Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art have invited Andrew Stuck’s Museum of Walking, part of Rethinking Cities, to run ‘Reclaiming the city’ a ‘walkshop’ on Saturday 25 April from 2-4.15pm from the gallery and in the surrounding neighbourhoods. Havana comes to Hackney? Join us on this inspirational walkshop to ‘reclaim the city’ and bring a […]
Stalking London’s Trees
It is estimated that about 20 per cent of London is covered in trees. The Mayor has a target to increase tree cover by a further 5 per cent, to 25 percent, by 2025………Welcome to London Tree Week where you get the opportunity to celebrate the importance and wonder of the capital’s trees. Rethinking Cities are […]
Beyond The Red Line
Rethinking Cities Ltd in collaboration with MFAtech Ltd have been shortlisted as Finalists in the 2015 Ordnance Survey and Land Registry’s GeoVation Housing Challenge. Their proposal, “Beyond the Red Line” is a compelling proposal to answer the Challenge set: “How can we enable people in Britain to live in better places?” Beyond the Red Line […]
Light Dark: New England Quarter Brighton
Light & Dark Action research walkshops 3.45pm – 7.30pm Tuesday 10 March, 2015 New England Quarter, Brighton Light & Dark: New England Quarter, Brighton is one of a series of action research half day events in 4 different locations (types of places) between London & Brighton before and after dark, to establish a simple and […]
Visualising Townscape
Visualising Townscape Visualising Townscape was a 150 minute celebratory participatory walk, in honour of Gordon Cullen, author of ‘Townscape‘, in which participants were invited to sketch, photograph and record the changing urban townscape, revealed as we walked on a route from St James’ Park, via Parliament Square and St James’ Square to the University of […]
Crick in the neck?
Crick in the neck? Look up London! – London is full of surprises. One of the biggest surprises is how much fascinating design, art and detail there is above our line of sight that we have never noticed. On a Look Up London walk, you will see London’s Skyline in ‘close up’. Every participant gets […]
Walking the Woods and the Water
Walking the woods and the water Have you been inspired by a piece of travel writing to try a similar endeavour of your own, but found circumstance or lack of courage has knocked you off your stride? Not so Nick Hunt, who as a teenager, read Patrick Leigh Fermor’s account of a walk across Europe. […]
Meeting Halfway
Meeting half way Jess Allen is an aerial dancer, walking artist and researcher in landscape and rural economies, with one PhD ‘in the bag’ and another well on its way. Like all the interviews, undertaken for Talking Walking, their producer, Andrew Stuck tries to meet his interviewee ‘half way’ – unbeknownst to him when he […]
Talking Townscape
A walk to mark the life and influence of Gordon Cullen, architect, illustrator and visual urbanist, born in August 1914. Writing in the Architectural Review, Gordon Cullen encapsulated the concept of visual coherence and organisation of our urban environment, under the theme of ‘townscape’. He wrote a seminal book with the title ‘Townscape’ published in […]
Where Ruskin walked in Shoreditch
To mark the anniversary of John Ruskin’s birthday, Martin Fidler and Andrew Stuck organised a Ruskin Walk in Shoreditch on Saturday 8 February 2014. It may have rained a little but it didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of some 20 people on the look out for ways in which John Ruskin’s life and work had […]