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Walking piece Marŝarto26 New 2026

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.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2021

Puddle World

Mapping a puddle with ink and rainwater led me to travel in my imagination from a small garden puddle to a landscape of possibilities and a wider elemental exploration of place that stretched beyond its physical and material boundaries.

video walk · listen · café 2026  

On Pilgrimage 2 – Sacred Steps

Working alongside the World Trails Network (WTN), a community of trail management and tourism providers, that include many traditional pilgrimage routes and trails that now accommodate secular pilgrims, we are running a series of online events to discuss the roles walking art plays in pilgrimage and vice versa. This second event in the series focusses on Contemporary pilgrimage,

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Walk With Us: Guided Walks

Newlyn Art Gallery
2022-10-26 12:00
Newlyn Art Gallery, New Road, Newlyn, Penzance TR18 5PZ, UK

Join us for a series of guided walks & workshops using the 'Walk With Us' app, which focusses on the National Oceanography Centre’s monitoring project about coastal hazards, resilience and the wider issues of coastal erosion and climate change.

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It’s a walking world, walking with Prespa – a meeting with the HUBs (seminar)

2021-07-10 11:00
Online

Ten hubs walk and intersect with Prespa during the one week encounters. Meeting link. The Prespa encounters opens with a walk in Chile and ends with a walk in Argentina, inviting to listen and move together through the differences and similarities of landscapes on two sides of the world. The Cartography of Hospitality collective walks

Walking as a Question
post Featured Marŝarto23 26 Dec, 2023

Towards the Severn… Towards the Sea

With The (Future) Wales Coast Path, Alison Neighbour, through a cooperation between Wales and India, Alison Neighbour seeks to raise awareness of the impermanence of the land many of us take for granted, and to open up a local and global conversation about flooding, sea level rise, and adaptation. This walking piece is one of the shortlisted

post Featured 24 Jun, 2021

Open call for partners: Climate Sound Walk Award

We are looking for partners to establish a Climate Sound Walk Award; an extension of the existing Sound Walk September Awards.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2020

This Must Be the Place

Sarah Rodigari’s This Must Be the Place explored rural utopian visions in Hopetoun/Ravensthorpe through walking interviews, culminating in Hearsay, a performance linking past narratives and speculative futures amid climate and regional challenges.

Walking piece
Walking piece Marŝarto26 2025

White Pages

A 5.5-hour walk along Prespa's receding shoreline, tracing a route that would have avoided post-civil war surveillance checkpoints. White stones became "White Pages"—transforming resistance into reflection.

WAC25: Walking Home / Walking in Transition
WALC
Walking piece
Walking piece 1960

Labyrinth

In June 1960, after a tornado transformed her cottage in Sydney, Illinois, Schneemann created Labyrinth, an outdoor event inviting friends to physically engage with the altered landscape.

Walking piece
Walking piece Marŝarto23 2023

Walking the questions

A 40 day performative walk through northern Spain, wearing a business suit embroidered with other peoples’ question in order to live (into) them, listening to human and none-human beings, making connections, finding and creating new stories.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS22 2021

Sydney Gardens Tree Weekender audio anthology

Rustling in the leaves Through dappled sunlight, a shower of falling leaves, and with colours of autumn all around you, you can now listen to poetry and prose inspired by trees in parks and public gardens while you stroll through Bath’s Sydney Gardens.     Bath & North East Somerset Council celebrated trees in parks and public gardens

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Walking pieces

Sound walk
Sound walk 2022

Das Private ist poetisch

More than 250 young people between the ages of 11 and 29 submitted audio contributions for the storytelling competition "The Private is Poetic" of the Anne Frank Educational Centre in Frankfurt.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS22 2022

WILD EYE – Audio postcards from the North Yorkshire coast

A series of audio postcards travelling the the coastal landscape from Scarborough to Whitby in North Yorkshire.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS22 2022

Walk With Us

‘Dive’ takes you on a magical underwater walk as you descend into the ocean while never actually getting your feet wet. ‘Six Lessons in Walking a Tightrope’ balances the line between celebrating our world as it is now and foreseeing changes.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS21 2020

Klinein 01 – Arga

"Klinein 01 – Arga" is a soundwalk along the river Arga in Navarre that integrates datasets from the NSIDC Sea Ice Index, sonically representing changes in global sea ice since 1978. Produced in 2020, this work explores soundscape and data synthesis by merging environmental sounds with climate data to evoke the experience of the climate emergency.

