Month: September 2026
Walking Against the Map: From location-aware AI to negotiated experience
I had the pleasure of being the closing speaker of WALKING – Denken in Bewegung 3, hosted by the Institute for Land Environment and Art, which ran between 11 and 13 September near Basel. I wasn’t able to attend in person, and spoke remotely. My presentation discussed the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in walking …
Portland just launched the most delightfully weird scavenger hunt you’ll see this year — and it involves a 200-pound ballerina Sasquatch – Here is Oregon – hereisoregon.com
More than 25 local artists have hidden Bigfoot-inspired creations across 21 Portland locations. Source: Portland just launched the most delightfully weird scavenger hunt you’ll see this year — and it involves a 200-pound ballerina Sasquatch – Here is Oregon – hereisoregon.com
A DIY toolkit for digital sound walks: the 2026 edition
In 2021, walk · listen · create published A DIY toolkit for digital sound walks. Five years is a long time in locative media. Some of the tools in that survey have closed, some have been absorbed by larger companies, and others still have a website but are no longer realistic options for a new creator.
Elections 2026 – Political parties respond to LSA policy questions
Living Streets Aotearoa believes it is important that New Zealand has national policy that supports walking and pedestrians. Back in April, we sent a series of policy questions to political parties and asked for their responses in advance of the 2026 e...
Why No Hoboes Over Here?
I’m writing this after rereading Kenneth Alsopp’s classic Hard Travellin’ after a gap of some nearly fifty years. It is, needless, to say, a book of its time but what a poetic piece of extensive research it is. It’s a piece of Americana but the book al...
Footpath rule change puts pedestrians last
Living Streets Aotearoa, the national walking advocacy organisation, is concerned about the recent announcement from the Government that new lane use rules that will allow some children and adults to ride bikes on the footpath will come into effec...
Plaisir(s) de marchécouter, point d’ouïe de la rentrée
Repérage audio en duo d’écoute.Un quartier lyonnais, périphérique, polymorphe, multiculturel, en grande restructuration.Plaisir de retrouver le terrain pour de nouveaux points d’ouïe et projets a venir.Déambuler par ici, lotissement très calme.Déambuler par là, boulevard très agitéSur un spot surprenant, on regarde le paysage au travers une carillon de trois cloches, suspendues sur le parvis d’une […]
‘Why not try to be the best in the world, just for the fun of it?’ Art Garfunkel on a rich, restless life – and reconciling with Paul Simon | Pop and rock | The Guardian
He taught maths and walked across Europe, trying to leave his demons behind. As he goes back on tour aged 83, the folk-pop legend explains how he came back to singing Source: ‘Why not try to be the best in the world, just for the fun of it?’ Art Garfunkel on a rich, restless life
A Walk can be an Open Air Museum
A BS3 Museum Walk (Others Are Available) Join me on one of my regular walks from my home to Ashton Gate, the home of Bristol City. I am highlighting the exhibits I connect with. If you were to undertake the walk you would, undoubtedly, see different th...
What Walking Art Notices
An attempt at characterising 76 works in the WLC archive suggests that walking art makes urban conditions perceptible in ways that conventional walkability measures rarely do. Through altered routes, sensory attention, collective movement and counter-mapping, these pieces expose the histories, power relations, ecological conditions and embodied constraints that shape how space can be inhabited.
A walking tour of Andalucía’s historic white villages: ‘Nightingales serenade us as we wind along lush river valleys’ | Andalucia holidays | The Guardian
The famous pueblos blancos in southern Spain’s Sierra de Grazalema natural park teem with wildlife amid a limestone wonderland of peaks Source: A walking tour of Andalucía’s historic white villages: ‘Nightingales serenade us as we wind along lush river valleys’ | Andalucia holidays | The Guardian
Another day, another (imagined) island
We are approaching the broadcast of my second 24hr work of the summer. This coming Thursday (3rd September) “Once upon a day on Alnay” is to be broadcast on Resonance Extra and Resonance FM (https://extra.resonance.fm/ or https://www.resonancefm.com/) 24 hours, one … Continue reading →
