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Walking Arts and Local Communities
online course early 2026
Embark on a transformative journey with our Walking Arts & Local Communities online course, designed for artists, creators, educators and cultural innovators who want to explore walking as an artistic practice, community tool and ecological medium.
Why join?
Discover how walking becomes a powerful tool for storytelling, mapping and social & ecological engagement.
Learn from leading practitioners and scholars in walking arts, locative media and participatory practices.
Be part of a vibrant global network, connect with peers across Europe and beyond, and participate in collaborative exercises, workshops and projects that engage place and movement.
Gain access to exclusive modules, audio-visual content and a digital platform that supports your creative exploration and interaction.
What you will explore
Walking as research & practice – applying sound-walks, mapping, storytelling and movement to question, re-imagine and transform our relations with landscape and community.
Local to global perspectives – rooted in place-based knowledge and community values, while connected to trans-European dialogues on walking arts and ecological futures.
Participation, creation & commons – engage in co-creative formats, share work within the course community and build towards a living-archive of walking arts practices.
Digital & physical convergence – through our online platform and modules you’ll expand walking arts methods into digital, hybrid and site-specific formats.
This course is ideal for artists, cultural professionals, community and environmental practitioners, curators, educators and students — who are curious about walking as an experimental and socially engaged mode of art-making and learning.
How it works
The course is self-paced, online and flexible to your schedule.
Each module includes video presentations, readings, interactive tasks, peer-to-peer exchange and project prompts.
You will share and reflect on your walking practices and create a piece of work or concept in response to the prompts.
Upon completion, you’ll receive a certificate of participation and entry into the WALC network, opening pathways to further residencies, workshops and collaborations.
Join us
Be part of the next wave of walking arts and local communities. Walk, listen, 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.
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Anthology of Walking Arts
Foundations of Walking Arts & the Commons
Discover how walking as practice opens up relational, ecological and communal ways of knowing. This module introduces the history of walking arts, the idea of the commons (both physical and digital), and explores how walking can become an act of co-creation and collective inquiry. You will engage with key texts and begin to map your own walking practice into a living commons.
Mapping, Storytelling & Place-based Knowledge
In this module you learn how participatory mapping, embodied storytelling and locative media turn walking into a tool for uncovering local knowledge, layered heritage and shared imaginaries. Using digital and analogue methods inspired by the global walking arts network, you’ll practice turning walking traces into collective narratives.
Walking in the Digital Age
Digital Commons & Hybrid Walking Practices
Walking doesn’t stay outside: this module explores how walking practices extend into digital spaces and become part of the digital commons. You’ll experiment with hybrid formats—mobile explorations, online platforms, collaborative mapping—and consider how walking art can live in both physical terrain and networked space, creating open-access shared resources.
Creative Methodologies & Future-Making
Here we dive into methods of artistic intervention, collective narrative creation, back-casting and speculative walking. You’ll work with sensory walking, playful futures, and collaborative engagement to design site-specific actions that speak to ecological and communal transformation. The aim is to move from documentation to activist, communal future-making.
From Local to Global — Nodes and Networks
Walking arts happen at many scales: this module shows how local walking communities become nodes in a global network of walking arts practices. You will engage with case-studies, networked platforms and the notion of shared infrastructure—physical, conceptual and digital—for walking arts. You’ll also begin to plan your own walking-arts project within the network.
Project Lab & Living Archive
For the final module you will apply your learning in a hands-on project: you’ll map your walk, capture multisensory data, tell a story and contribute to the network’s living archive of walking arts. Using the platform, you’ll publish your piece, reflect with peers, and situate your work within a broader ecology of walking 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 module culminates in a collective showcase, where each participant share their projects, exchange feedback, and weave their contributions into the wider constellation of the global walking arts network.
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