Step one
Choose a week.
Each one a different city, a different rhythm of work and rest, a different set of words for the same human problems.
03 · Anatolia
○ In research
SQUARE · HAGIA SOPHIA, morning
Byzantine Constantinople
c. 950 CE“A city that calls itself the world.”
04 · Kyoto
○ In research
STREET · KYOTO, cherry blossom
“Twelve layers of silk and a thousand poems.”
05 · Moscow
○ In research
BOULEVARD · MOSCOW, winter
Soviet Union, Late Stalin
1949“Queues, denunciations, and an apartment for nine.”
06 · Wyoming Territory
○ In research
MAIN STREET · BOOMTOWN, noon
“A continent of fences being built around you.”
07 · Southwark
○ In research
MARKET · SOUTHWARK, morning
“Plague, theatre, and a queen who survived everything.”
08 · Round City
○ In research
SOUK · BAGHDAD, midday
“Paper, astronomy, and a caliph's library.”
Also on the bench
Mughal Agra · Song-dynasty Kaifeng · Mali under Mansa Musa · Carthaginian Sicily