Walking Cities: London featuring chapter by Dr Sharon Kivland (Fine Art, SHU) launches Wednesday 15 March

Walking Cities: London launches at the Showroom Gallery on Wednesday 15 March, and features a chapter titled Freud in London by Sheffield Hallam Reader of Fine Art, Dr Sharon Kivland.

The book launches at:
6:30PM – 8:00PM
The Show Room
63 Penfold Street
London
NW8 8PQ

Through bringing together a new interdisciplinary field of artists, writers, architects, musicians, human geographers and philosophers Walking Cities: London considers how a city walk informs and triggers new processes of making, thinking, researching and communicating. In particular, the book examines how the city contains narratives, knowledge and contested materialities that are best accessed through the act of walking. Ultimately, Walking Cities: London seeks to understand the wider significance of changing geographies to generate critical questions and creative perspectives for navigating the social and political impact of rapid urban change.

‘Finally, a book on walking London that extends beyond the well-trodden Victorian streets of the West and East end, and up onto the city of the twentieth century via the walkways of the Aylesbury Estate and the Barbican, and along its infrastructure out to Gravesend and the edge of the Grand Union Canal.’
Owen Hatherley

Other contributors: Rosana Antoli, Sean Ashton, Rut Blees-Luxemburg, Amy Blier-Carruthers, Roberto Bottazzi, David Dernie, Duncan Jeffs, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Adam Kaasa, Ahuvia Kahane, Simon King, Nayan Kulkarni, Douglas Murphy, Jean-Luc Nancy, Laura Oldfield Ford, Steve Pile, Peter Sheppard Skærved, Phil Smith, Tom Spooner, Peter St. John, Jo Stockham and Richard Wentworth.

Camberwell Press is a collaborative studio based in London with various strands of activity including: research, publishing, design and mentoring.

Dr Sharon Kivland is a Reader of Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University.

Image credit: Walking Cities: London – Edited by Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Simon King, Amy Blier-Carruthers and Roberto Bottazzi.