This Is Microgeography

Friday, 2 November 2012

A Brief Microgeography of London

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I was doing other things in London today so I didn't have much time. Consequently, this is a very brief microgeographical  exploratio...
Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Serratia: The Painter

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Embellished Red Suction Cups   Shower Curtain Rothko  Self Portrait: a water colour by Serratia ...
Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Living On Vapours

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Living on Vapours: A tenacious black mould grows on a chemical store at the University of Surrey. It looks similar to Baudoinia com...
Tuesday, 23 October 2012

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   The Building That Listens: I came across this today, a building that has grown an ear. It drew me to Stelarc's work and...

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Obelisk Ecology. A complex microbial ecology on an otherwise lifeless obelisk made from slate. Birds have obviously used this as a perc...
Saturday, 28 July 2012

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A message obscured: An ancient ecology of lichens on a gravestone. As if time itself had crystalized onto the stone a...
Wednesday, 25 July 2012

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A Glyph for a Brief Life . This glyph mysteriously appeared within a thin layer of grime on my office window. I think ...
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What is Microgeography ?

Simon Park
The microbiological world is a vast domain of life occupied by organisms which are too small to be seen with the naked eye. Because of their diminutive size, its denizens are largely ignored, yet in terms of impact and numbers, they represent the predominate form of life on earth. In fact, in the familiar settings of our towns and cities, microorganisms have established thriving and complex ecologies. Microgeography, explores the relationship between an urban environment and its microbial and human inhabitants through informed observation, and via a variety of playful and inventive strategies. Its aim is to take pedestrians off their predictable macroscopic paths and jolt them into a new awareness of the urban microbiological landscape. This blog documents the places where the boundaries between the microcosm and macrocosm have become visible through the impact of our activities on the urban microbes. It also invites the observer to question the influence of human activity upon this urban microbiological landscape, and hopefully through this, to extrapolate the impact of our actions on to the more visible world beyond.
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