A Walk About Rome: Tactics for Mapping the Urban Periphery
2010; Routledge; Volume: 15; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/13264821003629220
ISSN1755-0475
Autores Tópico(s)Law in Society and Culture
ResumoAbstract The paper explores a history of walking-based strategies for mapping the city. For architects, residents and other stakeholders, an embodied experience of a marginalized urban area may be essential to understanding and ethical intervention. As a case study, the paper looks at the Italy-based Stalker collective's Giro di Roma (1995), a walk around Rome's periphery, and their practice of the transurbance, a critical mode of walking. Drawing on a history of critical and aesthetic walking, including the Situationist International's derive, Stalker proposes the transurbance as a means of mapping the unique spatial and social conditions of the contemporary city. Acknowledgements The images of the work of the Stalker collective are held in copyright by Stalker, and are reproduced here with their permission. The author extends her thanks to Francesco Careri. Notes 1. Lorenzo Romito, "Stalker", in Peter Lang and T. Miller (eds.), Suburban Discipline, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997, p. 140. 2. Peter Lang, "Stalker on Location", in Karen Franck and Quentin Stevens (eds.), Loose Space: Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life, 193–209, New York: Routledge, 2007, p. 196. 3. Francesco Careri, Walkscapes, ed. Daniela Colafranceschi, Barcelona: Rosello, 2002, p. 178. 4. Charles Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Life (1863)", in Francis Frascina and Charles Harrison (eds.), Modern Art and Modernism: A Critical Anthology, New York: Harper and Row, 1982, p. 23. 5. Baudelaire, "Painter of Modern Life", p. 26. 6. Careri, Walkscapes, p. 88. 7. Guy Debord, "Theorie De La Derive (1956)", in Libero Andreotti and Xavier Costa (eds.), Theory of the Derive and Other Situationist Writings on the City, trans. Libero Andreotti, Barcelona: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barecelona/ACTAR, 1958. 8. Tom McDonough, "Situationist Space", in Tom McDonough (ed.), Guy Debord and the Situationist International, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002, p. 255. 9. The Naked City was published by the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus in 1957, while the group was in the process of joining with the French Lettrist Society (of which Debord was also a member) and the English Psychogeograhical Society to form the SI. 10. Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, Donald Nicholson (trans.), Malden, Oxford and Victoria: Editions Anthropos, 1974, 1991, p. 355. 11. Guy Tiberghien, "Introduction: Nomad City", in Daniela Colafranceschi, Walkscapes, Barcelona: Rosello, 2002, p. 11. Tiberghien makes reference to Walter Benjamin, "Paris, Capital of the 19th Century (1935)", New Left Review 48 (March–April 1968): 77–88. 12. Michel De Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, Steven Rendall (trans.), Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1988, p. 96. 13. De Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, p. 92. 14. Contrary to conventional definitions, De Certeau defines "place" as a measurable quantity of space, and "space" as a milieu of human experience. 15. Stalker, "Manifesto: Stalker Through the Actual Territories", Stalker: Laboratorio d'are urbana, http://digilander.libero.it/stalkerlab/tarkowsky/manifesto/manifesting.htm (accessed 7 April 2009). 16. Michel Foucault, "Of Other Spaces (1967)", Diacritics, 16, Spring (1986): 22–27. 17. Foucault, "Of Other Spaces (1967)", pp. 22–27. 18. Careri, Walkscapes, 44. Careri describes the enunciative power of walking in the "songlines" of the indigenous peoples who have mapped Australia through a system of path-stories, each of which is connected to a song. 19. Stalker, ''Manifesto: Stalker Through the Actual Territories'', available at http://digilander.libero.it/stalkerlab/tarkowsky/manifesto/manifesting.htm (accessed 7 April 2007). 20. Careri, Walkscapes, p. 23. 21. De Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, p. 124. 22. Italo Calvino, Le Citta Invisibili, Verona: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1993. 23. Brian Jarvis, Postmodern Cartographies, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998, p. 7. 24. Stalker, ''Manifesto: Stalker Through the Actual Territories'', http://digilander.libero.it/stalkerlab/tarkowsky/manifesto/manifesting.htm (accessed 7 April 2007). 25. Jarvis notes that Jameson's attention to urban space is part of a trend in leftist critical theory that introduces geographical dimensions into historical thought. This "spatial turn" acknowledges that landscapes "are not simply the passive backdrop to significant socio-historical action, rather they are a vital product and determinant of that action". Jarvis, Postmodern Cartographies, p. 6. 26. Jameson, "Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism", p. 47. 27. Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2003. 28. Georg Simmel, ''The Berlin Trade Exhibition (1886)'', in Ben Highmore (ed.), The Everday Life Reader, 297–300, London, New York: Routledge, 2002, p. 299. 29. Similarly, Jarvis notes that the American wilderness, a sublime unknown for the colonialists, was legible to the indigenous peoples. "The multiplicity of facets to the … geographical imagination cannot be underestimated, both in terms of who perceives its spaces and which spaces its chooses to see." Jarvis, Postmodern Cartographies, p. 8. 30. Fredric Jameson, ''Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism'', in The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Durham: Duke University Press, 1991, p. 55. 31. Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1960. 32. Jonathon Hale, "Cognitive Mapping: New York vs Philadelphia", in Neil Leach (ed.), The Hieroglyphics of Space, London: Routledge, 2002, p. 33. 33. Fredric Jameson, "Cognitive Mapping", in C. Nelson and L. Grossberg (eds.), Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, Chicago: MIT Press, 1988, p. 364. 34. Jarvis, Postmodern Cartographies, p. 42. 35. Hale, "Cognitive Mapping", p. 36. 36. Careri, Walkscapes, p. 184. 37. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Brian Massumi, Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. 38. Careri and Romito, 2005. Cited in Lang, "Stalker on Location", p. 297. 39. Kim Dovey and Kasama Polakit, "Urban Slippage", in Karen Franck and Quentin Stevens (eds.), Loose Space: Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life, New York: Routledge, 2007, p. 115. 40. Franco Purini, "The Decline of Rome", in Lorenzo Pignatti (ed.), Roma XX, Rome and Waterloo: University of Waterloo, 2000, p. 113. 41. Stalker, ''Manifesto: Stalker Through the Actual Territories'', http://digilander.libero.it/stalkerlab/tarkowsky/manifesto/manifesting.htm (accessed 7 April 2007). 42. Caren Kaplan (ed.), Questions of Travel, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996, p. 88. 43. Stalker, ''Manifesto: Stalker Through the Actual Territories'', http://digilander.libero.it/stalkerlab/tarkowsky/manifesto/manifesting.htm (accessed 7 April 2007). 44. Francesco Careri, "Transborderline", Architectural Design, 71, no. 3 (2001): 87–91. For more documentation of Stalker and Osservatorio Nomade projects, see also Stalker, Osservatorio Nomade/Stalker, www.osservatorionomade.net; and Stalker: Laboratorio d'Arte Urbana, www.stalkerlab.it. 45. For a longer discussion of the Kurdish and Albanian settlements at Campo Baorio, see Lang, "Stalker on Location". 46. The author participated in the Tiber transurbance in July 2007. 47. Careri, Walkscapes, p. 183. 48. "Corviale Immaginare: On/Stalker", AU: Architecture and Urbanism, no. 420 (2005): 81–82.
Referência(s)