Grateful Walking on Earth Day 2021

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For Earth Day, April 22nd 2021, the Earth Gratitude map and web app is relaunched today and we invite you to include your (audio) stories till May 6th.

Share your gratitude with the Earth during a walk in pandemic times.
Share with us a moment of gratitude for a place, for the earth, by sending your audio story and your location, together with a picture, a drawing, a small text, to our collaborative Gratitude locative media map and webapp for walking.

What does gratitude mean today, in this and beyond pandemic, for our world, for our planet. What can you be grateful for?

A project of gratitude of Oika, by Rich Blundell, with Geert Vermeire and Fred Adam, for Supercluster/CGeomap, and Stephanie Whitelaw.

Geert Vermeire

Geert Vermeire

Founder Online Jury 2022 Online Jury 2023 Online Jury 2024

Geert Vermeire is a curator, poet and artist, moving constantly between Greece, Portugal and Brazil, with a focus on spatial writing, locative sound & performance and social practices. He develops collaborative processes, departing from the ethical in...

Fred Adam

Fred Adam

Online Jury 2024

Founder of the locative media portal the GPSmuseum and co-creator of the collaborative mapping and locative media platform CGeomap, co-creators of the Deep Time Walk app and Jungle-ized the app that brought the Amazon rainforest to Times Square in NYC. Exp...

Stephanie Whitelaw

Stephanie Whitelaw

Following organic processes of ephemerality and fluidity, my Art endeavours to connect people with place, revealing the threads that run through ourselves and our environment. The interrelation between ourselves and Nature vibrates itself through my practi...

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