A research feedback exhibition, an illustration exhibition, and the installation of two public art works in the railway station area: this is how the project WALC (Walking Landscapes of Urban Source: WALC! – Practices and cultures of urban walking | Università di Padova

A ‘Walking Artist’ is in Windsor-Essex, retracing the route of the Underground Railroad.

It’s been an absolute joy to explore this year’s submissions for the Sound Walk September Awards. Speaking on behalf of the Grand Jury, it wasn’t easy to pick which pieces stood out just a tad more in the field that was this year’s shortlist. But, using cold, hard, mathematics, the numbers didn’t lie, and were

Carlos ‘Luca’ Idrobo produced Love Letters to Walking Art and Science, a cumulative piece that honours pivotal artistic and scientific works focused on walking as both motif and practice, combining photography, drawing, light-drawings, performance, and land art.His work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, he reflects on the piece. Walking a line has been standard practice

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Too much turkey and Baileys? Blow away the Christmas cobwebs on one of our rambles. And if that doesn’t work, they all end at a pub for a hair of the dog Source: 11 of the UK’s best winter walks – all ending at a cosy pub | Winter walks | The Guardian

Claudia Zeiske walked From Mountain to Sea, a 220km walk through Aberdeenshire, and a COVID-19 commemoration walk, marked by benches, music, an embroidered tablecloth, illustrated map, and film.Her work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, she reflects on the experience. Over two years, I walked from mountain to sea forth and back across Aberdeenshire in the

With support from SAHA Association, Delfina Foundation welcomes applications from artists based in Turkey for Source: Open call for artists from Turkey

We are seeking two emerging visual artists aged 18-30 based in Greater Manchester, to join us on an international exchange programme and residency in Ankara in 2026. Source: OPEN CALL: UK-Türkiye Artist Exchange and Residency

The closing date has passed in our End of 2025 quiz – a fiendish one based almost entirely on topics raised during the year’s Walking Writers Salons. So who might be the Clever Clogs the highest number of correct answers? Appropriately we have a pair: Sandra Cowan and Rachel Sloan – who each will receive

New York isn’t the oldest city in the United States of America, and it certainly isn’t the newest. But it is, quite possibly, the American city where more layers of history coexist than any other, a quality that manifests most vividly in its built environment. Source: Take a 2-Hour Walking Tour Through New York City:

From the Marmaray underpasses to the erased slogans in Gezi Park, Irem Guler has spent two decades documenting Turkey’s graffiti and street art, tracing how it is made, claimed and erased. Source: Suck my walls: One woman’s archive of Turkey’s street art – AL-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Laura Reeder walked with local youth and neighbors over two underused lawns in the City of Syracuse, NY. The walks turned undervalued public fields into living drawings, exploring how walking in public space connects ecology, safety, and community.Her work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, she reflects on the experience. My year as resident artist with

Walking the Bypass: Notes on Place from the Side of the Road has been reviewed in The Literary Review of Canada. So many excellent books published in this country get little attention; Walking the Bypass has received two reviews, this one and the earlier discussion in Harper’s Magazine. I am beyond grateful. Check out the new review, which appears in the … Continue reading Walking the Bypass reviewed in The Literary Review of Canada →

Back in March, I was interviewed by Andrew Stuck for the Talking Walking Podcast. Here it is, along with a cheering birdsong chorus.

Dario Laganà went on a 1000 km walk in Norway, and produced the short film Like a Fern Between Rocks, documenting this solitary, nomadic experience. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Marŝarto Awards 2025.  Dario earlier wrote about his experience in A loud solitude, and goes deeper into his experience, below. All of my

Source: Where Portland walks: How the city and community built a safer trail network together – Smart Growth America

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Brona Martin created MOSS – Mapping Otherworldly Soundscapes, an investigation and celebration of sound and an exploration of the relations between the natural and cultural worlds of Moss, Norway. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Brona discusses the piece. Often our first introduction to a new environment is experienced through

We –Suzanne May and I– scattered Kalani’s ashes around his favourite spot in the Waitpinga bushland this morning. He died 2 weeks ago from being poisoned after eating a dead fish contaminated with the toxic micro alga bloom . It happe...