William Blake’s “London”(1794) and Covid-19 London (2020): Discovering spaces for death in the city’s history

This text is on a unique, trans-disciplinary project (Architecture, Literature, Mathematics) which weaves the voices of three academics to associate manifestations of death in William Blake’s time with those prevalent in the years of lockdowns (2020-21). It explores spaces traditionally associated with death via a reading of Blake’s ‘London’ (1794). The project, which proposes a methodology with which to access the rich palimpsest of the city, documents a collaborative practice of collective place/text reading that relies on translation as a mode of communication. It explores the visual and visionary dimensions of urban space in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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