Walking as a reading of the territory and the clothesline as a narrative symbol

Abstract

This project proposes a visual narrative of everyday heritage, constructed thru walking, urban drifting, and artistic cartography as contemporary methodologies for reading the territory. Walking becomes an esthetic and analytical act that allows for the identification of affections, tensions, and cultural relationships inscribed in the city. On this walk, the clothesline emerges as a symbol of intangible heritage, capable of narrating ways of life, social bonds, and forms of inhabiting that often remain invisible. Its presence on balconies and facades acts as a public interface, situated on the threshold between the private and the collective.

Thru photographic documentation in Bari, Naples, and Barcelona, the project generates an affective cartography that visually encodes these social practices, understood here as living heritage. The images, taken from various viewpoints and compositions, allow us to observe how each territory constructs its own everyday esthetic, marked by specific identities, memories, and cultural configurations.

The visual coding derived from these practices constitutes the point of convergence with digital narrative, offering a system of reading, interpretation, and circulation that transcends the photographic medium. Thus, this work proposes a methodology that combines sensitive observation, urban drift, and artistic experimentation, demonstrating that the everyday can be reinterpreted as a living archive, a narrative resource, and a form of cultural heritage susceptible to preservation.