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​​Talkshop POLDER LAB : Embracing Waters – Steps Towards Osmosis 

2026-09-12 09:00
Online

Polderlab explores wetlands as the living circulatory system of the landscape. Through walking, observation and participation, participants experience the polder as a network of ecological flow, resilience and care.

Made of Walking Prosperpolder
WALC
Happened
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Polder Lab Walk

2026-09-12 13:00
Kieldrecht, Belgium

A collective exploration of the Vingerlingpad, extending the ideas introduced during the morning presentation of NYMPH / LYMPH.

Made of Walking Prosperpolder
WALC
Sound walk SWS26
2026

Walking and Imagination with Regen Gippsland

An audio piece that takes you on a walking event in Far East Gippsland, complete with collecting trash and making musical instruments, and dreaming up ideas for this walking trail.

The Waterlands

Stephen Rutt

Mind the Gaps

Phil Smith

Walking Interlude: Field Sensing (Part 2) – A Meditation

18 Jun, 2026 · Desire Lines Podcast
These meditative tracks are a slightly different kind of walking interlude. Field Sensing (parts 1 & 2) is a two-part meditation produced as part of the Landing Project (⁠www.thelandingproject.com⁠), an art and agriculture project led by Molly Brown an…
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Walking Interlude: Field Sensing (Part 1) – A Meditation

18 Jun, 2026 · Desire Lines Podcast
These meditative tracks are a slightly different kind of walking interlude. Field Sensing (parts 1 & 2) is a two-part meditation produced as part of the Landing Project (www.thelandingproject.com), an art and agriculture project led by Molly Brown and …
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video 2026  

Larch, Spruce, Fir, Birch, Hand, Blast Hole Pond Road, Newfoundland 2007–2026

In association with the Urban Tree Festival, we welcomed Marlene Creates award-winning photographer and long time supporter of walk · listen · create, as our café guest. Marlene discussed 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 boreal forest where she

Sound walk SWS25
2025

Nature Walk

The Great Elm Remembers, Gibbons in The Garden, and Ribosome Retune form an interconnected sound walk through Boston Common and the Public Garden, weaving together memory, ecology, and molecular biology.

video 2025  

WALC Café: Walking towards a home in Greece – a Walking Writers Salon with Julian Hoffman

Video recording of a conversation between Julian Hoffman, author of Lifelines – searching for home in the mountains of Greece, and Annemarie Lopez. When Julian first arrived in Greece’s remote Prespa region, his Greek was “almost non-existent.” Walking became a form of literacy for him—a way to learn the language of the land by tracing the

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post 04 Aug, 2025

The Forest That Followed the Lake: Julian Hoffman’s path to Prespa’s shores

Walking offered what conversation could not yet provide: a way in, a way to begin to belong.

WAC25: Walking Home / Walking in Transition
post 01 Aug, 2025

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

WAC25: Walking Home / Walking in Transition
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Books

How to be feral: Movement practices to re-wild your body

Claire Loussouarn

Ways of Walking

Ann de Forest

Walking pieces

Walking piece SWS25
2025

hedge singing – Hereford Sound/Song Walk

An audio-visual collage in 13 sections created after a participatory sound/song walk which took place in Hereford in February 2025. The work was created from participant's recordings, songs, sounds and stories.

Walking piece Marŝarto23 Winner
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 SWS21
2021

Rain at Mavrovo National Park

This post discusses the concept of Digital Ecology, exploring how technology can be critically adapted to support the natural world rather than harm it. It includes a sound walk piece created from digitally processed field recordings made at Mavrovo National Park, a mountainous area with an artificial lake near Skopje.

Sound walk
2016

Colne Rising

Set in the year 2067, this spoken-word walking performance imagines a future Northern England where rising seas have transformed the A1 into a coastline, flooding areas up to 75 miles inland. Writer and performer Sarah Hymas guides participants through a lyrical exploration of this altered landscape, blending familiar places with speculative environmental change.

