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walk · listen · create (WLC) is the home of walking artists and artist walkers, as well as Sound Walk September, the Sound Walk September Awards, the Marŝarto Awards, and Placecloud.

walk · listen · create operates on a plain that is bounded by sound, or audio, place, or location, and technology. Technology is not just mobile phones or computers, it’s also pen & paper, rocks, and anything that can be used as a tool.

We have a particular interest in sound walks, and walking writers. Curious as to what is a sound walk?

WLC was officially founded in 2021 as an NGO in Belgium, but we came together in 2019, around the implementation of the first Sound Walk September, itself a consequence of Sound Walk Sunday 2017.

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Home of walking artists

We catalogue the publications of artists who walk, and provide a place for walking artists to share their work, thoughts, pieces and events. walk · listen · create is maintained by Babak Fakhamzadeh, Geert Vermeire and Andrew Stuck.

Andrew Stuck conceived the idea of Sound Walk September, and has been a podcaster since 2008. He has met and interviewed scores of walking artists and sound walk creatives.

Babak Fakhamzadeh supervises the online platforms of walk · listen · create. Babak is a locative media creative and creates mobile solutions that help individuals to get lost.

Geert Vermeire is a key connector, and founder and convenor of Made of Walking. He has been making locative media, and sound walks in particular, for two decades.

Annemarie Lopez is a writer, walker, digital storyteller, and psychogeographer. She brings her experience as a journalist and editor to communications and social media promotion of WLC activities.

Andrew Stuck

Andrew Stuck

Co-founder of walk · listen · create (United Kingdom) 
Geert Vermeire

Geert Vermeire

co-founder of walk · listen · create (Belgium) 
Babak Fakhamzadeh

Babak Fakhamzadeh

Co-founder of walk · listen · create (Netherlands / Iran / Brazil) 
Annemarie Lopez

Annemarie Lopez

Writer, walker, digital storyteller, psychogeographer (United Kingdom) 

Sound Walk September

walk · listen · create is the home of Sound Walk September, the yearly event that celebrates the experience of walking, augmented by sound.

Read our mission statement.

Marŝarto Awards

walk · listen · create is also the home of the Marŝarto Awards, recognising, and rewarding, unique walking art.

Placecloud

At walk · listen · create, we are responsible for Placecloud.io, a collection of short podcasts, “viewpoints”, on the places around you. Viewpoints can focus on historic buildings, quirky locations, hidden gems, of the world around you, so that you can discover new places to visit.

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Nearly all content on this website is available under a cc-nc-a license. This is almost always explicitly specified with photos. If you need another license to reproduce our content, ask.

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Send an email to Babak, Geert or Andrew.

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We might use some of your submitted material for promotion of your work or this website.

You warrant that your contribution does not infringe the copyright or any other right of any other party. It includes nothing libellous, obscene or otherwise unlawful. You indemnify walk · listen · create, and its team, from and against all action, proceedings, costs, damages, claims, demands, expenses, loss and liability whatsoever arising out of or by any breach of this warranty.

GPS, geo-poetic system

Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).

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