An Alternative Writing Retreat
We live surrounded by maps of every sort you can imagine, digital and on paper. What Three Words reduces the world to three random words, Garmin and Strava can make you feel good about how far and fast you can run. Map My Run – well, maps your run. The Ordnance Survey is still going strong…
It might be the first thing you see as you arrive, or the last thing before you depart. You might not notice it at all. It lurks, semi-submerged, at the far end of the platforms, only its top half ever exposed, marking its own corner at Navigation and Brunel Streets: NEWSTREETSTATIONSIGNALBOX…
Sometimes as he walked, taking long and meandering digressions down side streets and across squares, through underpasses and over raised walkways that spanned like triumphal arches the segments of silent motorway, the architect liked to think that the very formlessness of his wanderings was a kind of pattern in itself…