Urban Exploration

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1. Mike Kohary wrote on: 4 August 9:50 am

   I especially like “Abandoned Places” – that guy is a pretty good photographer and he captures some haunting images. Good links; I like this stuff too.

2. Anonymous wrote on: 23 October 6:02 pm

   as featured in The Times review of ‘experimental tourism’ (13 September 2003)

   An Exeter Mis-Guide

   ISBN 0-9546130-0-7

   Created by urban explorers Wrights & Sites working with the visual artist Tony Weaver, An Exeter Mis-Guide is a disruption of city tour guides and a disruption of tourism. In Exeter. Anywhere. The Mis-Guide offers a model by which residents explore the urban space, choose their role, take the opportunity to ‘drift’. Rather than directing anyone where to go and what to see, the Mis-Guide explores ways of seeking cities within cities that no one has found yet; a forged passport to an ‘other’ city and a hyper-sensitised way of travelling the familiar one.

   The Mis-Guide combines three years of experiments, theoretical exploration of the psycho-geographic dérive, reverse archaeology and both older and more recent traditions of urban exploration, with generic ideas for disruptive exploration and accounts of actual ‘drifts’.

   An Exeter Mis-Guide was hailed by The Times of London as creating “‘Mis-guide tourism’ – the latest of all the forms of ‘experimental tourism’.”

   The book marks the culmination of a three-year project funded by the Local Heritage Initiative, Arts Council England, Exeter Arts Council and the Centre for Creative Enterprise and Participation.

   Further information, including sample pages and details of how to buy the book are available at http://www.mis-guide.com

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