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Walking Arts and Local Communities
An online course for walking and creating together
Embark on a transformative journey with our Walking Arts & Local Communities online course. Designed for artists, creators, educators, cultural workers and innovators, this course invites you to explore walking as an artistic practice, a community tool, and an ecological medium rooted in place, movement, and shared experience.This is not about learning about walking. It’s about walking as learning.
Why join?
Discover walking as a powerful creative force Explore how walking becomes a tool for storytelling, mapping, participation, and social & ecological engagement shaping new ways of relating to landscape, community, and the more-than-human.
Learn with leading practitioners and thinkers Be guided by internationally recognised walking artists, researchers and cultural practitioners working across walking arts, locative media, community-based and participatory practices.
Join a vibrant international network Connect with peers across Europe and beyond. Take part in shared exercises, workshops and collaborative projects that activate place, movement and collective inquiry.
Access exclusive resources and tools Gain entry to curated modules, audio-visual content and a dedicated digital platform that supports experimentation, exchange and long-term engagement.
Join the course and walk your practice forward.
What you will explore
Walking as research & practice Learn how sound-walks, mapping, storytelling and embodied movement can be used as research tools — to question, re-imagine and transform our relationships with landscape and community.
Local to global perspectives Ground your work in place-based knowledge and community values, while engaging with trans-European and global dialogues on walking arts, ecology and future-making.
Participation, creation & commons Work within co-creative formats, share your practice with others, and contribute to a growing living archive of walking arts and commons-based approaches.
Digital & physical convergence Expand walking arts into digital, hybrid and site-specific formats through online platforms, collaborative tools and locative media experiments.
Who is this course for?
This course is ideal for artists, cultural professionals, community and environmental practitioners, curators, educators and students who are curious about walking as an experimental, relational and socially engaged mode of art-making and learning. If you walk, question, create, and care, this course is for you.
How it works
Flexible, online and self-paced The course is fully online and designed to adapt to your rhythm and availability. Each module includes:
Video presentations
Readings and references
Interactive tasks and prompts
Peer-to-peer exchange
Invitations to walk, reflect and create Upon completion, you will receive:
Entry into the WALC network, opening pathways to future residencies, workshops and collaborations
Start walking with a community, not alone.
Anthology of Walking Arts
Foundations of Walking Arts & the Commons
Discover how walking opens relational, ecological and communal ways of knowing. This module introduces the history of walking arts, explores the idea of the commons (physical and digital), and frames walking as an act of co-creation and collective inquiry. You will begin mapping your own walking practice into a shared living commons.
Mapping, Storytelling & Place-based Knowledge
Learn how participatory mapping, embodied storytelling and locative media transform walking into a tool for uncovering local knowledge, layered histories and shared imaginaries. Through analogue and digital methods, you’ll turn walking traces into collective narratives.
Walking in the Digital Age
Digital Commons & Hybrid Walking Practices
Explore how walking extends into digital space. Experiment with hybrid formats — mobile explorations, online platforms and collaborative mapping — and reflect on walking arts as open, shared digital resources.
Creative Methodologies & Future-Making
Move from documentation to intervention. Work with sensory walking, speculative practices, collective narratives and site-specific actions to imagine ecological and communal futures.
From Local to Global — Nodes and Networks
Discover how local walking initiatives become nodes in a global constellation. Engage with case studies, platforms and shared infrastructures, and begin shaping your own walking-arts project within the wider network.
WALC collaborative map and web-app
Project Lab & Living Archive
In the final module, you will bring everything together in a hands-on project. You will: * Map a walk * Capture multisensory material * Transform walks in stories * Contribute to the network’s living archive of walking arts
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 course culminates 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.
INSTRUCTORS & SPEAKERS
A group of experts walking artists and researchers
will guide you along 15 online sessions.
Yannis Ziogas
Katerina Pistola
Fred Adam
The Digital Turn: GPS, Mapping, and Locative Storytelling, gamification.
Walking, Sound, and Augmented Space
Walking as Commons: Art as Network and Future making
Geert Vermeire
The Digital Turn: GPS, Mapping, and Locative Storytelling, gamification.
Walking, Sound, and Augmented Space
Walking as Commons: Art as Network and Future making
INVITED SPEAKERS
Molly Wagner (Australia) / AWA - Australian Walking Artists
Walking as a form of art
Melinda Hunt (Australia) / AWA - Australian Walking Artists
Walking as a form of art
Clementine Butler-Gallie (UK) / the Rerouting project
Walking Art in urban environments
Tamara Witschge (Netherlands) / Creative Media for Social Change
Walking, Sound, and Augmented Space
Nick Verouden (Netherlands) / Creative Media for Social Change
Walking, Sound, and Augmented Space
JOIN THIS FREE ONLINE COURSE
Be part of the next wave of walking arts and local communities. Walk, learn and create — and imagine a new future for art, ecology and movement together.
Enroll now and step into a world where every step becomes creative, collective and meaningful.
