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Your Space Or Mine

WALK 10: maps

This walk with Alisa Oleva invited participants to explore counter mapping and how we see and feel the city through our own ways of mapping it.

 

How did you get there that day? What route did you take and what did you notice? What was worth putting on a map? Could you walk in London using the map of Paris? What would a map of that neighbourhood have looked like? Participants were invited to draw a shape on the map of London and try to walk it. The walk began at The CarWash in Shoreditch, 1 Quaker Street, London, E1 6SZ, before heading into the streets to make maps of smells and textures. Attendees mapped their own walks and attempted to walk each other’s maps, mapped the city with their own bodies, and decided what was worth including and how they wanted to name the streets.

WALK: our series of free monthly urban art walks, hosted by performance and walking artist Alisa Oleva is part of our Your Space Or Mine project.

10.03.25

Words by BUILDHOLLYWOOD

Make a map of how you got here today.

As you walk this street make a map of it on a long thin strip of paper.

Tune in. Warm up your eyes. Look at something in the distance. Then at something close to you. Keep alternating. Listen to the sound from a very far distance. Then to the one near you. Keep alternating.

Blindfolded, let your partner lead you on a walk along the straight street. At the end of the street you are given a marker to make a graffiti of your journey on the wall. Swap with your partner.

Go on a walk focusing on the sounds around you and making a sound map of this place.

Using a transparent piece of paper add something you would like to be in this place.

As you walk, collect traces, photos and objects on your way to create a collage of this walk at the end.

Map this place through rubbings and imprints on a piece of a paper.

Credits:
Videos: Tara Fatehi
Photographs and videos: Fenia Kotsopoulou

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