Lucey Heygate

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assessment exhibition

Boundless: the city through the eyes of the wanderer

To explore the city and its dwellings is to question how the latter is seen, as well as treated by the city dwellers. I have a personal will to show the hidden beauties, untold stories and overlooked details within these housing estates. However how can this be expressed and experienced? The answer comes from this project using film and photography of a journey through the city in the eyes of the wanderer (ie. the flâneur). The journey is composed of a series of walks done during the daytime and night time in sites/locations that reflect the city and its dwellings. Video and photographic documentation of the actions have been done to record the experimentation. Firstly, I set myself the role of the director and of the wanderer (personified by the figure in the documentation). Then I identified similarities and differences in the condition which an area is found, what I called the ‘state of the city’. The observations from the identification process led to categorise the states of the city into three groups: ruination, appropriation, transformation. These are represented as colour-coded tags. The action of tagging these states was also documented.

Heygate Estate (part II)

London 2011
Photgraphic documentation of an action

Lucey Way Estate (part II)

London 2011
Photgraphic documentation of an action

Lucey Way Estate

London 2011
Video documentation of an action



in a state of transformation

Pinheiros

São Paulo 2011
Video documentation of an action



in a hybrid state of ruination, appropriation and transformation