Radical Walks

20/08/2024

Next Radical Walk is on Thursday 12 September.

'The Secret Life of the Office'

Meet 5.30pm in the churchyard of St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate

An exploration of money, capital, high-rise buildings and low-life labour through the City of London

08/08/2024

Promotional film for a radical walk on Saturday 17 August: 'Moneybags must be so lucky'

Details in the link below.

Promotional film for a radical walk, Moneybags must be so lucky

01/08/2024

August edition of the Radical Walks newsletter

Based on a paragraph from Marx's Capital the walk will be through Mayfair. It will start at the Dorchester Hotel and if you arrive early do go inside and have a look. It's usually possible to get into the main lobby and reception area.

23/07/2024

Next Radical Walk is in Folkestone on Sunday 28th July, meet 2pm, the bandstand on the Leas.

A gentle jaunt around Folkestone exploring its radical history

12/07/2024

Here are some of the themes that will be covered on the 'Marx & Engels in Soho' Radical Walk on Sunday 21 July....and some histories of people, events and buildings

A dozen sheets of paper, printed with double-spacing. It’s easier to read. It is a collection of streets in Soho, and Dean Street in particular. A list of dates of buildings and their uses, t…

01/07/2024

Radical Walks newsletter for July....two walks coming up:

Sunday 21 - Marx & Engels in Soho
Sunday 28 - Radical Folkestone

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29/06/2024

The next Radical Walk is on Sunday 21 July

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/913098872307?aff=oddtdtcreator

22/06/2024

More writing about cities, class and art

The Death of Orpheus, Jean Delville, 1893 ‘The plan never works out’, my friend the dust cart driver said, and laughed, knowingly. His plan is to return home to Africa and farm maize. B…

22/06/2024

The next Radical Walk is Thursday 27 June.

'Housing is more than houses'

It's part of the London Festival of Architecture and the details are here:

A perambulation around St Pancras exploring housing through the ideas of Catherine Bauer, Josef Frank, Christopher Alexander, and others.

26/05/2024

Here's a trailer for a talk on Weds 19th June

Red Vienna: Housing Re-imagined - link to details in the comment below

A short trailer to advertise a talk, 'Red Vienna - Housing Re-Imagined'

26/05/2024

This is the third (of three) pieces based on a recent visit to Paris

Paris appears suddenly as if the train has travelled through a gate. Before we reached the gate, it was a landscape of rolling hills covered with grass and wheat and cheerful bunches of trees and s…

26/05/2024

The next Radical Walk is on Saturday 1 June.

'Housing is more than houses', partly based on Catherine Bauer's book 'Modern Housing' (with some Christopher Alexander, John Berger, Josef Frank, Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky, Marx and other people added in).

A perambulation around St Pancras exploring housing through the ideas of Catherine Bauer, Josef Frank, Christopher Alexander, and others.

15/05/2024

This is tomorrow (Thursday 16 May) starts 5.30pm at Museum of Docklands.

A walk through Canary Wharf to explore metaphors and possible solutions to the question of capital

07/05/2024

Two walks and a talk that are coming up as part of the London Festival of Architecture

There are two walks as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Both are called 'Housing is more than houses' and are based on the ideas of Catherine Bauer, Josef Frank, Christopher Alexander and others. And a talk on Red Vienna.

07/05/2024

Reading the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts in Paris as part of the preparation for 'Canary Wharf & Marx's Literary Style'

Paris rain. It gets everywhere. Even deep under the city in the Line 1 Metro there’s rain. On the umbrellas of those who’ve just got into the carriage. It drips onto the floor. The rain…

03/05/2024

There's a talk on Red Vienna as part of the London Festival of Architecture

During the 1920s, the social democratic city council of Vienna built 64,000 homes. The talk will explore different aspects of this project.

03/05/2024

There are two Radical Walks as part of the London Festival of Architecture. It's the same walk, but on different days. Here's the first on Saturday 1st June.

A perambulation around St Pancras exploring housing through the ideas of Catherine Bauer, Josef Frank, Christopher Alexander, and others.

30/04/2024

May day greetings from Paris...and the Radical Walks newsletter

This is part of the preparation for the Radical Walk on Thursday 16 May, Canary Wharf & Marx's Literary Style. The walk will explore how Dockland became Docklands, a move from shipping to offices, the role of the money industry and how large buildings are accumulations of labour and nodes of capital...

20/04/2024

Here's a trailer for the Radical Walk on Thursday 16 May:

Canary Wharf & Marx's Literary Style

More details, and booking in the comment below

A short trailer to advertise the Radical Walk, 'Canary Wharf & Marx's Literary Style'. To find out more about the walk, and to book a place: https://www.even...

19/04/2024

Reading EP Thompson's 'The Making of the English Working Class' in a weaver's cottage in Norwich.

A few quite casual things started to come together. I’d been reading EP Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class in preparation for a Radical Walk with the title of Praed Stre…

01/04/2024

April edition of the monthly Radical Walks newsletter.

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24/03/2024

https://mailchi.mp/92de1cc6e650/radical-walks-newsletter-march-2024

The first Radical Walk of 2024 will be Praed Street & the Liberty Tree, an exploration of Capital and Class from Paddington Basin to the Edgeware Road. It's on Thursday 18th April from 6pm - 8pm. For more details including meeting place and how to book. On Thursday 16 May, 5.30pm - 7.30pm  Canary W...

27/02/2024

Here's the Radical Walks for 2024

03/02/2024

The offices and studios of GB News don't advertise their presence.

Even the receptionist was suspicious and hostile. Receptionists are usually friendly; part of the selling of their labour power involves a presentation of affected labour.

One of the funders of GB News is Legatum, a private investment fund, based in Dubai. The United Arab Emirates is one of the world's fastest growing tax havens.

GB News is keen to insist that bigots can say what they like. But few can say what they like in the UAE where there are many sanctions on real freedom of speech, democratic rights, the right of assembly and the rights of opposition.

Perhaps the UAE too needs a Liberty Tree. But that won't be planted by GB News.

If your curious to discover more, come along to the Radical Walk, 'Praed Street & the Liberty Tree' on Thursday 18 April.

See link below for details.

Walking through the revolving doors of a identikit London office block (the basic components are concrete, glass and steel, rearranged in a small number of patterns), out into the cold, wet and dar…