The Mobile Imagination
Walking-mapping- narrating Landscape Futures
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.64166/r9g2j832Keywords:
Walking, mapping, narrative, design, urban landscape, Broadway, mobile fieldworkAbstract
This article considers the continued agency of the body in movement as an active means of reading and reimagining the urban landscape. Using a design study, which reconsiders the gridded island of Manhattan through a walk down Broadway, the article introduces an activist landscape design methodology where field walking as exploratory mapping yields multilinear narratives to generate landscape futures. The article begins with a description of this study, then transitions into its broader situation within and implications for landscape architectural methodology.
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