Develop a walking arts project through local exploration, creative experimentation and exchange with an international group of artists, researchers, educators and cultural practitioners.

The October workshops continue the Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) learning programme. Building on the spring course, they provide a shared space to put ideas into practice, exchange approaches and develop connections between walking, place and community.

Working in your own surroundings and meeting online, you will explore how walking can generate artistic work, reveal local knowledge and bring different experiences into dialogue. Your contribution might take the form of a walking score, a sound piece, a map, a place-based narrative or a collective action.

The workshops combine facilitated online meetings with practical exploration in participants’ own environments. You will share interests and work in progress, try walking methods, discuss discoveries and challenges, and give and receive feedback.

The process connects individual inquiries with collaborative possibilities. We will consider how different practices can inform one another and how their methods and documentation can contribute to the WALC Living Lab & Archive.

Active participation matters: each person brings knowledge, questions and experience that help shape the group’s work.

Walking, attention and artistic inquiry
Use movement, observation, listening and walking scores to develop questions and creative responses to your surroundings.

Memory, storytelling and place
Explore how personal experiences, oral histories and sensory encounters reveal different layers of a place.
Mapping and locative media
Experiment with analogue and digital approaches to mapping, sound and place-based storytelling. Consider which tools best serve your artistic inquiry.

Community, care and participation
Reflect on whose experiences are represented, who can participate and how walking practices can respond to different bodies, circumstances and relationships with place.

Shared knowledge and the Living Lab & Archive
Document your process through text, sound, images, maps or instructions. Explore how a situated experience can become a resource for others while respecting the people and places involved.

Using the platform, you’ll publish your work, exchange feedback with peers, and situate your project within a broader ecology of practices.

You will learn how to document process as much as outcome — through text, sound, image, mapping and gesture — and how to translate a situated experience into a shared resource.
The workshops culminate in a collective showcase, where participants share projects, reflect together, and weave their contributions into the expanding global walking arts constellation.
Your walk becomes part of something larger.

The workshops welcome artists, researchers, educators, cultural workers and community practitioners interested in walking as a creative and collaborative practice.

They build on the earlier WALC sessions, whose recordings provide a resource for revisiting methods and discovering approaches relevant to your project.

Please join with a willingness to experiment, share your process and participate actively throughout the four-session cycle.