Applications are now re-opened for the remaining sessions and modules of the WALC Online Course: Walking Arts & Local Communities. Free participation.
WALC invites artists, researchers, cultural workers, educators, and walkers into an international learning environment where walking becomes a method of artistic practice, ecological awareness, collective inquiry, and future-making. Across online sessions, shared practices, and collaborative experimentation, participants explore walking not simply as a theme, but as a way of learning, creating, mapping, listening, and relating.
The remaining sessions of the module Walking as a Critical Spatial Practice will focus on Lucius Burckhardt’s Promenadology (Spaziergangswissenschaft) and on Mapping / Counter-Mapping as artistic and critical spatial practices.
Throughout June, the module Walking in the Digital Age explores locative media, sound walking, walking with AI, digital commons, networked art, and collective artistic practices. Invited guest speakers and practitioners will share approaches that connect embodied walking with ecological thinking, relational practices, collaborative authorship, imagination, and future-making. One additional evening session on June 10 will focus specifically on Digital Walking.
The course culminates in participants developing their own walking inquiry and artistic research trajectory.
Participants joining the June sessions can also continue into the Project Lab & Living Archive workshops, rescheduled from September 19 to October 10, focusing on:
- Collaborative Mapping
- The Collective Digital Body
- Walking & Locative Media
- Walking & Ecological Intelligence
These workshops extend the course into a collaborative process of locative and digital artistic production, collective mapping, storytelling, and the creation of a shared living archive. Participation in the June sessions is required in order to join the Autumn workshops.
Join an international constellation of walking artists, researchers, and communities exploring how walking can become a tool for ecological imagination, embodied knowledge, and collective creation.
Ongoing registration and information:
https://supercluster.eu/courses/walc/
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Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) is an artistic cooperation project, co-funded by the European Union, Creative Europe, starting in January 2024 for four years. With seven partners from five countries, WALC establishes an International Center for Artistic Research and Practice of Walking Arts, in Prespa, Greece, at the border with Albania and North Macedonia, backed up by an online counterpart in the format of a digital platform for walking arts.
WALC builds on the previous work of hundreds of artists and researchers already practicing Walking Arts as a collaborative medium, and having met at the significant previous walking arts events and encounters in Greece, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, and during online activities at walk · listen · create.
We acknowledge the support of the EU Creative Europe Cooperation grant program in the framework of the European project WALC (Walking Arts and Local Community).
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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The Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) online course invites you from March to June 2026 into the artistic practice of walking arts. Designed for artists, creators, educators, cultural workers, and innovators, the course explores walking not simply as a theme, but as a method of learning, creating, and relating. This is not about learning about walking. It is about walking as learning.
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• Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) online course
The Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) online course invites you from March 2026 on into the artistic practice of walking arts. Designed for artists, creators, educators, cultural workers, and innovators, the course explores walking not simply as a theme, but as a method of learning, creating, and relating. This is not about learning about walking. It is about walking as learning.
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Introduction to Walking Arts (WALC online course Session 1)
First session of the block Foundations of Walking Arts as part of the online course “Walking Arts and Local Communities” in the frame of the Creative Europe Cooperation project WALC. Speaker: Yannis Ziogas. Coordinators: Fred Adam and Geert Vermeire
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