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WALC Online Course Session 7 – Walking and Gender
This session explores how gender shapes walking, space and artistic expression. Through feminist, queer and postcolonial perspectives, participants examine walking as a strategy of resistance, visibility and empowerment.
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Listening to a City That Pushes Back
Amble Skuze created Normalised Interfacing, a wheelchair sound walk, which maps the experiences and thoughts of a wheelchair user in a new city. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Amble discusses the piece, and what lead to its creation. My piece, Normalised Interfacing, started with a commission from the Zentrum
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Europe beats the US for walkable, livable cities, study shows | Environment | The Guardian
Cities such as Zurich and Dublin found to have key services accessible within 15 minutes for more than 95% of residents Source: Europe beats the US for walkable, livable cities, study shows | Environment | The Guardian
• Everybody out and about – creative ways to make that happen
Too easy to make the assumption that everyone can walk – surely it is the most human thing we humans can do? However, not everyone has the privilege of the sensorial able-bodied. Often overlooked in event planning or in creative compositions, yet frequently made to feel as if in the spotlight, an unintended public performer,
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• The IDEA Project: Towards Inclusive Co-Created Audio Description
From University College London's 'Disability and the Cultural Sector' seminar series, Prof. Hannah Thompson, will explore what happens when audio description moves from access provision to artistic intervention and asks who has the right to describe or be described.
• Self-reflection through walking
This walkshop in Prespa activity aims to address questions of ability, mobility, disability, personal space and sociality through the experience of walking. The activity will be separated into three sections, each of them correlating to a respective theme. These activities to take place during the morning for a group of flexible number of participants, which
Walking pieces
Running Shoes
Running Shoes (2021) addresses the issue of women's safety in public spaces, prompted by the murder of Sarah Everard on March 3, 2021. The work features spoken testimonies from Glasgow students expressing their feelings of insecurity while walking in the city.
Articles on WLC
Street Artists Around the World Captured a Turbulent Year in Real Time—See the Beautiful and Unforgettable Works of 2020 Here | artnet News
Throughout 2020, street artists captured the zeitgeist, creating artwork inspired by the global health crisis, Black Lives Matter, and more. Source: Street Artists Around the World Captured a Turbulent Year in Real Time—See the Beautiful and Unforgettable Works of 2020 Here | artnet News
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June 2020 First Sunday: reading and writing space
TL;DR First Sunday tomorrow aims to read and rewrite the city. And, of course, as ever Black Lives Matter Hello dear friends and fellow loiterers Its First Sunday this Sunday (tomorrow!) and so once again there will some experiments in creative walki...
LTAW #38 Women’s March 2019
Women's March 2019 will take place in the US and all over the world. The decision as to where to walk in New York City is a complicated one. I will walk to the three sites, not join them but uniting them, marking my path with small items I'll found on ...
Events
Community Engagement Coburg
Combining techniques devised while working with communities in the UK, for both young and old, Andrew Stuck from Rethinking Cities, conducted a series of workshops with officers from local authorities in and around Coburg, in Melbourne, Australia. Some 30 local authority community engagement officers joined Andrew to explore the applicability of various techniques, that Andrew has honed when facilitating
• No Vantage Point
Join Duncan Speakman, a composer and sound artist, who creates narrative sound led experiences that engage audiences in uncontrolled public and private space to find out how we can reframe the idea of immersive media as something that exposes and reveals the entangled ecologies we exist in.
#Walk_the_line
The idea for the artwork came to my mind when I enterd the courtyard of the special primary school and I saw a painted red line on the ground. In the process I find that it has been designed to be a kind of “direction guide” for children with disabilities. The execution seemed easy: The
Entre Ser y Hacer
Two Audio Walk Events on the 4th (Spanish) and 8th (English) of July for 30 minutes each. These are invitations to have a walk together, at the same time but from wherever we are in the city of Santiago de Chile and in the world, while one person is audio guiding the walk. They will be held in the morning (8 am Chilean Time) because this is the “free time” where everyone in Chile is allowed to go out from their homes.
