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Feel(in)g the city. Αγγίζοντας τον ψυχισμό του περιπλανητή στην Παλιά Πόλη Χανίων

Kolokythakou Theodora-Danai, Ragavani Eleni, Stavrakaki Marilena

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The scope of this thesis is the arousal of people's emotions through their experience in the surrounding urban scenery. This urban scenery does exist; it is being reinforced and enriched with a meaningful content capable to influence someone's disposition, participation and needs.After looking for those notions which connect people, the city and their movement in it, we clarified the notion "wanderer", while exploring congnate notions such as: stroller, excursionist, flaneur, to wander, wandering. Through this research we decided to define the notion "wanderer" as someone walking without a cause; someone without a determined course or someone who diverted from it. The wanderer observes the urban scenery, thoroughly or not. Sometimes, he/she remains distant, while others he/she participates in what happens around. His/her movement is influenced by the city's characteristics, such as the architecture, the history, the decoration, the scenery, the light, the sounds, the climate, people, the textures etc. Additionally, the wanderer's phychology, such as the desires, the disposition, the feelings and the needs, are crucial.The "wandering" takes place in the Old Town of Chania; a -space and time- palimpsest which is "extrovert" - as far as the social and commercial places of strolling and leisure time are concerned - and at the same time, "introvert" - as for the hidden neighborhoods into the complex, medieval structure. This "introversion" points out the" unseen dynamics" of the Old Town of Chania; the trigger of the wandering in it.Eventually, what we do is dredging the Old Town's "unseen dynamics" up , by forming spotted spatial "episodes" (i.e. interventions), so as to arouse the wanderer's emotions.

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