Articles on WLC

post Curated news 17 Oct, 2024

AI-generated Irchester nature walk highlights climate change

Walkers are provided with maps but are encouraged to use their intuition to move between waymarkers. Source: AI-generated Irchester nature walk highlights climate change

post Curated news 04 Nov, 2022

Walking Wolli Creek | Sydney Review of Books

‘I’ve walked this loop for long enough that there are passing strangers I now recognise.’ In this iterative writing and walking project, Clare Britton and Alexandra Crosby have been making space to ask questions of each other about caring for Country, to share conversations about climate change, and to remind themselves of the love that

post Curated news 16 Sep, 2022

Sound artist Chris Watson on a quest to make climate change audible 

Field recordings of the natural world are woven into ‘Weather’, a visual, orchestral extravaganza with the Manchester Collective Source: Sound artist Chris Watson on a quest to make climate change audible | Financial Times

post Curated news 10 May, 2020

Locative media, climate change and (im)mobility during the COVID19 pandemic Tickets, Fri 29 May 2020 at 09:00 | Eventbrite

Locative media, climate change and (im)mobility during the Covid-19 pandemic: exploring collaborative spatial narratives in the arts and education Source: Locative media, climate change and (im)mobility during the COVID19 pandemic Tickets, Fri 29 May 2020 at 09:00 | Eventbrite A free symposium-workshop for all interested in the relation between locative media and our planet in

Articles elsewhere

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New article in HUB Issue 6 – Resonance +

It’s so exciting to be able to share my exposition, Creative Fieldwork in Forest Plantations: Seeking Resonance in Precarious Landscapes, … More

Jo Scott
Tracey M Benson |... 35

The anatomy of a Queenslander – a story of connections

The author reflects on the Queenslander house as a cultural and ecological symbol, connecting personal history with broader themes of urban development and environmental sustainability. Their research emphasizes the loss of iconic architecture to urban sprawl and advocates for integrating traditional design into modern climate-resilient communities, drawing from decades of environmental work.

Tracey Benson
Tracey M Benson |... 40

Drammen AiR Update #6

This week was filled with connection, learning, and exploration. Highlights included visits to historic sites in Norway, engaging conversations about plants and dyes, and a Viking ship launch event that showcased community spirit. The author cherished moments with friends and appreciated the blend of culture, history, and art.

Tracey Benson
Tracey M Benson |... 70

Drammen AiR Update #5

Hei, hei – here we are and it is Friday! Another week has …

Tracey Benson

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Place-based storytelling for change using izi.travel audio tour app

Scottish Communities Climate Action Network
2022-10-13 08:30
Online

In this workshop, multimedia storytellers Kaska Hempel and Bronwin Patrickson will introduce you to using an izi.travel app for creating a mobile-phone audio tour to tell a compelling, place-based Climate Action story.

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Walkshop ‘De aarde onder je voeten’

Gaby Hutjes stiltecoaching
2022-08-27 00:30
Park Hartenstein, J.J. Talsmalaan, Oosterbeek, The Netherlands

Interactieve walkshop waarin je weer contact maakt met de natuur. De aarde onder je voeten als inspiratie voor laagdrempelige klimaatgesprekken.

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Blake Morris

In 2006 I walked away from theatre. I was concerned about capitalism. I was concerned about participation. I was concerned about climate change. I was concerned about sustainability. I was concerned about spending my days locked in a dark room. Walking was a way to enter the world.
Blake Morris
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scurrifunge

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

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