Walking through ruins as practice of re-signification territories

Starting from the perspective of Tim Edensor (2008), who describes the aesthetic-perceptual possibilities of walking through ruins, an attempt will be made here to respond to the twofold criticality of contemporary reality: on the one hand the political control over bodies that are inhibited in the act of walking, and on the other the progressive impoverishment of the perception of the body in the surrounding environment. The intention is to verify the possibility of walking through ruins as a practice of re-empowering the body and re-signifying territories, understood as a place of experimentation. The methodology is divided into two phases. First, the act of walking through ruins will be considered in opposition to tourist walking, thus highlighting the break with linear and sequential logic, and opposition to the mechanisms of oriented-consumption of places. Second, walking through ruins will be compared with the practice of parkour, thus demonstrating the possibility of creative, free and anarchic movement improvisation offered by this particular type of walking.