To dwell is a verb, meaning to live in or at a specified place, or to linger. In Old English, it can also mean to lead astray and delay.

'Liberty Walking' is a project that explores the idea of walking as the primary mode of dwelling in a particular place. The act of walking carves a memory in our muscles and mind, constructing a complex map of where we live. This memory palace then enables us to walk without navigational assistance, to take liberties with the city and go against what it prescribes. To take shortcuts, alternative routes, to create our own desire lines, to 'dwell'.

This project begins with a toolkit of elements that serve as walking markers throughout a site in Goole, a small industrial port town northeast of England. Referencing texts from Richard Sennett’s Building and Dwelling (2018), Charles Moore’s Chambers of a Memory Palace (1994), as well as Stephen Bann’s analytical texts on landscapes, each element is a representation of a walk analysed. They are then placed within the context of a bothy: a play between scale, light and shadow. The initial study then manifests itself in a masterplan for Goole.