Perhaps what you are looking for will be found in Tim Ingold's writing about the anthropology of the line,
e.g. Lines: a brief history
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lines-Brief-History-Tim-Ingold/dp/0415424275/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320508731&sr=1-3
or Ways of Walking: Ethnography and Practice on Foot (Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception)
Fiona Candy
see my projects at www.a-brand.co.uk
The Textile Society's Annual Conference, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 25-26
November 2011. 'Textile Collections and the Sharing of Knowledge.'
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Subject: word for walked path
There is a design concept or an architectural term that means 'the path that people walk, not the path they were supposed to walk. So as designers, we design a way for people to proceed through a space, but people as a whole wear their own path that is different' I've heard this used once and did not note it clearly, I'm wondering if people know this term. It may have been a french, german, or greek derived term.
it is not:
path
trace
cowpath
Jeremy Hunsinger
Communication Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech
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