Wandersmänner

"The ordinary practitioners of the city live 'down below', below the thresholds at which visibility begins. They walk - an elementary form of this experience of the city; they are walkers, Wandersmänner, whose bodies follow the thicks and thins of an urban 'text' they write without being able to read it."

"Their story begins on ground level, with footsteps. They are myriad, but do not compose a series. They cannot be counted because each unit has a qualitative character. [...] Their swarming mass is an innumberble collection of singularities. Their interwined paths give their shape to spaces. They weave places together. [...] They are not localized; it is rather they that spatialize.


Michel de Certeau "Walking in the City"

Photo: Air Milkay