ABSTRACT
This essay is concerned with the intersection of lived time, time as represented and urban space – especially around everyday practice. As such it follows in a long pedigree of works addressing time and space in the city. However, I want to try and rethink some of the better known approaches to offer a less stable version of the everyday, and through this a sense of practice as an activity creating timespace not time-space as some matrix within which activity occurs. The essay thus addresses the paradox that Stewart identifies where the ‘temporality of everyday life is marked by an irony which is its own creation, for this temporality is held to be ongoing and non-reversible and, at the same time characterized by repetition and predictability’ (1984: 14). I want to look both at stability but also at the emergence of new possibilities through everyday temporality.
