18 Sep Hunting Graffities & Tagging Cities > Urban Exploration Photographic Portfolio

The way that we observe an #urban environment means we come across #graffiti which could be considered to be an unconscious kind of exploration, whereas walking randomly we can #hunt #graffiti as a real way to #tag #cities. We will not forget the #cities that have been tattooed in our skin. Different city-locations are tagged in this post as an uncounscious urban ethnographic exploration random exercise: #Reykjavik, #London, #Oxford, #Liverpool, #Manchester, #Glasgow, #Dublin, #Copenhagen, #Malmö,…

The selection of the city is directly linked with my PostDoctoral research project: http://www.cityregions.org

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• The idea of this post came across also unconcious after reading the great chapter titled 8.- Tagging the city: Graffiti practice and transcultural communication in the book by Prof. Michael Keith, Director of COMPAS at the University of Oxford (UK): After the Cosmopolitan? Multicultural cities and the future of racism (2005), Routledge.

• It should be also mentioned the coming up Dr Bradley L Garrett’s new book published by Verso and titled: Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City.

#Reykjavik by @icalzada

#Glasgow by @karmelebar & @agusote

#Dublin #Smithfield district by @icalzada

#Copenhagen #CPH #Norebro district by @icalzada

#London #underground #Picadilly #Line by @icalzada

#London #Southbank by @icalzada

#Copenhagen #CPH #free #town #Christiania by @icalzada

#Oxford #Mandela by @icalzada

#Oxford #Jericho #neighbourhood by @icalzada

#London #ShepperdBush #underground by @icalzada

#Malmö #Oresund #CityRegion #Sweden by @icalzada

#Dublin #Liffey #River #Quay by @icalzada

#Dublin #Smithfield #district by @icalzada

#Oxford #UK #cowley #road by @icalzada

#Manchester #Northern #Quarter #district by @icalzada

#Manchester #Northern #Quarter #district by @icalzada

#Manchester #Northern #Quarter #District by @icalzada

#London #Candem #Town #district by @icalzada

#London #Candem #Town #district by @icalzada

#London #DoReMeFaSoLaSi #underground #line by @icalzada

#London #Soreditch #Hackney #district by @icalzada

#Liverpool #Albert #Docklands #district by @icalzada

#Oxford #Jericho #neighbourhood by @icalzada

#Manchester #centre by @icalzada

#London #Soreditch #Hackney #district by @icalzada

#London #Soreditch #Hackney #district by @icalzada

#Oxford #Observatory #Road #Jericho #Neighbourhood by @icalzada

#somewhere in #London…
Keep on #hunting
Keep on #tagging

“There is only one way to #understand another #culture. Living it.” (Høeg 2005)

#comparative #research #fieldwork