Ecology / Environment
In this collection
Highlights
Larch, Spruce, Fir, Birch, Hand, Blast Hole Pond Road, Newfoundland 2007–2026
In association with the Urban Tree Festival, we welcome Marlene Creates award-winning photographer and long time supporter of walk · listen · create, as our café guest. Marlene will discuss some of the work she has done over the past 24 years in her outdoor studio, which is a six-acre (2.4 hectares) patch of old-growth
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Silent Moves – Stories of Vietnamese Migration
Silent Moves presents an acoustic archive of Vietnamese migration histories linked to Berlin-Lichtenberg, featuring sounds, interviews, and archival materials from the GDR era to today. This sound walk allows listeners to engage with voices of migrants, experts, and activists either on-site or online via aporee.org/mfm.
Walking between Worlds. Made of Walking Prosperpolder : walking a landscape
Walking Between Worlds reflects on Made of Walking Prosperpolder as an evolving walking arts practice. Through walks, performances and dialogue, it explores how artists, communities and landscapes co-create long-term ecological and social relationships.
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The Hay Wain: Walking Constable’s Landscape review – a masterpiece for the climate crisis age | John Constable | The Guardian
While Britain boils in a heatwave, a new exhibition built around the much-reproduced canvas reminds us of the beauty of the natural world – and what we could lose Source: The Hay Wain: Walking Constable’s Landscape review – a masterpiece for the climate crisis age | John Constable | The Guardian
• Creative Field Work in Forest Plantations
This interactive exposition shares the processes and findings of an artistic research project which uses sited creative practices – including field recordings, sound-making, walking practices and song – to explore Portuguese forest plantations.
Artists in the field and by the water
Biological field stations and marine labs are place-based institutions primarily focused on science research, science education, and public engagement with science. In the past few decades, there has been a growing interest among field stations and marine labs to invite artists to participate in artist residency programs, art education, and community arts events. We are delighted
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Walking pieces
Silent Witnesses
The London Plane tree, how bare our streets would be without these shade-providing adaptable and absorbent trees protecting all within our city. Artist Susan Trangmar ran this ‘forest of signs‘ walkshop, in conjunction with Andrew Stuck and the Museum of Walking. It celebrated the Platanus x acerifolia – looking at how the prolific planting of this tree has framed the
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Articles on WLC
Kysihýbel Arboretum: A forest art walk in Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia – The Slovak Spectator
In Slovakia’s Kysihýbel Arboretum, rare trees frame contemporary sculptures in a quiet walk where art and nature meet. Source: Kysihýbel Arboretum: A forest art walk in Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia – The Slovak Spectator
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Bog walking: Exploring Estonia’s otherworldly wild landscapes
Once feared as homes to spirits, Estonia’s bogs cover a fifth of the country and are vital to its culture and ecology. Today, travellers can explore them on guided bog-shoe treks. Source: Bog walking: Exploring Estonia’s otherworldly wild landscapes
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Walking Between Worlds: how Lydia Matthews stepped out of the classroom and kept walking
“It was risky,” she admits. “I never asked permission. But it was deeply transformative.” The students learned to trust their senses and find an ease with uncertainty
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Articles elsewhere
Paysages sonores, les pesants silences caniculaires
Point d’ouïe un brin dystopique, quoique que…J’ai entendu cet été, dans le parc voisin, se taire les voix des jeunes au cœur de la journée brulante, puis réapparaitre, timides, au mitan de la nuit, dans une fraicheur relative.Tout comme s’est tu le ruisseau attenant, asséché par un impitoyable et torride étiage.La placette voisine se réduit […]
L’écoute chauffée à blanc
Texte à brule-pourpoint, assez épidermique.Il y a quelques semaines, rien ne pouvait me faire penser à réfléchir sur les rapports paysages sonores et grands feux, écoutes et brûlures paysagères. En tous cas rien ne me poussait à écrire, non pas un brûlot, mais juste une petite réflexion liée à mes pratiques récentes, et à l’actualité […]
Gare aux grands bruits !
Le grand bruit du monde fait rageLa guerre omniprésente qui grondeDes idéologies délétères criantes et hurlantesDes éléments déchainésDes médias dégoulinant de sons submergeantsIl est difficile d’échapper au fracas ambiantAu brouhaha brouillageAu chaos assourdissantIl faut creuser les scories sonoresChercher quelques pépites rassérénantesAccueillir et cultiver les aménités paysagères et sociétales, par l’oreille compriseNe pas aller dans le […]
Events
Common Ground: Embroidering the Map of Beveren
Common Ground invites participants to explore Beveren through walking, storytelling and embroidery. Together they create a collective map by stitching memories, trees and meaningful places into a shared tapestry celebrating local landscapes and ecolo
• Stories from the Marsh
Explore the Verdronken Land van Saeftinghe on a guided walk through Europe's largest tidal wetlands, followed by Stories from the Marsh, a storytelling performance by Rien Van Meensel. The walk and storytelling session can be joined independently.
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Videos
Links
Duncan MacLeod’s Website
Walking without a donkey
Underwater Listening
