Nightsniffing walks

Illustration of three people on an outside walk. One, holding a bat detector, has spotted a bat. Another holds a datasniffer and is walking towards something. The last looks at a building in the difference.

Map element in illustration derived from: Map tiles by Stamen Design, CC BY 3.0 — Map data © OpenStreetMap

The Nightsniffing Walks were the culmination of the project. Creating a route at each location required iterative map making and many nights of scouting, locating where the bats frequent, where planning activity feels heaviest, and assessing safety and accessibility.

What resulted from such planning and scouting is a partial composition of space, a sketch to be filled out by its many participants – not just the humans, but the datasniffers, heterodynes, cars, trees, databases, streetlights, foxes, terraces and of course the bats.

A zoomed out image of an onto-epistemogram diagram.

Diagram of a Nightsniffing Walk

A still from video documentation of a Nightsniffing Walk.

Video of the Brixton walk

Partial map of one walking route.

Routes