The city as an open book: the flâneur as reader and writer of hybrid space through artistic practice

Abstract

Starting from the premise that the city is a text, and walking a way of reading and writing, this article proposes the recovery of the figure of the modern flâneur to adapt it to later contexts, especially those generated by the use of technologies. In these contexts, the updating of the flâneur will allow us to tackle a set of contemporary artistic practices, where the creators assume their attitude to promote different readings in a palimpsest city. Finally, a personal project is exposed where a creative use of mobile technology is made to claim the presence on the streets as a way of enriching the urban experience. In this way, issues such as surveillance and control that are given by technology will be questioned through art, which uses the potential of locative media to propose a
poetic appropriation of space.