+921HeritageTalks: Politics of Walking and Witnessing

Pakistan Community Chowk Centre

+921HeritageTalks, a project of Pakistan Chowk Community Center (PCCC), is a series of discussions with panelists on heritage preservation.

+921HeritageTalks

+921HeritageTalks, a project of Pakistan Chowk Community Center (PCCC), founded by Arch. Marvi Mazhar, is a series of discussions with panelists related to their field of expertise on the topic of heritage and its preservation.

Walking is inherently a political act that places an individual in an active conversation and engagement with their spatial surroundings. The idea of walking in a heritage zone, the lived experience of witnessing the deterioration and decay of buildings while walking in and around them opens up a venue of experience that you cannot find in theoretical works or museums. It stimulates all our senses with sounds, smells, textures, and other physical qualities of the heritage site.

 The artifacts of heritage are no longer housed in white rooms or behind glass boxes but they are experienced in highly activated living and breathing spaces - in narrow streets and cramped up bazaars. Heritage walks help us connect with elements of heritage in a holistic way by expanding our understanding of what heritage means. One must then ask how heritage walks challenge the binary categories of what constitutes heritage, and help us in looking for more local and grounded methods of heritage preservation?
What new meanings do we give to these long-forgotten heritage sites and their surrounding areas when we engage with them? As De Certeau says in his essay “Walking In the City” that urban walking gives a new meaning to spaces and streets which originally weren’t assigned to them. He goes further and terms walking as an act of resistance. In this sense, then one must ask how do heritage walks contest dominant and hegemonic historical or cultural narratives?

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