Articles on WLC

Curated news 04 Sep, 2025

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

Curated news 12 Jun, 2023

Land Body Ecologies Festival | Wellcome Collection

Explore the deep connections between mental health and ecosystem health in this four-day festival created by Land Body Ecologies (LBE), from teams across India, Uganda, Kenya, Thailand, the UK and the Arctic. Take part and experience performances, food, workshops, music, films and more. On Day One, join a workshop with Chris Watson on field recording…

Articles elsewhere

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Petite chronique auriculaire d’un tarissement chronique

A la suite de nombreuses pérégrinations audio-paysagères à long terme, à porter l’écoute sur des territoires irrigués, j’ai décidé il y a quelques années de synthétiser et de concrétiser une problématique, celle de la vitalité de la présence aquatique dans le paysage. Le projet « Bassins versants, l’oreille fluente », centré autour de la présence acoustique de […]

Gilles Malatray
POINTS D'OUÏE, PAYSAGES SONORES PARTAGÉS
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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 […]

Gilles Malatray
POINTS D'OUÏE, PAYSAGES SONORES PARTAGÉS
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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 […]

Gilles Malatray
POINTS D'OUÏE, PAYSAGES SONORES PARTAGÉS
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Art, Walking and Embodied Ecology: Three voices in resonance

It’s a great pleasure to see the conversation between Rui Antunes, Bruno Caracol, Soazic Guezenec and I published today in … More

Jo Scott
Jo Scott: artist-researcher

Events

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Dance Brolga Dance: Reflections on Mundy Creek Audio Tour

Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts and Mundy Creek Artists Collective
24 Sep - 11 Oct, 2026
Mundy Creek Natureway Garbutt, Garbutt QLD 4814, Australia

A place-based audio walk using stories, memories, ecology and cultural knowledge to reveal living relationships between Mundy Creek, Country and its communities.

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Borderlandscapes in Transition

2026-09-14 14:30
Prosperhoeve, Belgischedreef, Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht, Belgium

Pieter-Jan Meire explores how water, nature restoration, agriculture, industry and international cooperation have transformed the Saeftinghe border landscape. Peter Deckers introduces the heritage of Prosperpolder through a guided exhibition tour.

Made of Walking Prosperpolder
WALC
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A Participatory Walk in Disappearance

2026-09-17 14:30
Erfgoedhuis Hof ter Welle, Anna Piersdreef, Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht, Belgium

A Participatory Walk in Disappearance invites participants to cover the performer's body with materials gathered along the walk. As the body gradually disappears, the performance explores transformation, embodiment, memory and our material relationsh

Made of Walking Prosperpolder
WALC
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Common Ground: Embroidering the Map of Beveren

2026-09-15 08:00
Erfgoedhuis Hof ter Welle, Anna Piersdreef, Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht, Belgium

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

Made of Walking Prosperpolder
WALC

Links

Tamsin Grainger• Walking without a donkey

Walking Without a Donkey is a specialized website dedicated to walking trails and hiking routes in Israel. It provides detailed, map-based guides for a variety of paths, from short strolls to multi-day treks, emphasizing accessibility and accuracy. The site includes GPS tracks, elevation profiles, clear route descriptions, and background information on natural and cultural landmarks encountered along the way, supporting both casual walkers and experienced hikers in planning their excursions. The site also offers insights into the geography, history, and ecology of the regions covered, connecting the physical pathways to their broader cultural and environmental contexts. It serves as a resource for those interested in exploring Israel’s diverse landscapes on foot, such as desert trails, forested areas, and coastal paths. The content is regularly updated and verified, reflecting a focus on reliable, practical information for outdoor walking enthusiasts.
Personal websites

• annakirksmith.com

Anna Kirk-Smith is an interdisciplinary fine artist working with themes of nature, ecology, science and history, with specialist areas of interest being marine biology and geology. Unbridled curiosity and intriguing narratives are the starting points for her work.
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