Birmingham wayfaring from Ira

Birmingham awakes with us

The landscape is not a surface to be crossed. To know is to penetrate the surface of the landscape. (Fleishman)

meL̻ РObserve-Wonder-Perceive at Sparkhill Area

Gettingt there – hopping into the right bus

All knowledge systems are intgrated laterally, not vertically. We know as we go from place to place. (Fleishman)

Human beings inhabit discursive worlds of culturally constructed significance. Through being inhabited rather than through its assimilation to a formal design specification, that the world becomes a meaningful environment for people. (Ingold)

– Empty streets, people are still sleeping.

– We are not like the people here.

– Almost every woman wears a scarf.

– The houses are so English.

– Weather is chilling.

– Engines are running.

How much of a home can someone build for you?

Is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun. (Geertz acc Ingold)

By what right do we conventionally identify the artificial with the “Man made”?  (Ingold)

Human beings construct the world by virtue of their own conseptions of the possibilities of being. And the possibilities are limited only by the power of the imagination. (Ingold)

I wonder who might live here

Settings and built environments are thought before they are built. (Ingold)

Ira

Lonneke

João

Zoey