About
Walkography is a research practice that aims to make the perception of territory explicit. Conventional readings of territory and the phenomenological approach have rarely found a way to coexist and feed one another.
Walkography emerges from exactly this intention: walking is the method, the device the instrument, the cartographies the language through which to construct a situated narrative.
Each walk is documented through a self-built, open-source device that records the path it crosses, together with whatever the walk and its surroundings make measurable. This material becomes the basis of narrative cartographies, where the representation of territory integrates subjective experience and spatial information, opening new readings of landscape and urban space. These cartographies can be used for the collective analysis of a territory through shared dérives, and to build an atlas of perceived territories.
Walkography is therefore not only a device but a practice that lives across four planes, none subordinate to the others.
Theory: the texts and reflections that accompany the device and the atlas.
Laboratory: the open development of the instrument: assembly, code, everything needed to build your own.
Atlas: where the cartographies live, the results of the dérives.
Funzone: news, outreach, and the quarterly Fanzine to download, assemble and circulate wherever you see fit.
BIO I am Giulio Mari, architect (Marostica, 1983). I trained at IUAV in Venice and ETSAB in Barcelona, and have lived in Barcelona since 2009, working mainly on public space projects. Walking has been at the heart of my research since 2006, when I began to treat it as a method rather than a way of getting around. In the twenty years since, it has stayed there: a way of knowing, a tool for reading the territory, a way of inhabiting space before transforming it. Walkography is where that long inquiry finally took shape.