The Cloudspotting Booklet & Towards a Restful City
Following its launch event at Mayfest 2022, we have now made The Cloudspotting Booklet - a collection of stories, poems and conversations around the need to rest, gathered and recorded between 2019 and 2022 by Raquel Meseguer Zafe and published by No Bindings - available to purchase via the MAYK shop. Raquel says of the booklet:
“It is an invitation to go out into the city, find a place to rest, and experience a curated audio journey.
Originally created for the digital shows of A Crash Course in Cloudspotting, the booklet was "the stage that was missing during lockdown”. It created a sense of adventure. It acted as a portal into a different, more poetic space. The booklet has been re-designed to create the same sense of adventure, for a curated experience in the city, at a site of your choosing.
We are selling the booklet as part of the year long project Towards a Restful City. This project asks Bristol to extend a warm welcome to chronically ill communities by developing resting spaces, ‘horizontal events’ welcoming rest and horizontality, and asking venues and institutions to declare themselves ‘rest friendly’. The project aims to see how far it is possible to destabilise the etiquette of our public spaces, and shift the culture of a city.
The booklet is a tool to explore where you feel you can rest in the city and why, and where you can’t rest in the city and why. By going on this journey you will see and understand the barriers in our architecture in a new way, and you will be helping us to agitate the norm and make the shift Towards a Restful City.
We’d encourage you to share any photos or tips of good places to rest by tagging @CloudspottingUK and using the hashtag #RestfulCity.”
To find out more about Towards a Restful City visit the Unchartered Collective website, and head to the MAYK shop to purchase a copy of the booklet.