Anne GallowayDept. of Sociology and Anthropology

Carleton University

EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE WIRELESS CITYbecoming mobile / stable

Walking City

Ron Herron, Archigram, 1964

Continuous Conveyor Belt City “The Great Families move monthly into the houses just built, following the rhythm of the Grand Factory. The other citizens do their best and only those with little willpower and the laziest wait for four years before moving house. Luckily, it is not possible to live in the same house for more than four years after its construction; after this period, objects, accessories and the structure of the houses themselves decay, become unusable and soon after collapse. Only society's rejects, mad or insane individuals, still dare to wander amongst the ruins, the detritus and rubble that the city leaves behind it.”

Piero Frassinelli, Superstudio, 1971

Everyday life

historical and cross-cultural precedents

for tensions between mobility and stability

Everyday mobility

who gets to be free?

free to do what?

free to become what?

Everyday stability

who gets to be secure?

secure to do what?

secure to become what?

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