The proposed project is developed around human connections and the relation between text and (indoor/outdoor) space, so in that perspective, a library is seen as a garden, and a garden as a library, and how they overlap in our mind, considering that a garden exists as much in our mind as in the physical world, and that to be in a garden is as well to be in our mind. 

Moreover, referring to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 where the protagonists become walking books (by learning them by heart), we are at the same time all walking libraries, carrying in us the books that are dear to us. 

To be in a library is at the same time transcending its time and space, being in two spaces at the time, both inside and outside. This feeling is expressed in the painting of San Girolamo nello studio (Antonello da Messina), where a library - writer's studio is depicted that is at the same time existing inside as outside, with birds around. In that sense, a garden is a library as well, containing nature's knowledge. Walking is eventually what connects mind and space, bringing the inside and the outside together, in both directions: walking moves space inwards, and walking moves the mind outwards.

A year and a half residency of Geert Vermeire in the Brazilian capital Brasilia engaged in a long term dialogue between the National Library and the National Museum, applying augmented technologies, locative media and artistic-performative practices of writing and reading in public space, with a symposium and series of exhibitions in the National Library and National Museum, an augmented reality installation bringing a virtual reading garden inside the International Book Fair of Brasilia and was completed with the installation of a "Library of Walks" in the Botanical Garden of Brasilia, a wooden library around a tree, shelving dozens of labeled glass jars with memories of walks. 

The Library of Walks is an artistic trajectory by the Belgian artist Stefaan van Biesen since the 1990ies, elaborated with Geert Vermeire since 2003, when they undertook their first group walk together to read a forest as a library, during the Art Biennale Beeldig Hof ter Saksen in Beveren in Belgium. Their approach expanded in the years after with collaborative texts, a corpus of letters to each other, works of art and performances, continuing till today. On a parallel and convergent way, they develop the concept of archiving walks into projects that transform outdoor spaces into libraries, suggesting new ways of reading the landscape and rewriting it, but equally transforming also indoor libraries in augmented spaces, uniting sound and silence, outside and inside, the mental and the physical, knowledge and nature, and by creating local and global networks of people. Their works unfold around human connections, text and space, resulting in works of arts, site-specific interventions, locative media and creative walks engaging both with the landscape and with those walking through the landscape. 

In the last decade they use the medium of locative technologies intertwining the digital with alternative ways of knowing and connecting, relating to intuition and the senses. Next to walking with people in and around libraries or a landscape perceived as a library - in silent or sensorial walks- they collect digital traces, recordings and other media that are a living archive of movements of people, as a digital library of walks.