ABSTRACT

This paper explores the differences in the ways we orientate, adjust and create new trajectories as we walk, wander and wayfind. Drawing on lived experiences of walking together and separately through inner-city walking paths in Brisbane – Meanjin, we offer a conceptual exploration of the relationship of unplanned movement, spontaneity and affective registers of mobility. Discussing specific glimpses and accounts of our walking, and moments where this drifts into ‘wandering’, we reflect on the episodes of wandering as something more than, or different to, purposeful walking. These are complex processes of kinaesthetic, visual registers, imagination, conjecture and anticipation, responding to sensory cues from wayfinding design. We suggest that wandering creates unanticipated trajectories that orientate and adjust movements differentially in untying itself from direction, simultaneously taking inspiration from the abstracted and often colourful wayfinding and mobilities designs that feature in urban spaces. As a conceptual intervention, these meanderings reflect on research across mobilities, creative methods and geographical research, as a tool for doing research rather than methodological revision. We consider the role of movement in urban landscapes and the encounters we have with wayfinding and mobilities design.

摘要

本文探讨了我们在行走、徘徊和寻路时定位、调整和创造新轨迹的方式的差异。借鉴在布里斯班市中心步行道上一起和分开步行的生活经验 – Meanjin，我们对计划外的运动、自发性和移动的情感记录之间的关系进行了概念性探索。讨论我们行走的具体一瞥和记录，以及这种转变为“流浪”的时刻，我们将流浪的情节反思为不仅仅是有目的的步行，或者与有目的的步行不同。这些是动觉、视觉记录、想象、猜想和预期的复杂过程，对寻路设计的感官线索做出反应。我们建议，流浪创造出意料之外的轨迹，以不同的方式定位和调整运动，使其与方向分离，同时从城市空间中抽象且通常丰富多彩的寻路和机动性设计中汲取灵感。作为一种概念干预，这些曲折反映了跨流动性、创造性方法和地理研究的研究，将其作为进行研究而不是方法论修订的工具。我们考虑了运动在城市景观中的作用以及我们在寻路和机动性设计方面的遭遇。