some time: leisurely strolling through cities, observing the variety of activities an urban environment offers. It’s one of the things I most enjoy…

  • Tasha Alexson – Pedestrian

    Tasha Alexson – Pedestrian

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    Mark Wihak
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    I met Tash a couple years ago when she took an introductory filmmaking course I was teaching. In that class she made a lovely short film that really captured the sense of a flâneuse, a woman exploring a city on foot. When I started working on Project Pedestrian, I knew Tash was one of the…

  • Text Walking

    Text Walking

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    Mark Wihak
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    Among the influences on Project Pedestrian is the Text Walking project of Calgary-based artist Baco Ohama, where she gathers text found while walking (signs, graffiti, posters) and uses them as sources for poetry, artist books, postcards, and videos. Baco and I met in the early 1990s in Montreal when we were both doing MFAs at…