The aim of this paper is to make an argument for strategies and techniques devised by practitioners of walking-based arts as a potential resource for tour guides. The paper also reflects on recent developments in the area. Beginning with Michel de Certeau’s concept of walking the suggestion is for a complex formal-social approach. The paper argues for new models to understanding such spatial territories. Walking through these ‘lost’ territories, forced by necessity, the experience of self and space fits neither the preconception of urban space (based on the model of the historic core) nor the myth of the ‘natural’ or green suburban realm. The nature of this walk reveals shortcomings of these theories, in particular, the emphasis on aesthetic motivation or self-consciousness of the walk. It interrogates various theories and models that have brought together walking and space, ranging from the picturesque promenade to the situationist dérive. Using a walk from Mile End tube station to a residence alongside a canal this paper will highlight the characteristics of this middle territory. The first is to do with the kinds of territories which receive attention in historical and theoretical discourse and the second focuses on specific problems with available theories. This paper addresses two related problems concerning walking practices in urban environments. We contend that locative media artworks act upon distinctive ways to understand the mediation of technology in current placemaking practices. It also relates these theories to the study of different locative media artworks: Canal Accessible (2006), Bio Mapping (2004), Disappearing Places (2007), and Coffee Deposits (2010). This article therefore discusses contemporary theories on space related to media and technology with a specific focus on the conceptualization of the notion of place. Concretely, we want to examine how the uses of locative media in social-oriented artworks interact with people’s sense of place. From a critical point of view, pervasive computing, location-based applications, or, in other words, “locative media” provide an interesting framework to understand how these technologies relate to our understanding of space and place. These technologies have provided new forms of the representation of space as much as new forms of perception through tools and techniques used in land surveying, remote sensing, etc. In recent years, the vast increase in information flows has made it possible to instantly connect location-dependent information with physical spaces.
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