ABSTRACT
Walking can be considered as a tool to experience, analyse and represent space in relation to subjectivity. Stalker's urban stroll across the terrains vagues celebrates the city's resistance to urbanisation. Their walking reveals the city as a process and concentrates aesthetic and ethical questions raised by contemporary society, such as how we can preserve life within the city, and how we can value what is not under our control. There is a history of walking as critical mass practice in political struggles, of which protest marches are a part, one of the most emblematic being the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of 28 August 1963. As suggested by the Situationists, it announces the possibility of an alternative urbanism that is more dynamic, more critical and grounded in everyday life. Some contemporary architectural practices are pursuing this, such as Stalker, an architects' collective in Rome, which was started in 1995 after the architects, as students, had occupied Rome University.
