Comments on: ProHobo 2.0: Temporary Autonomous Zones of Urban Exploration

By: weird facts

weird facts — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:02:04 +0000

I grabbed a few lines from your website and stuck it on ours about weird facts, is that OK with you?

By: Place Hacking » Blog Archive » 2010 Retrospect

Place Hacking » Blog Archive » 2010 Retrospect — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 21:10:08 +0000

[...] found myself in Sweden, reflecting on a year of impossible explorations, culminating in our massive 7-day urban camping adventure across 4 European countries and dozens of derelict spaces all the way to East Germany. I never [...]

By: Bradley Garrett

Bradley Garrett — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:10:37 +0000

Of course you may Patrick and thank you for the interest! If you need any more help, details, or additional references, please contact me: digicado [at] gmail.com

Also, have a look at my video article on the topic if you have a chance: http://vimeo.com/5366045

By: Patrick Potter

Patrick Potter — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:48:30 +0000

I’d like to quote this article in a book about Urban Exploration that i’m currently writing if I may. Please get back to me as the deadline is very soon. BTW I love your angle. Live without dead time.

By: pause

pause — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:22:49 +0000

Very interesting and stimulating post. This is what stroke me also in Bey’s ideas on taz. The lived experience you get from doing things that you “souldn’t”, breaking boundaries and at the same time creating your temporary physical and social-cultural world. A world which then you share and also you share with it the feeling of being free. Because spaces is more than anything lived spaces – spatial resistance is physical, social, cultural, political… is about life itself.
Thanks

By: Shreen

Shreen — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:35:13 +0000

I did not read this for one of the three likely reasons you cited. I read this post because it articulates what I love so much about urban exploration. It’s akin to a form of worship.

“I suggest urban exploration as a method of subversion; a state of “delirious & obsessive play” (9) that you knew when you were young. I suggest regression and even retardation of our boundary knowledge as “our feral angels demand that we trespass, for they only manifest themselves on forbidden grounds” (22). Remember how it felt when you were young and all signs and people telling you what to do were merely suggestions? They still are. Embrace your inner child again…”

Beautiful. :]