Our New Year’s Resolution in 2013 was to get better acquainted with social media, GPS and smartphone apps that will assist us in gaining a better understanding of the neighbourhoods, places and streets around us. So we embarked on an “Expedition in to the Digital Unknown” in February from Highbury & Islington tube station to […]
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Weaving wellbeing into neighbourhoods
Rethinking Cities presents a Weaving Wellbeing Walkshops. The Walkshop (mobile workshop) involve a 90 minute walkabout with prompts to engage participants in discussion and observation, followed by an hour long debriefing session with local experts during which shared learning is encouraged. You’ll explore how an existing neighbourhood can be refurbished to promote residents’ wellbeing and […]
Walking Sideways
Andrew Stuck from Rethinking Cities & the Museum of Walking, producer of Talking Walking, has been invited to take part in the month-long Sideways 2012 Festival – a 334km trek across Belgium west to east int eh compnay of 30 walking artists. Sideways 2012 is the brainchild of Andy Vandyvere of Trage wegen – literally […]
Squatting and Common Land in Hackney
Squatting “unlawfully occupy an uninhabited building or settle on a piece of land” OED Not far from the news at any time over the last couple of years with Occupy and Dale Farm the most prominent, squatting has played a pivotal role in the cultural milieu of Hackney and other London boroughs. Ownership of buildings and […]
Undergrowth
Join south London artist, Rachel Gomme on “Undergrowth” an investigation in to the natural growth amid the concrete, brick and asphalt of two of south London’s neighbourhoods. It provides a chance to reconnect with the natural within the city, and with the human body as part of nature. From carefully planted trees and well-maintained flower […]
Ruskin Walks in summer 2012
As a finale to the Chelsea Garden Show Fringe Festival how about venturing to the Ruskin Theatre Garden in Croydon, to join East Dulwich artist Martin Fidler and Andrew Stuck, of Rethinking Cities on a Ruskin Walk at 3.00pm on Sunday 10 June? The Ruskin Theatre Garden is to be found on a development site […]
Look up London in May
As a participant in a Look Up London walk, you get the chance to see London’s Skyline in close up. Every participant gets their hands on a pair of binoculars and are offered the best vantage points to view the roof tops and building facades of London’s iconic built heritage. First trialled in the City […]
Pop in Debates – the High Street
Exclusive debates run by Rethinking Cities and University of Greenwich Organised by Andrew Stuck and Dr Noha Nasser Our next debate will take place at the Deptford Lounge with future debates taking place at other high street locations across London.Deptford has claims to London’s most diverse shopping street, offering three different markets and a range […]
Planning for Public Health in Lambeth
Under the theme of “mental wellbeing and public space” members of the Lambeth Wellbeing Network undertook two exploratory walkabouts and a series of participatory activities at their annual conference that focussed on how to bring borough planners and NHS public health professionals together to embed wellbeing in regenerating Lambeth’s built environment. Facilitated by Andrew Stuck […]
JR meets QR
John Ruskin would have been intrigued by the discoveries made on the Clerkenwell Cobbles walk led by Martin Fidler, creator of the Ruskin Walk, for not only were the origins of granite setts revealed but also a digital code or two. Andrew Stuck, from Rethinking Cities and Martin have devised a series of four Ruskin […]