City guiding and the production of time-spaces

The attempt of this paper is to investigate the practice of guiding tourists through the city. The study shows that guiding is more than just informing of a crowd. Instead, guiding is viewed as a performance of playful, but yet serious animations of known and unknown elements from now and then, here and there, inside and outside, and as creative compositions of time-spaces. When the guide operates in, points at places, and performs places, the group produces places through co-optive making in moments of shared group experience. Guiding, as a practice of representing, making and co-making, also allows for displacements, connections, intersections and hybrids of different time-spaces