"Created by California surfers who wanted to bring the lines of surfing onto asphalt, skateboarding soon outgrew its role as a simple alternative for flat days. It established itself as a practice that reads the city through a different logic, reinterpreting steps, handrails, walls, and interstitial spaces as possible lines, challenges, and opportunities. Over time, it evolved into a global urban culture, a way of inhabiting and transforming public space through movement."
"reinterpreting steps, handrails, walls, and interstitial spaces as possible lines, challenges, and opportunities. Over time, it evolved into a global urban culture, a way of inhabiting and transforming public space through movement. What was once marginal has become a catalyst for urban activation, community building, and new uses for overlooked spaces. At its core, skateboarding reveals how many cities coexist within the same city, depending on who moves through them and how each person is able to reinterpret their surroundings."
Skateboarding began as an attempt by California surfers to bring surfing lines onto asphalt and quickly exceeded its original pastime role. Skateboarding reads the city through a different spatial logic, turning steps, handrails, walls, and interstitial spaces into lines, challenges, and opportunities for movement. The practice evolved into a global urban culture and a mode of inhabiting and transforming public space through movement. Skateboarding shifted from the margins to become a catalyst for urban activation, community building, and inventive uses of overlooked spaces. Skateboarding exposes how multiple experiences of the same city coexist depending on how people move and reinterpret surroundings.
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