Survey

single channel digital film

16:9, 7 mins 01 sec

2025

 

Using gaze tracking data and field recordings, Survey (2025) documents a dreamlike series of walks through a public recreation ground, a site of pending regeneration located in one of the most deprived areas of Cambridge (identified in 2020 as ‘the UK’s most unequal city’). Experienced through the eyes of women living and working nearby, the work invites viewers to consider the restorative qualities of their environment, who this space is for, and what it could be.

 

Filmed in collaboration with Minna Sunikka-Blank (Professor of Architecture and Environmental Policy, University of Cambridge) and working with David Pearson (Professor of Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Anglia Ruskin University), the project builds on walking as a research method, using wearable technology to capture personal moments and involuntary responses within an unpredictable urban green space. 

 

Local collaborators include Amina Begum, Nita Bhaumik, Anna Boldina, Gunes Egribayir, Fulya Ceran, Dina Gusejnova, Boguslawa Kaplan, Marika Mancino, Ekaterina Nedeva, and Svetlana Stoyanchev. 

 

This project was funded by AHSS SHAPE Hub, University of Cambridge, and produced in partnership with Collusion UK.