Amy Knight-Archer Mobility Blog

 Please see attached my findings for the mobility blog. 

I have decided to base my initial study on the integration of boundaries and how the canal systems became one of the first major forms of mobility in Stoke. 

Amy Knight-Archer

Linear Condition

I can't recall ever going to Stoke on Trent but as with a lot of post-industrial cities I'm expecting to see an abundance of neglected and underused spaces that are the by-product of the creation of various pieces of infrastructure designed to connect its polycentric model–roads, railway, and canals that cut off communities from one another.

"What if:" have carried out a number of interesting small scale projects to try and address this peri-urban condition.

In the meantime I've managed some further reading of Felix Guattari's work – its pretty hard going but in collaboration with Gilles Deleuze he proposes some useful theories about the linear condition and superlinearity [although more in the context of philiosophy and information than the built environment].  It poses the question how can linearity be broken apart to make it connective instead of unidirectional? I hope to post some more on this before Monday's deadline.

On a slightly different tangent you might find this Wired article interesting.  It's a photographic record of the journey of one Bit of data from Southport to LA.

Dave Holland