Walking Technologically

Ingold, Gill (rhythm, entrainment), Pink: walking with video My Fancy Cameras Parisas walks …EMPIRICAL STUFF HERE; walking interviews?

“We perceive, in short, not from a fixed point but along what Gibson calls a ‘path of observation’, a continuous itinerary of movement (Gibson 1979: 195–197). But if perception is thus a function of movement, then what we perceive must, at least in part, depend on how we move. Locomotion, not cognition, must be the starting point for the study of perceptual activity (Ingold 2000a: 166). Or more strictly, cognition should not be set off from locomotion, along the lines of a division between head and heels, since walking is itself a form of circumambulatory knowing. Once this is recognised, a whole new field of inquiry is opened up, concerning the ways in which our knowledge of the environment is altered by techniques of footwork and by the many and varied devices that we attach to the feet in order to enhance their effectiveness in specific tasks and conditions. Examples are almost too numerous to mention: think of skis, skates and snowshoes; running shoes and football boots;14 stirrups and pedals; and of course the flippers of the underwater diver. Nor should we ignore hand-held or underarm devices that aid locomotion such as walking sticks, crutches and the oars of the rowing boat.” (Ingold, 2007: 46)

Our bodies are eminent sensors, extraordinarily mobile and capable of networking... (Sicart, 2014, play matters)