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Walking piece Marŝarto26
2026

What the land holds

I want to take you back tens of thousands of years, when the train rail might have been the walking paths of San and Khoikhoi, with animal spoor worn by eland and quagga. The rail isn’t a rupture with the past so much as an appropriation of it.

Sound walk SWS24
2023

Glas-na-Bradan Soundwalk: Listening for the Future

A site specific soundwalk on the new developing wood in the Belfast Hills. By composer Robert Coleman and featuring a live performance by HIVE Choir

video 2023  

The Walk

2020: The Walk is a project by XR artist and activist Marta Moreno Muñoz, a journey on foot between Granada and Helsinki – with some trains and a ferry, and from there up North to the permafrost – to spread the word about Extinction Rebellion.

Curated news 17 Apr, 2024

World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts | Biodiversity | The Guardian

Loss of intensity and diversity of noises in ecosystems reflects an alarming decline in healthy biodiversity, say sound ecologists Source: World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts | Biodiversity | The Guardian

Sound walk SWS24
2024

Tiger Bay Wetlands Walk

Available on the izi.TRAVEL app or website, this self-guided audio walk shares the history of Tiger Bay Wetlands, as well as its cultural and ecological significance to the inland waterways of New South Wales.

Walking piece
2023

2020: The Walk (book)

2020: The Walk is a project by artist and activist Marta Moreno Muñoz, walking from Granada to Helsinki to help spread the word about Extinction Rebellion, a global environmental movement whose stated aim is to use non-violent civil disobedience to compel governments to take action to avoid triggering tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse.

Walking piece Marŝarto24
2024

Walking a Line: Encounters through Drawing

Walking a line between riverside and woodland, drawing whilst walking. Pen on paper tracks and traces sounds, movement and the rhythm of walking. A drawing and video made by Ruth Broadbent for 4WCoP ’Heritage and Hiraeth’ 2024.

Walking piece Marŝarto24
2024

Jatari (Dreams of blue)

For a migrant, the only thing he has to keep going is the long path of life accompanied by good music. All people who migrate will always return to their country of origin, to their roots and to dream again as they always did.

Sound walk SWS24
2024

Walking in the Plantationocene: exploring the impact of colonial legacies on plant-human relations

This sound walk explores plant-human relations through encounters with planty beings on a route of your choice. It reveals the impact of colonial legacies on our relations with plants and proposes new forms of collaboration between plants and people.

Sound walk SWS22
2022

Walking Home – Milton Keynes

Walk Listen Create have teamed up with MK Lit Fest and The Parks Trust to bring a collaborative anthology of new writing to listeners in Great Linford manor park and the surrounding area. Earlier in 2022, Walk Listen Create ran a writing competition inviting people to submit poetry and stories of up to 250 words on the theme of “Walking Home”. They

Sound walk SWS21
2021

Centre Vale Park Bird Song Walk

Centre Vale park supports 50 bird species year-round, with an interactive walking experience featuring blue circles that play recordings of 18 local bird songs and calls, and blue squares providing narrated identification tips. Photographs of these birds by local photographer Chris Foster are linked to the circles, and new images and sounds continue to be added to this ongoing project.

Walking piece SWS23
2022

24 hrs of biodiversity in Adelaide’s south eastern parklands

Local residents Bronwin Patrickson and Matt Zonca guide you through 24 hours of sights, sounds, happenings, mishaps, and serendipitous encounters, all recorded in and around parks 16 (Victoria/Pakapankanthi) and 17 (Carriageway/Tuthangga) in the south eastern corner of Adelaide's parklands.

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Confluence

After a couple of days of late summer temperatures in the high 30s, I was looking forward to my weekend walk with my dog, in ‘walking temperatures’. If I was going to put in an order for a day like this it’d be something in the high teens, with a...

Kim V. Goldsmith
Kim V. Goldsmith
post 85

Botanical Encounters

I am really excited to be contributing toBOTANICAL ENCOUNTERSThis project, curated by Dr Christina Horvath, aims to disentangle Bath’s often overlooked colonial legacies by looking at the impact of colonial voyages and conquest, imperial science, botanical and arts collections and the global displacement of plants and humans.The project received funding from the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust to promote encounters in Bath around plants and green sp [...]

Richard White
Richard White: walking/media/heritage - Blog
post 65

International Forests Day

Today marks International Day of Forests - or F...

Ellie Berry
Tough Soles Blog
post 85

Score #20 – Carol

Score #20 by Carol Maurer [score base: a £15 Amazon gift card; photo and score: Carol Maurer (2021); score text: [under the gaze of/amazon./imagine spaces/15/which ‘the human figures’ were like the ‘signs’/amidst the foot traffic/improving the b...

Blake Morris
Blake Morris

tracktivism

A field of activist performance that utilises walking and moving and talking in rural landscapes to address issues of environmental, social or political concern (Jess Allen).

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