Two Walks from West to East (2014)

Two Walks From West to East was a commission as part of the LUCIDE conference 'The Future of the Multilingual City' at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The project sought to offer a visual interpretation of the material established in the LUCIDE London research report as a means to offer new and alternate ways of exploring multilingual citizenship in London.

The two walks were routed from west to east – one from Southall to Bayswater, and the other from Whitechapel to Woolwich – aligning the route to the flows and eddies of language in London parallel to the course of the Thames. The experiential map attempted to chart a new London vernacular, both in terms of dialect and architecture. One documenting where the layers of language overheard in the city become part of its physical fabric. This study was by no means comprehensive or exhaustive. It represented a certain route on certain days at a certain time.

www.two-walks.co.uk - I’ve just noticed that this website no longer works. If I’d been any sort of decent archiver of my own work then I’d have screengrabs of it. But I’m not and I didn’t so will have to make do with the original images from the walks, below.