When the Romans laid out a new settlement they would watch for the rising and falling sun, marking a line in the ground between the two. This line, the Decumanus, is the primary axis from which further atrial roads were established. Our impulse to script space is a way in which we seek to order the world around us. The football pitch can be seen as a link back to these early inscriptions - lines in the ground that establish a territory and demark a shift in order. Within the space of these lines are tacit rules relating to how we interact and identify with one another. They inform a kind of social and ritual choreography. From a Western perspective, these lines in the ground can be said to denote the birth of the social order, the moment where the public realm became the space in which we seek our shared identity. On the pitch and around the pitch, Practice Architecture invites us to enact our togetherness. In collaboration with Futebol Clube Vale Formoso we will play out a ritual, condensing time, remembering, being with the land in this, the most formal of gardens.