The walkshop takes its inspiration from (but claims no affiliation with) Adam Greenfield and Nurri Kim’s booklet “Systems/Layers”:
“A walkshop is a new kind of learning experience that’s equal parts urban walking tour, group discussion, and spontaneous exploration.
“As we’ve presented them, in cities like Toronto, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Oulu and Wellington, walkshops are a half-day event, held in two parts.
The first portion is dedicated to a slow and considered walk through a reasonably dense and built-up section of the city at hand. This is followed by a get-together in which participants gather over food and drink to unpack and discuss what they’ve just experienced.”
The theme of Systems/Layers is what Greenfield and Kim describe as “Networked Urbanism”:
“We live in an age in which the form of cities, the ways in which we experience them, and the choices they present us with are all in the process of profound and rapid change, driven by the presence of networked information-processing systems everywhere around us.
“Mobile phones, CCTV cameras, building-scale displays, embedded sensors, and remotely-operated barriers are all part of this transformation. Between them, these systems superimpose a layer of information on top of the physical bricks and paths of the city, and this is increasingly a place where control over space and behaviour can be exerted.”
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