Envisioning Networked Urban Mobilities by Aslak Aamot Kjaerulff Sven Kesselring Peter Peters Kevin Hannam

Author:Aslak Aamot Kjaerulff,Sven Kesselring,Peter Peters,Kevin Hannam
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2017-10-05T00:00:00+00:00

In Andrew Richardson’s work The Ghostly Language of Ancient Earth, extracts from Wordsworth’s The Prelude are mapped onto a three-dimensional interactive map of the landscape of Grasmere and the surrounding area (see Figure 8.3). The interactive screen version of the map allows viewers to explore the text-landscape, to view it from different angles and perspectives, or even to follow, to walk along, a specific ‘path’ of words. These word paths are directly linked to the shape of Wordsworth’s poetry, as the number and length of words in each verse line determines the path’s change of direction. In re-presenting the contours of the landscape Wordsworth wrote about, Richardson returns the poet’s words literally and metaphorically to the topography that was so much a part of the poet’s life and work. In turn, Richardson allows us to explore the contours of this landscape through touch-screen. We are able to track our own path through the topographical lines of the map, whilst simultaneously following the poetic lines of Wordsworth’s most famous literary masterpiece. In so doing, our fingers take us for a walk both literally and imaginatively.

Work by Mike Collier relates directly to walks undertaken ‘in the footsteps’ of others, including Bashō and Wordsworth, in Kurabane and Nikko in Japan following short sections of Bashō’s route in the ‘Narrow Road to the Deep North’ as well as many of the same Lake District routes described by Dorothy Wordsworth in her journals (see Figure 8.4). Writing in the catalogue for the exhibition, Carol McKay (2014: 75) explains that in his

creative reworking, Collier has deliberately selected journal entries that describe favourite routes Dorothy followed—and ones he has walked a number of times: an ascent of Fairfield foiled by weather, followed two days later by a walk ‘upon Helvellyn, glorious, glorious sights’.

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