This page is part of my doctoral research on Times Square
Before the dissertation had a shape, it had a problem: how to approach a bounded place that keeps multiplying in front of your eyes. This subsection gathers the early moves that led me to Times Square after its pedestrianization, and the slow crafting of a method that could stay close to movements and flows rather than forcing a single storyline.
Here I collect the seeds of the project’s form—notes on orientation, early field impulses, and the decision to treat the thesis as a kamal: a navigational device made of an instruction table and cartographic elements, meant to enable different routes through the same dense terrain.
Espacios de Encuentro
This is a set of three working papers written in 2020 as part of my ongoing ethnography in and with Times Square. Each paper follows everyday encounters, movements, and micro-situations to map an unstable geography of simultaneity and multiplicity—treating the square as a navigational problem and a learning method. Access.