A Generative Grammar of the Legs: a Mobile Conference on Walking Proposal by Kahve-Society, currently at a research and development stage.
http://www.kahve-house.com/society/walking/
The aim of this conference is to address the historical and current interest in walking, with particular attention to projects that involve walking as critical and creative activity. The event is timely in reflecting considerable recent attention and interest in walking through urban space (from the popular work of Janet Cardiff in the Whitechapel area to current 'generative psychogeography' practices organised over the web) and thus aims to provide an understanding of its historical context and to represent current debate on walking as embodied, analytical and aesthetic practice, beyond its function as means of getting from A to B. Walking is not addressed as a mode of transport but as a continuous process of the renewal of ideas (hence the title). Walking animates the production of text, hence Christophe Bailly refers to walking as 'grammaire generative de jambes' (generative grammar of the legs). Walking is an expansive metaphor
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