ABSTRACT
The act of walking in cities and landscapes is not only a powerful counterpoint to the once predominant and now obsolete reassuring position of the Modernist architect and urbanist, but it is also a mode to tune into the strange humming of the city in the Anthropocene. The Gravesend-Broadness weather station had been consistently reporting the highest temperatures in Britain. Allegedly, its location was excessively subjected to external factors which ultimately were compromising the data coming from the weather station therefore deeming them ‘not objective’. Despite its scale, about 1.5km wide, the Gravesend peninsula can only be perceived once the tall grass disappears to reveal a series of gigantic high-voltage pylons traversing the landscape. Trapped between the invisible forces only sensed by measuring devices and the unmediated reality of colours, objects and matter of the peninsula, the Gravesend-Broadness weather station speaks of a shifting ground in which traditional coordinates and assumptions must be reconsidered before venturing back to London.
