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Walking piece Marŝarto26 New 2026

Cagliari in layers

Cagliari, a port, and built on a raised plateau, with lots of history, attractive to tourists, but not (yet?) overrun by them, is very well suited for exploration.

London Orbital: A Walk Around The M25

Iain Sinclair
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Walking piece Marŝarto25 2025

Another NYC

A deck of 56 prompts, specifically designed for New York City, to help in exploring the city on your own terms.

Ways of Walking

Ann de Forest
post Featured 09 Mar, 2026

The Art of Being on Location

Recently, we integrated the OVERHEAR API into our Museum of Walking, making it easy for creators using OVERHEAR to include their work into our archives. Kibriya Mehrban talked about her experience as part of the app’s core team. Now, Tom, founder of the app, follows up on Kibriya’s article. My name is Tom. I’m the founder and co-director of

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Walking off the map

Kunci, Jalan Gembira, Dérive app
29 Nov, 2025 · All day
Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta City, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia

This walkshop invites friends to experience Yogjakarta in a different way outside of our everyday lives.

post Featured 16 Feb, 2026

Counter-Narratives You Have to Walk To

Recently, we integrated the OVERHEAR API into our Museum of Walking, making it easy for creators using OVERHEAR to include their work into our archives. Here’s Kibriya Mehrban talking about her experience as part of the app’s core team. OVERHEAR a free app that hosts a large variety of audio, from poetry to oral histories

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Street Wisdom In-Person Walkshop in London, UK

2023-10-30 13:00
16 Brushfield St, London E1 6AT, UK

Join Urszula Caroto (LinkedIn) for a 1-hour in-person Street Wisdom Walkshop in London, UK on 30th October 2023, meeting at the Herd of Hope Elephant at Spitafields Market (Google Map). It is the s...

Walking piece
Walking piece Marŝarto25 2025

A deck for London

A digital, and physical, deck of 55 task cards, specifically designed for London.

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Rights-of-way

2022-07-06 05:00
Girona, Spain

use the city highway as a programme of walking. I propose my route for an audience. The walking becomes collective and participative. We walk together. A walkshop with Cyril Bron (B).

Walking Art and Relational Geographies (2022)
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Incoming and Outgoing

Eloise Hawser and Royal Docks
2021-11-06 13:30
Royal Docks, UK

This is one of a series of four walking workshops. Please book for free through Eventbrite via the attached link. Join artist and newsprint enthusiast Eloise Hawser for a series of four different workshops with guided walks in London’s Docklands, looking at the area’s rich variety of stories, people and places through the lens of

post Curated news 22 Apr, 2026

Nao Lee’s posters are digital terrains that hide small and unruly treasures for you to find

To craft her noisy compositions, the designer is drawn to everything that is at odds with playing by the rules. Source: Nao Lee’s posters are digital terrains that hide small and unruly treasures for you to find

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Books

The Walker: On Losing and Finding Yourself in the Modern City

Matthew Beaumont

Articles on WLC

post Curated news 30 Sep, 2024

5 Psychogeographical Experiments To See the City Anew

from ‘Bending Out of Shape’, Issue 8 of Crumble Magazine. Source: 5 Psychogeographical Experiments To See the City Anew

post Featured SWS23 21 Dec, 2023

Because there’s more to explore

Audio Artist Dawn Matheson, in collaboration with Abhiraj Dadiyan, has produced a participatory work "Semi-Colon". Part of the larger "How To Draw A Tree" project, Semi-Colon invites listeners to engage with nature in original ways. The multimedia endeavor focuses on fostering connections between individuals with mental health challenges, creativity, and trees, seeking to foster social change and combat isolation.

post Featured SWS23 19 Dec, 2023

It’s what’s happening around you that matters

"Stopping To Notice" is a podcast created by Miranda Keeling, Oli Seymour, and Fresh Air Production, focusing on everyday life's joys. The show lasts only 5 minutes per episode and aims to celebrate ordinary moments via sound.

post Featured SWS23 12 Dec, 2023

Uncovering, and re-discovering, Nantucket

"Head, Hand and Heart" takes participants on a journey across Nantucket Island's history, culture, and nature. The project was conceived during an artist residency and explores various themes through sensory storytelling, aiming to engage audiences beyond mere consumption.

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30 Days of Prompts

For Sound Walk September 2022, the main event organised by walk · listen · create was 30 Days of Prompts, a continuous, 30-day event, where participants were given two prompts per day, with the aim of exploring the urban space around them. The platform, naturally, was going to be Dérive app, though I also published …

Babak Fakhamzadeh

Events

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The World Wide Wander 2025 In-Person Walkshop in Guarujá

Street Wisdom
2025-06-28 13:00
Praia do Tombo - Guarujá, State of São Paulo, Brazil

Join Babak Fakhamzadeh for an in-person Street Wisdom Walkshop happening as part of this year's big annual day of wonder and wandering, the World Wide Wander 2025.

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World Wide Wander In-Person Walkshop in Athens, Greece

Street Wisdom
2024-09-27 08:30
Thiseio Metro Station, Agion Asomaton, Athens, Greece

Join Babak Fakhamzadeh and Elpida Trizi for an in-person Street Wisdom Walkshop happening as part of this year’s big annual day of wonder and wandering, the World Wide Wander, taking place on Friday 27th September 2024.

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Walking Detective meet up

2023-11-27 19:00
Online

We want to uncover the forgotten or not yet revealed walking compositions – will you help us in our detective work as we search through archives and make connections with walking artists, performers and writers across the globe?

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Walking Detective meet-up

2023-10-30 20:30
Online

Help us uncover the forgotten or not yet revealed walking compositions.

scurrifunge

To work or walk hurriedly. from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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