Walking With Dragons: Performance, the Sensorial, and Urban Change in Vancouver, Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT This article discusses the “Dragon Walk” project, a series of guided walks and participatory art‐based community gatherings purposefully located in one of Vancouver's major redevelopment landscapes, the Cambie Corridor. Adopting a “cats' cradle” approach to thinking and writing, I follow Dragon Walk's suggestion that we look at urban change from a circuitous route—one informed by performative, imaginative, and sensuous practices. I argue that by activating sensorial sites of encounters between human and more‐than‐human city inhabitants, Dragon Walk reveals some of the paradoxes of urban growth and points out a chasm between what is being envisioned in city projects and what redevelopment looks and feels like on the ground. Dragon Walk shows that so far, redevelopment on this major corridor has not been able to create more affordable, inclusive, or vibrant urban forms and urges us to pay attention to the stalled times of ruination and housing precarity. In this process, it questions an understanding of urban change modeled on growth, forward temporality, and the city as a human‐centered built environment.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".