ABSTRACT
This chapter tells the story of a day’s walk to, around, and through the Louvre-Lens Gallery with my son. The narrative of the walk structures the chapter to engage with the material and affective understanding of movement creatively. The walking methodology allows us through experience to explore the political nature of how the Louvre-Lens Museum was designed to bring art to the working class. To unpack the aesthetic experience through a walking methodology, I look to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to explore the relational and affective experience of our interacting with the Louvre-Lens. Drawing on this investigation, the experience of walking-with is defined as a complex affective mode, an assemblage of action and inaction, intensity and ease that is charged with varying moods, speeds, and rhythms. In this critical and political approach, the world participates in the creative folds of the experience of architecture before an individual agency responds.
