The excellent people at SOUNDkitchen have created another immersive journey of audio encounters, this time exploring the green spaces of the B37 postcode in Solihull. This self-directed walk can be undertaken at any time using the SOUNDwalker app. "Discover the hidden sounds of bats and underwater life, listen to wind and rain on metal structures, […]

New Walkspace member Daniella Turbin has set herself the ambitious target of walking every square of the UK Ordnance Survey Maps. This sixty second animation documents her journey along the course of the River Severn and comprises sixty hand-drawn frames created from photographs taken on a 35mm film camera. "The River Severn runs right the […]

Wat ik niet zo goed kan is me vervelen, of beter gezegd ik verzin steeds iets vlak voor ik me verveel. Iets! Ietsen doe ik het liefst buiten, zo ontstaan de Wildsnoeier of mijn wandel drift. Als kind verveelde ik me ook nooit en ging ik ook gewoon buit...

Billy Mills: A new book claiming that walking and writing are one activity uses great dreamers to make its point, but the walker-writers passing through Connemara seem to have drawn on simpler inspirations Source: Path to enlightenment: how walking inspires writers | Books | The Guardian

outer northeast 11 minutes The Poplars Roseworth Avenue The Grove Moor Road North St Nicholas Avenue Rectory Grove Church Road Church Lane Sparrow chatter   across small front gardens behind low walls Cars parked   on the south side of … Continue reading →

With Mark Drakeford's permission, I escorted my birthday present up to Banc Y Darren to visit the very best postbox within cycling distance of my home. Strictly speaking, the present escorted me. The condition of the Banc Y Darren sundial has deterior...

The shared walks card set combines transdisciplinary strategies of walking to be used in fields like community organizing, non-formal-learning, team building, local participation, etc. Source: Shared Walks: An initiative and toolkit for walking in diverse societies

inner west 13 minutes The Poplars High Street Graham Park Road A heraldic turn    atop gateposts     lions hold shields A once gateway bricked back into a wall In a Range Rover   white hair uncombed      eyes staring A … Continue reading →

I have been going through books on early photography in South Australia looking for 19th century photographs of the northern Flinders Ranges, northern South Australia, or central Australia. I was expecting to find examples, given that photographers had accompanied some of the inland expeditions to the north and western Australia in these regions as early […]

Discipline versus indiscipline, ou vers l’indisciplinarité*La discipline est, pour être effective, ou efficace, encadrée de règles, de codes, d’obligations ou de suggestions, bien souvent (trop) stricts.C’est aussi un champ, une spécialité, notamment professionnelle, pouvant généralement être marquée du même défaut que dans l’acception précédente, de par ses cadres trop cadrés.L’indiscipline elle, est entre autre choses … Continuer à lire ... "Points d’ouïe et milieux sonores indisciplinés"

outer southwest 6 minutes The Drive Moor Place woodlands Oaklands Avenue Oaklands Grandstand Road Town Moor A skylark murmers     reluctant to sing in February sunshine Flows of people   crisscross the moor Jackdaw and common gull stand as crows … Continue reading →

A Walking the Land first Friday walk 1-1-21Prompt: Thomas A Clark – In Praise of WalkingI drew the path I took and it looks like a necklace on the page, one which has got all twisted up and would take ages to untangle. I see a shoe-string of dalliance,...

outer west 7 minutes The Drive Westfield Drive Oakfield Road In an old stone wall    a hole    for a nest-hunting blue tit A jackdaw       rides the arc of the wind    

From sculptures to murals, greater Mankato’s public art scene adds a vibrant spark to the community. Source: Deadline approaches to enter Mankato Poetry Walk and Ride contest

We're welcoming three amazing new experts to our Sound Walk September Advisory Board; John Drever, Annie Mahtani, and Andrea Zeffiro.

inner northeast 15 minutes The Poplars Roseworth Avenue The Grove Yonder Cottage Fencing contains the laurel bush gloom The bursting twisted tracery of tree bark A dog sniffs the gate post Cyclist chat within the pulse of traff...

inner south 8 minutes The Drive Moor Crescent Great North Road Grandstand Road Wind     sound is tossed and shredded      by the gusts the skylarks sings     above the gale Jackdaws stay low     dogwalkers wrapped against the weather   … Continue reading →

inner northeast 11 minutes The Poplars Roseworth Avenue The Grove Roseworth Crescent Roseworth Close An unlikely haven from the sounds of traffic An ivy-grown wall       two pruned birch trees beyond Birds flick through the shrubbery The delivery man places … Continue reading →

inner southeast 15 minutes Snatches of talk as people run walk and wait to cross Fathers push buggies of sleeping babies The runners wait check their time hands on knees Jackdaws explore a chimney    

outer northwest 3 minutes The Drive Westfield Drive Parker Avenue Brackenfield Road Thornfield Road Northfield Road Salters Road Yetlington Drive Three dog-walkers and a walking jogger A blackbird picks over leaves underneath the bushes Behind me a dunnock sings   … Continue reading →